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Blueprint for extraordinary Human Cell Atlas unveiled

02-Nov-2017

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Atlas will be a comprehensive collection of reference maps of the human body.

Will enable a deeper understanding of human health.

First draft will map between 30 and 100 million cells from several organs and tissues.

Gene expression profiles from the first one million immune cells will be available in a public online resource.

Long-term goal is to profile 10 billion cells covering all tissues, organs and systems.

The study was published in the Nature journal.

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Aviv Regev

Professor of Biology and Computational Biologist at MIT.

Nature

Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

Sarah Teichmann

Head of Cellular Genetics at Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Center for genomic discovery.

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