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Unread 11/11/2014, 01:12 AM   #378
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When it's cultured it's reported to divide exponentially on day 10 from culture start, to be stationary on day 18 and senescent on day 25, not being able to divide anymore.
This would indicate that individual cells have at least a months lifespan.
I may have read this wrong and probably should have referred to a culture instead of individual cells.
One can image tracking a single rapidly splitting cell is problematic.

I've read a lot of articles on dinos, but there are still so many unanswered basic questions.
The scientist I've emailed don't reply and the dinos are happy and they prosper.


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