Body's bacteria don't outnumber human cells so much after all
New calculations show human cells about equal bacteria in the body.
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New calculations show human cells about equal bacteria in the body.
Consisting of a variety of tissues primed to protect us against invaders, the body's immune system is a churning mass of around 1.8 trillion cells, new research has found.
An adult human's immune system is made up of more than 1 trillion cells. In total, it weighs around 1 kilogram, depending on the size of the person
Faced with a planetary emergency, is deep ecological transformation, a ‘megamorphosis’ of modern society, still a possibility?
By Gwynne Dyer – 'At least half the current agricultural land on the planet, more likely two-thirds of it, has to be re-wilded in order to restore the world’s principal carbon sink and to preserve the biodiversity on which the entire ecosystem depends.