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Nature 404, 439 (30 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35006520
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PhD student immunology / parasitology
- Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
- Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
Chair; Department of Dermatology
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Stanford, CA 94305
Eternal verities, eternal questions
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It is difficult for us to understand the controversy that was caused early in the twenty-first century by the advent of human immortality. When, in the late 1990s, the Geron Corporation of California and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center announced that they had 'immortalized' human cell cultures, the general public hardly took any notice.
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