After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025 ...

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.

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

To count the number of cells in the human body, Ian Hatton at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany and his colleagues analysed over 1500 scientific papers ...

Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international research consortium, have profiled 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people around the world. Working in over 100 countries, the ...

The trillions of cells of the human body must be arranged in precise patterns for tissues and organs to function properly. The HuBMAP initiative 1 aims to generate the technology and resources ...

Together, they will take on a shared moonshot goal: recreating every human cell type in the body. Not only would this be a monumental scientific milestone, ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...