Sentences with phrase «intestine than cells in our body»
In fact, there are more bacteria in our intestine than cells in our body.
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Trillions of bacteria live in human intestines — there are about ten times more bacterial cells in the average person's body than human ones.
«Because the primary Small Intestine Chip recapitulates the physical microenvironment that cells experience inside the human body, such as fluid flow and cyclic peristalsis - like stretching motions, it exhibits a genome - wide gene expression profile that comes closer to its in vivo counterpart than that of the same intestinal cells grown as 3D organoids,» said first - author Magdalena Kasendra, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow on Ingber's team and now Principal Scientist at Emulate, Inc. in Boston.
A healthy human body carries over 100 trillion microorganisms in the intestines, which is ten times greater than the total number of human cells in the body.
60 - 70 % of the cells that make up your body are in the intestines — more cells in your digestive tract than there are in the entire rest of your body.