AI-generated image. Credit: Midjourney/ZME Science. How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about 100 picograms each. A single E. coli bacterium weighs only one picogram, about 60 million times lighter than a grain of sand. That such a measurement …
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