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How many cells are there in the human body and how many microorganisms are there in a human body?

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The amount of cells in the human body is almost impossible to count, but it is estimated there is about 300 trillion cells in the human body.

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As of 2014, it was often reported in popular media and in the scientific literature that there are about 10 times as many microbial cells in the human body than there are human cells; this figure was based on estimates that the human microbiome includes around 100 trillion bacterial cells and an adult human
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