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Mature red blood cells are not capable of dividing, as they do not possess nuclei. Therefore, it is not possible that red blood cells will divide as they travel along our blood vessels. New red blood cells are produced in the red bone marrow of long bones in adults, not from the cell division of mature red blood cells.

"RBCs are terminally differentiated; that is, they can never divide. They live about 120 days and then are ingested by phagocytic cells in the liver and spleen."

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