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- Abstract:
This article focuses on the immortality of some parts of animals or plants that are maintained in tissue cultures. The animal connective tissue cells called fibroblasts, for example, can be kept in tissue cultures so that they can be provided with food, and waste products removed, and can continue to grow vigorously for indefinite periods of time. Although the life span of domestic chickens is but a few years, chick fibroblasts placed in tissue cultures decades ago can still grow, and that barring some technical accident to the cultures will continue to enjoy perennial youth forever.
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