On the Verge of Immortality, Or Are We Stuck with Death? A New Direction For Research Could Provide the Answers--and More
In 1962 eminent biologist Leonard Hayflick discovered that normal human fetal cells replicate a limited number of times. This phenomenon promptly acquired the moniker the "Hayflick Limit." A 2016 study at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine came up with a similar human lifespan limit of 115 years. But is the Hayflick Limit fixed, or is it a biological barrier that can be penetrated? Hayflick laments that two to three percent at most of the $1.27 billion that the National Institute of Aging (NIA) spends annually on aging research is allocated to fundamental biological research.
Source: Huffington Post January 13, 2017 16:24 UTC
