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Your body is made of roughly 37 trillion cells. That is the estimate a 2013 study reached by adding up cell counts organ by organ and cell type by cell type.
ILLUSTRATION · AIA 2013 study estimated the adult human body contains about 37.2 trillion cells.
E. Bianconi and colleagues published the estimate in Annals of Human Biology in 2013. Instead of relying on a single rough calculation, they compiled current estimates of cell numbers for a variety of organs and cell types.
Those partial data add up to a total of 3.72 x 10^13 cells, about 37.2 trillion. The authors write that knowing the total cell number is important from a cultural, biological, medical and comparative modeling point of view.
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