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.
They actually broke down the number of cells by organs and cell types, going through the literature available to come up with a detailed list of volumes and densities in everything from intestines to knees. So, for example, there are 50 billion fat cells in the average body, and 2 billion heart muscle cells. Adding all those up, they got 37.2 million. (This doesnât include any of the millions of microbes living on you, by the way.) The authors point out that this isnât simply a good pub trivia question.