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An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

A new and freely available Human Gut Microbiome Atlas could help researchers and health care professionals around the world ...

The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to ...

Investigating how mutations in tumors alter DNA’s 3D structure—and subsequently, regulatory sequences called enhancers—can ...

More information: Ramezani M et al, A genome-wide atlas of cell morphology, Nature Methods (2025). DOI: ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

The Human Protein Atlas (HPA) i s an impressive open-access resource that offers scientists deep biological insights beyond the human genome. Launched in 2003, the HPA’s aim was to map of all the ...

Like the first geographic atlases, or the first published human genome, the first human cell atlas will be incomplete at its release, but with plans to revise it repeatedly. “We are at the beginning,” ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.