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.
1 A healthy adult human has between 4,500 and 11,000 white blood cells per cubic millimetre of blood. Fluctuations in white cell number occur during the day; lower values are obtained during rest and higher values during exercise.