MDLinx May 13, 2022
In a massive collaborative effort, researchers have compiled the most complete healthy human cell atlas yet, mapping the positions of more than a million cells across 33 different organs.
This incredible feat forms a comprehensive reference to help us better understand human health, diseases, treatments, and vaccines, with the aim to map every cell type in the human body as part of the international Human Cell Atlas.
“You can think of it as a Google Maps of the human body,” Wellcome Sanger Institute cellular geneticist Sarah Teichmann said during a press conference.
“It’s really that street maps view of the individual cells and where they sit in tissues that we’re aiming towards.”
Four studies, involving over 2,300 researchers across 83...
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