• Question: how many cells in our skin roughly

    Asked by anon-174798 to Alex on 11 Jun 2018.
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      Alex Seeney answered on 11 Jun 2018:


      Cool question! Really gets you thinking. Cells come in all different shapes and sizes, which makes estimating something like that quite tricky. However, it looks like some scientists have come up with an estimate of about 35 billion skin cells in a human body – a pretty big number!

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