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Is there an unambigous answer to the question: Whether the aging program exists or not?

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The article discusses up-to-date viewpoints on the reasons of aging in respect to their compliance with the concepts of programmed or stochastic aging.

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Anisimov, 2010, published in Rossiiskii Khimicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 10–20.

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Anisimov, V.N. Is there an unambigous answer to the question: Whether the aging program exists or not?. Russ J Gen Chem 80, 1395–1406 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070363210070352

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