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Richard J Basart

One thing that I didn't hear discussed was cell age. I understand that even though an organism is cloned, it is the same cellular age as the donor cells. I have heard that some cells in the human body will only replace themselves about 50 times, so would not an infant from middle aged cells have a shorter than normal lifetime? Its just something I was wondering about.

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