While blood cells live in a convenient, easily studied liquid,
most other cell types have been harder to analyze in the laboratory.
Like most other cells, the cells that make up each of our roughly 10,000 taste buds replace themselves over and over throughout our lives.
Unlike
most other cells in the human body, heart cells do not have the ability to self - repair or regenerate effectively, making heart attack and heart failure severe and debilitating.
While most other cells in the body can survive at least temporarily on alternate sources of energy, the CNS must have glucose, of which carbohydrates are the primary source.
The cDNA insert from this phage hybridized to messenger RNA found in B lymphocytes, but not in
most other cells.