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Map all the cells in the human body

A few tens of thousands of billions of cells, it doesn’t rank anyway. And in your body, much more than in your closets, they must be organized according to a precise pattern in order for the tissues and organs to function properly. But what is this pattern? Five centuries after Vesalius, the father of modern anatomy, a consortium of American researchers embarked in 2018 on a massive project that aims to push back the frontiers of anatomical knowledge. RNA, proteins, etc.). That’s 400 scientists from more than 40 institutions and more than $200 million over eight years in the National Institutes of Health’s Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP). The acquired data and developed tools are placed in a special online portal.

This Wednesday, the first maps were created…

Source: Le Figaro

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