The phrase "a maximum life span" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the longest duration that an organism or object is expected to live or function.
Example: "The average dog has a maximum life span of around 15 years, depending on the breed and care it receives."
Alternatives: "a maximum lifespan" or "the longest life expectancy."
With a maximum life span of 60 hours, such optical media has been a solution in search of a problem.
Scientists in Italy who have studied the fish say it has a maximum life span of less than 12 weeks, making it the shortest-lived vertebrate known.
The exact duration of human life is unknown, although there is presumably a maximum life span for the human race established in the genetic material.
If any such drug were to work in humans the same way that this diet of 30percentt less than normal calories works in laboratory rodents, people would start enjoying a maximum life span of 170 years, most of it in perfect health.
Daily subcutaneous injection of rapamycin resulted in a maximum life span that was increased by more than 300%, an unprecedented finding in a disease model where no effective interventions existed.
That's just that there's a maximum life span.
In comparison to those results, our maximum separation of three years appears to be a rather long period; however, it represents only a fraction of a raven's maximum life span of 25 30 years in the wild [ 27].
We expect that, if anything, this should increase the slope of a relationship between maximum life span as a function of mean life span: short-lived species invest more in early reproduction and therefore may senesce at younger ages relative to their mean life span compared to long-lived species.
"That is a generation or two in a sturgeon's maximum life span".
The number of repeats in a telomere determines the maximum life span of a cell, since each time a cell divides, multiple repeats are lost.
Using an end-point method (maximum life span) to measure a rate (senescence) is obviously less accurate or informative than measuring the rate itself.
