Salk

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  1. 1
    A surname.

    "A study published in 2016 by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, showed signs of aging could be expunged in genetically aged mice, exposed for a short time to four main Yamanaka factors, without erasing the cells’ identity."

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jonas edward salk

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"Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952."

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