How many cells in a human?
L.H. Bell
lhb at s-crim1.dl.ac.uk
Thu Sep 9 05:00:17 EST 1993
A gram of cells grown in culture contains something on the order of
1.0E9 cells. Therefore 70 kg of cells (=1 human) would contain something
like 7.0E13 cells. However there are a lot (=/- quite a few) of red blood
cells which are considerably smaller than average, so this number may be low.
^^^^^
just to be pedantic but red blood corpuscles shouldn't count because they are
corpuscles and not cells (no nucleus).
Lachlan Bell
seqnet
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