Fierce Biotech July 7, 2023
By Helen Floersh
For the past seven years, researchers around the world have been carefully mapping all the types, genes and proteins of every cell in the human body. Called the Human Cell Atlas, the project aims to create a “Google Map” of tissues that will be used as a guide for everything from diagnosing disease to developing new treatments.
Now, a team led by scientists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of California Irvine and Baylor School of Medicine has unveiled its contribution to the effort: the largest atlas of cells in healthy human breasts. Called the
Human Cell Breast Atlas, the open-source guide contains biological data on all the cells present in mammary tissue. A...
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