Hayflick limit

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Aging Biology subtree

Hayflick & Moorhead 1961: normal human diploid fibroblasts undergo a finite number of population doublings (~50) in culture before entering irreversible replicative senescence. Overturned the prevailing Carrel dogma that somatic cells…

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