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| Jan 12, 2023 at 14:00 | history | notice added | theforestecologist♦ | Needs citation | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 17:17 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @FluidCode Both and neither. Cell lines are considered immortal when they are able to replicate indefinitely in a lab. That doesn't mean they will exist forever, doesn't mean that particular dishes of the cells can't accumulate mutations that make them no longer capable of dividing indefinitely, etc. From the perspective of telomeres only, all you need is to know both empirically and theoretically is that the telomeres do not get any shorter over time to say that telomere length will not be a limiting factor in replication. | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 14:32 | comment | added | FluidCode | Thank you for the answer. But I still have a doubt. Those cells line are eternal by observation (because someone observed that at least few cells in the line have full length telomeres after thousands of duplications) or in theory. | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 11:35 | history | edited | KaPy3141 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2022 at 10:52 | history | answered | KaPy3141 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |