How long can a cell live?

Factual Questions
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How long can a cell live withoug undergoing cell division?

Is there any way to give a meaningful age to a cell that has undergone cell division?

2

A call can last as long as the two people feel like talking.

Don’t know about cells, though. :smiley:

I flagged this so a Mod can fix the title so our resident biologists can find the question.

3

Thanks, I’m having real problems with missplaced vowels recently. Must be something wrong with my bran :slight_smile:

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It depends which cell. One reason that you don’t hear about heart cancer a lot is that the heart cells don’t divide as often as skin.

This is why Skin, and colon cancer are more common. They are constantly dividing and replacing themselves. This is why the chances for cancer are greater, cause the DNA has more opportunity to mutate

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Thanks RCGDC, do you know how long a heart cell can live without cell division, is it days, weeks, years? And what about non-human even no animal cells? Do some cells last the entire mature life of the lifeform they are part of without once dividing? Is this something currently unknown to science?