• Question: Do you grow new white blood cells every day? Every when do you grow new ones?

    Asked by Alexiadepablo to Sian, Max, Lizzie, Francis, Ben on 12 Mar 2018.
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      Ben Mulhearn answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      New white blood cells are grown every single second you are alive. For example, you have around 400 white blood cells per DROP of blood, so that’s a lot of cells! Because cells eventually die, they are constantly being replaced by being made in the bone marrow.

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