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Empirical elemental formula for biomass Bacteria Escherichia coli C:H(1.77):O(0.49):N(0.24) N/A 101800 von Stockar, U. Liu,...
Overall mass of bacteria in the body Human Homo sapiens ~0.2 (~0.3% of overall body weight) kg 113003 Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo...
Estimations of periplasmic volume from distributions of different solutes in suspensions of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 Bacteria Salmonella typhimurium Table - link N/A 108473 Stock JB, Rauch B, Roseman...
Diameter of neutrophil Human Homo sapiens 8.4 (7.3-9.7 Table - link) µm 100510 Downey GP, Doherty DE...
"Rule of thumb" for cell mass Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 60 pg 101795 "Physical Biology of...
Total cross sectional area of capillaries Human Homo sapiens 6000 (Table - link) cm^2 110559 Lauralee Sherwood, Human...
Solubility of carbon dioxide in water at 25˚C and 1 atm partial pressure Generic 0.759 (Table - link) Dissolved CO2 volume/volume H2O 106207 Dean JA, Lange's handbook...
Average mass of bacterium in stool Human Homo sapiens 4.6 pg 112998 Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo...
Correlation of OD to cell dry weight Bacteria Escherichia coli CDW=0.56хOD660g/liter N/A 108127 Hannes Link, Bernd Anselment...
Cell concentration for culture with OD600 of 0.1 Bacteria Escherichia coli 1e+8 cell/ml 100985 Short protocols in molecular...
Ionic radius of Mg2+ Generic 0.65 (Table - link) Å 109743 Maguire ME, Cowan JA....
Reaction time Human Homo sapiens simple reaction times averaged 0.220sec: recognition reaction times averaged 0.384sec sec 110799 Laming, D. R. J. 1968....
KM (Michaelis constant) of some enzymes Generic Table - link N/A 105085 Stryer et al, Biochemistry...
Diameter of NIH/3T3 embryonic fibroblast cell Mouse Mus musculus 18 μm 108905 http://www.invitroge...
Number of lysosomes per cell Mammals 50 to 1,000 Lysosomes/cell 107483 Editor: Dr. Robert A. Meyers...
Minimum generation time, optimum growth temperature and predicted origin of replication of 214 bacteria bacteria Table - link N/A 105462 Vieira-Silva S, Rocha...
Surface Area of Human Skin Human Homo sapiens 1.6-1.8 link m^2 100578 The Physics Factbook™...
Rule of thumb for time it takes a metabolite (lactate) to diffuse across the cell Bacteria Escherichia coli 1e-3 sec 104674 Calculated according...
Weight of prostate at different ages Human Homo sapiens 40-49year old (yo) 28.2g: 50-59yo 30.8g: 60-70yo 35g: older than 75yo 46.2 grams 115555 Tomasetti C, Li L, Vogelstein...
Size of HEK (Human Embryonic Kidney) 293 cell Human Homo sapiens 11 to 15 Table - link μm 108918 EMD Millipore: Intro...