Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Hay·flick (hā'flik), Leonard, 20th-century U.S. microbiologist. See:Hayflick limit. Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012 Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page...
Almost 40 years ago, Leonard Hayflick discovered that cultured normal human cells have limited capacity to divide, after which they become senescent — a phenomenon now known as the ‘Hayflick limit’. Hayflick's findings were strongly challenged at the time, and continue to be questioned in a ...
In this Journal club, Meritxell Huch recalls a dogma postulated by Hayflick in 1961, that the capacity for propagating primary epithelial cells with normal ploidy is limited — a theory that persisted until the advent of organoid cultures.
Hayflick limit (redirected fromHayflick, Leonard) Medical Hayflick limit [′hā‚flik ‚lim·ət] (physiology) The finite replicative capacity of normal somatic cells. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ...