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Leonard Hayflick
August 27 , 2024
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- Biomedical researcher Leonard Hayflick passed away recently.
- He has discovered that normal somatic cells can divide (and thus reproduce) only a certain number of times.
- He has discovered that cell division in somatic (non-reproductive) cells stopped after roughly 40-60 times.
- This means that there is an in-built cellular clock in the human body (and that of other organisms) which determines how long one can live.
- This “ultimate Hayflick limit”, is around 125 years for humans, beyond which no amount of diet, exercise, or even genetic tweaking against diseases can extend the human lifespan.
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