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REFERENCES

Spalding, K. L., Bhardwaj, R. D., Buchholz, B. A., Druid, H., & Frisén, J. (2005). Retrospective birth dating of cells in humans. Cell, 122(1), 133-143. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867405004083

Bhardwaj, R. D., Curtis, M. A., Spalding, K. L., Buchholz, B. A., Fink, D., Björk-Eriksson, T., ... & Frisén, J. (2006). Neocortical neurogenesis in humans is restricted to development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,103(33), 12564-12568. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1567918

Ernst, A., & Frisén, J. (2015). Adult neurogenesis in humans-common and unique traits in mammals. PLoS Biol, 13(1), e1002045. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306487

Lynnerup, N., Kjeldsen, H., Heegaard, S., Jacobsen, C., & Heinemeier, J. (2008). Radiocarbon dating of the human eye lens crystallines reveal proteins without carbon turnover throughout life. PLoS One, 3(1), e1529. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001529

Recent review article: Bergmann, O., Spalding, K. L., & Frisén, J. (2015). Adult neurogenesis in humans. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 7(7), a018994. http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/7/7/a018994.full

What is radiocarbon dating and how does it work? http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-radiocarbon-dating-and-how-does-it-work-9690
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