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REVERSE transcriptases introduce new possibilities not only in tumour research but in theoretical models of ageing. It would be of immediate interest to know whether finite clones lack, and virus-transformed “immortal” clones possess, enzymes of this sort.
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COMFORT, A. Reverse Transcriptases and Ageing. Nature 231, 530 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231530a0
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