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It would also be more informative to me to to see as percentage of cells as I don't have a sense of the scale of the cells-in-the-body.
by karmakaze 3y ago
It would also be more informative to me to to see as percentage of cells as I don't have a sense of the scale of the cells-in-the-body.
- bartvk 3y agoOr maybe a relative scale. 1.8T cells dedicated to defending, compared to X cells dedicated to defecating, or Y cells dedicated to digesting. All joking aside, National Geographic says there's about 37 trillion cells in a 70 kg (154 pounds) human body. So that'd mean 5% of those are dedicated to defending. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-many-cells-are-in-your-body https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-many-...
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- jodrellblank 3y agoThe article opens with that: "For the first time, a study has measured the size of the immune system: if it were an organ, it would weigh more than a kilo and represents 0.2% of all human cells"