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.
It is estimated that 500 to 1,000 species of bacteria live in the human gut Bacterial cells are much smaller than human cells, and it is often said that there are at least ten times as many bacteria as human cells in the body, although the actual ratio has not been strictly defined.here is a point of view that human body contains approximately 1014 bacteria cells, while the number of human cells has been calculated to be at least 3.72 * 10 13. The mass of microorganisms are estimated to account for 1-3% total body mass.