Research led by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Canada, has found that human cells seem to follow a homeostasis pattern of cell size and count across the entire organism.
largely influence cell counts. Each cell type typically maintains a characteristic size range, which is uniform throughout an individual's development, and the same holds across mammalian species.
The observed patterns of an inverse relationship between cell size and count are similar to Zipf's law and Taylor's law, statistical principles of scaling that are recurrent across nature in everything from the distribution of bacteria in the soil to the population of fish in the ocean and is even found in linguistic word use and music.
Taylor's law states that the variance in the number of individuals within a group scales with the mean of that measurement raised to a certain exponent. Taylor's law is seen in relation to the size and count variations across different cell types. The study finds that the coefficient of variation in cell size remains approximately constant across cell types, implying that cell mass variance scales with the mean cell mass raised to a certain power.
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