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Cells grown in laboratory culture dishes undergo only a fixed number of division before dying. The number of possible divisions drops depending on the age of the donor organism. This phenomenon is called the

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Hayflick limit

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The Hayflick limit, or Hayflick phenomenon, is the number of times a normal human cell population will divide before cell division stops. It was postulated by Leonard Hayflick in 1961,

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