• Question: Is their a genetic disorder that makes you have a limited amount of cells?

    Asked by NAZ252 to Reka on 15 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 15 Nov 2016:


      There are a lot of disorders that somehow slow down or even stop cells dividing – these often result in a miscarriage so a person with such a disease is not even born.

      Also, our cells naturally reach a stage after which they can’t divide any longer, even though we’ve been healthy our whole lives – until we figure out how we can stop cells from naturally losing their ability to divide, we’ll not be able to live forever!

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