Leonard Hayflick - The global distribution of WI-38 (127/187)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology
To hear more of Leonard Hayflick’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yReRalXkFlo&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFyL_YYxHe6RzAARP6eJ_8wC Born in 1928, Leonard Hayflick is known for his research in cell biology, virus vaccine development, and mycoplasmology. His discovery that human cells divide for a limited number of times in vitro has been named after him as the Hayflick limit. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2011] TRANSCRIPT: The subsequent events centred around all of the activities necessary to have the cells distributed for use. The WHO funded me to visit several countries in Europe and also to establish another bank of cells in Moscow for distribution among Iron Curtain countries, which was not easy to do, through Frank Perkins' WI-38 repository at MRC in London. Frank distributed cultures within the UK and within Western European countries, and also South America as well as Mexico, I should say.
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