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Many types of human-cells don't abide by the classic Hayflick limit, including HeLa cells, cancer cells, and gametes. This brings up the point: if the cells ca
by fanzhang 8y ago
Many types of human-cells don't abide by the classic Hayflick limit, including HeLa cells, cancer cells, and gametes.
This brings up the point: if the cells can indeed divide indefinitely, which even stem cells cannot, then aren't these effectively cancer cells / made cancerified? Perhaps this was done on purpose independently to make the cell culture easier to work with, but that should have been mentioned.
- thomasfedb 8y agoThey might share some properties with cancer cells, but probably not all the key characteristics. For example, one key feature of a cancer cell is that it ignores signals that would causes normal cells to stop growing or apoptose (die).