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What is the expected remaining life duration of a cell in the $t\to\infty$ limit?

This is a Bellman-Harris process. See Chapter VI of The Theory of Branching Processes by Harris, and in particular Section 24. It analyzes ages, but I imagine you can get remaining lifetimes from that....
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What is the expected remaining life duration of a cell in the $t\to\infty$ limit?

I don't agree. I think the exponential growth biases it towards younger individuals, that is, lots of newborns. My back of the envelope calculation is the following. Suppose the distribution of ...
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