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61
Citations
37295
World Ranking
11081
National Ranking
4790

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Leonard Hayflick is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. The scientific work focuses primarily on the fields of aging and reproductive medicine, with specific attention to genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms as well as science, research, and medicine.

Recent notable publications include:

  • The greatest risk factor for the leading cause of death is ignored, published in 2020 in Biogerontology
  • Don't abandon 14-day limit on embryo research, it makes sense, published in 2021 in Nature

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leonard Hayflick have included Ronald M. Green and Michael D. West.

Among scholarly venues, the primary publication outlets have been Biogerontology and Nature.

The research topics covered are:

  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Science, Research, and Medicine

Subfields of investigation include:

  • Aging
  • Reproductive Medicine

Leonard Hayflick was awarded the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1986.

Best Publications

  • The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.

    L. Hayflick;P.S. Moorhead

  • THE LIMITED IN VITRO LIFETIME OF HUMAN DIPLOID CELL STRAINS

    Leonard Hayflick

  • A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century

    S. Jay Olshansky;Douglas J. Passaro;Ronald C. Hershow;Jennifer Layden

  • GROWTH ON ARTIFICIAL MEDIUM OF AN AGENT ASSOCIATED WITH ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA AND ITS IDENTIFICATION AS A PPLO

    R. M. Chanock;L. Hayflick;M. F. Barile

  • Tissue cultures and mycoplasmas.

    Hayflick L

  • How and Why We Age

    Leonard Hayflick

  • The future of ageing

    Leonard Hayflick

  • Biological aging is no longer an unsolved problem.

    Leonard Hayflick

  • The cell biology of human aging.

    Leonard Hayflick

  • Mortality and immortality at the cellular level. A review.

    Hayflick L

  • Theories of biological aging

    Leonard Hayflick

  • Entropy explains aging, genetic determinism explains longevity, and undefined terminology explains misunderstanding both.

    Leonard Hayflick

  • VARIATION IN THE LIFE-SPAN OF CLONES DERIVED FROM HUMAN DIPLOID CELL STRAINS

    J. R. Smith;L. Hayflick

  • Position Statement on Human Aging

    S. Jay Olshansky;Leonard Hayflick;Bruce A. Carnes

  • Mycoplasma Species of Man

    Leonard Hayflick;Leonard Hayflick;Robert M. Chanock;Robert M. Chanock

  • No truth to the fountain of youth.

    S Jay Olshansky;Leonard Hayflick;Bruce A Carnes

  • Senescent Human Diploid Cells in Culture: Survival, DNA Synthesis and Morphology

    Toshiharu Matsumura;Zenaida Zerrudo;Leonard Hayflick

  • The establishment of a line (WISH) of human amnion cells in continuous cultivation.

    L. Hayflick

  • Motion of fatty acid spin labels in the plasma membrane of mycoplasma.

    Shlomo Rottem;Wayne L. Hubbell;Leonard Hayflick;Harden M. McConnell

  • Aging under glass.

    Leonard Hayflick

Frequent Co-Authors

Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eric J. Stanbridge
Eric J. Stanbridge University of California, Irvine
David B. Allison
David B. Allison Indiana University
David S. Ludwig
David S. Ludwig Boston Children's Hospital
Robert T. Schimke
Robert T. Schimke Stanford University
Robert M. Chanock
Robert M. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Soldano Ferrone
Soldano Ferrone Harvard University
Hilary Koprowski
Hilary Koprowski Thomas Jefferson University
Harry Eagle
Harry Eagle National Institutes of Health
Shmuel Razin
Shmuel Razin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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