Post by Ranan Aktas, MD

We are truly looking at just a drop in the ocean. 🌊 Did you know that the average human body contains roughly 30 to 37 trillion cells? 🤯 I recently came across this fascinating paper in PNAS exploring human cell count and size distribution, and it really makes you pause and marvel at the sheer complexity of the human body: https://lnkd.in/etqmgGZf 🔬 Looking at the image from our lab, you’re seeing a human liver spheroid. Even though they are grown in a 3D environment outside the body, these thousands of beautiful cells come together, function as a team, and perform some of the complex tasks of real liver tissue. But when you compare a few thousand cells in a petri dish to the trillions working inside us every second, it hits you: we are truly looking at just a drop in the ocean. 🌊 We are making incredible progress in the lab every day—even pushing the boundaries of single-cell analysis—but moments like this are a humbling reminder of just how much we still have to learn about human biology. What a journey it is to study it! 👇 #SpatialBiology #TissueEngineering #Organoids #Spheroids #NAMs #Biotech #Cell #CellBiology #Human #Microscopy #PrecisionMedicine #PersonalizedMedicine #Liver #Hepatocyte

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