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Hayflick limit

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Hayflick limit [′hā‚flik ‚lim·ət]
(physiology)
The finite replicative capacity of normal somatic cells.
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That observation emerged from the study of immortal cells, which have escaped the Hayflick limit and can proliferate indefinitely in test tubes.
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Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, discoverer of the aging process in human cells and the man for whom the Hayflick Limit is named.
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