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The Cell Biology of Human Aging

When normal human cells grow in laboratory glassware, they eventually lose the ability to function and divide. The timing of this loss may well represent the limit of the human life span

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 242 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Cell Biology of Human Aging” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 242 No. 1 (), p. 58
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0180-58