News about Joan Claybrook, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.o the Editor: John Tierney suggests that the 1978 fuel-economy standards made vehicles lighter and thus less safe. But the fact is that after the standards took effect, 85 percent of fuel economy gains came from gas-saving technologies, not...
Scientists concluded that the average human body contains approximately 37.2 trillion cells! Of course, your body will have more or fewer cells than that total, depending upon how your size compares to the average human being, but that's a good starting point for estimating the number of cells in your own body.
Please note that the answer listed here - over 400,094,800 - refers to the number of cells in the human brain. The 100 billion figure, mentioned repeatedly in the sources quoted above, refers to neurons or nerve cells, which are only one kind of brain cell.