An antiapoptotic role for telomerase RNA in human immune cells independent of telomere integrity or telomerase enzymatic activity.

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Published in Blood on October 15, 2014

Authors

Francesca S Gazzaniga1, Elizabeth H Blackburn1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

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