An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

Eight years on from the formation of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which set out with the hugely ambitious task of ...

The Human Cell Atlas project maps human cells to understand biology, address global health disparities, and advance ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase ...

A new method to profile gene activity in the living human brain has been developed by researchers at FutureNeuro, the ...

The mapping of the human genome in 2001 sparked an explosion of work to similarly decipher the DNA of other animals. The ...

“However, with the availability of whole genome sequencing and the advancement of ancient DNA research, we can now question and reframe these long-held ideas, revealing a much more nuanced and ...

Another example of the Human Cell Atlas in action came during the Covid pandemic when the detailed maps of the body allowed ...

The authors presented a new MNase-based proximity ligation method called MChIP-C, allowing for the measurement of protein-mediated chromatin interactions at single-nucleosome resolution on a ...