Leonard Hayflick
Leonard Hayflick · Science & Medicine
Microbiologist who discovered the Hayflick limit on the number of times human cells divide.
1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 2024, Sea Ranch, California, USA
United States
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Leonard Hayflick was an American microbiologist who discovered the 'Hayflick limit', the finding that normal human cells can divide only a finite number of times before senescence, overturning the belief that cultured cells were immortal and founding the modern biology of aging. He also developed the widely used WI-38 cell strain for vaccine production. He was born in Philadelphia to a Jewish family.
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Microbiologist who discovered the Hayflick limit on the number of times human cells divide.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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