However, there were "immortal cells" buried within us all, so-called stem cells that could replicate forever, unchanged.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
Along the way he'd become interested in something known as the Hayflick limit-which concerned the number of times a cell could divide before it became senescent and ceased to replicate.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
Strange as such an idea may be, it is easy and pellucid compared with the hypothesis of Pangenesis-still more when we remember that this complex germ, which is a lion or a horse in small-itself the elaboration of aeons of Evolution-can replicate itself with ease and rapidity, reproducing in adjacent pabulum a "cosmos" which differs in degree, not in kind, from that described in the story of the Six Days.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell