MISSION
To create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells—the fundamental units of life—as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.
HUMAN CELL ATLAS: A MAP OF HUMAN CELLS
The cell is the core unit of the human body—the key to understanding the biology of health and the ways in which molecular dysfunction leads to disease. Yet our characterization of the hundreds of types and subtypes of cells in the human body is limited, based partly on techniques that have limited resolution and classifications that do not always map neatly to each other. Genomics has offered a systematic approach, but it has largely been applied in bulk to many cell types at once—masking critical differences between cells—and in isolation from other valuable sources of data.
Recent advances in single-cell genomic analysis of cells and tissues have put systematic, high-resolution and comprehensive reference maps of all human cells within reach. In other words, we can now realistically envision a human cell atlas to serve as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.
To create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells—the fundamental units of life—as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.
HUMAN CELL ATLAS: A MAP OF HUMAN CELLS
The cell is the core unit of the human body—the key to understanding the biology of health and the ways in which molecular dysfunction leads to disease. Yet our characterization of the hundreds of types and subtypes of cells in the human body is limited, based partly on techniques that have limited resolution and classifications that do not always map neatly to each other. Genomics has offered a systematic approach, but it has largely been applied in bulk to many cell types at once—masking critical differences between cells—and in isolation from other valuable sources of data.
Recent advances in single-cell genomic analysis of cells and tissues have put systematic, high-resolution and comprehensive reference maps of all human cells within reach. In other words, we can now realistically envision a human cell atlas to serve as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.
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| 07.10.2026 | Biohub, DOE, NIH And Partners Commit $1.8 Billion To Build AI-Ready Biology Data | Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and private-sector partners have announced a coordinated $1.8 billion commitment of funding, data, computing resources and measurement technology to create foundationa... |
| 07.10.2026 | Zuckerberg’s Biohub lands Google and U.S. Government backing for $1.8 billion AI biology push | Mark Zuckerberg’s Biohub has pulled Google, Meta, and the U.S. government into a $1.8 billion effort to generate the biological data needed to train AI systems that can predict how living cells behave. The project, called the Virtual Biolog... |
| 26.03.2025 | Complete Genomics and BioTuring: A New Era in Spatial Biology | In the bustling world of genomics, innovation is the lifeblood. Complete Genomics, a trailblazer in DNA sequencing, is making waves once again. At the NextGen Omics & Spatial Biology Conference, they unveiled a partnership with BioTurin... |
| 25.03.2025 | Complete Genomics Announces Commercial Partnership with Human Cell Atlas to Offer its Members Stereo-seq Spatial Transcriptomics at NextGen Omics & Spatial Biology Conference | SAN JOSE, Calif., March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Complete Genomics, a leading innovator in genomic sequencing, announced at the NextGen Omics & Spatial Biology Conference that it has entered a commercial partnership with Human Cell Atla... |
| 25.11.2024 | Атлас человека. 37 триллионов клеток собраны в первый черновик | Восемь лет назад был создан консорциум Human Cell Atlas (HCA), который поставил перед собой чрезвычайно амбициозную задачу — картировать все тело человека, а это около 37,2 триллионов клеток. И сейчас ученые сообщают, что атлас сейчас на ст... |
| 07.11.2024 | MGI Tech Partners with the Human Cell Atlas to Further Advance Worldwide Human Cell Mapping Efforts | SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MGI Tech Co., Ltd. ("MGI"), a company committed to building core tools and technologies that drive innovation in life science, today announced a commercial partnership with Human Cell ... |
| 18.06.2024 | Singleron Biotechnologies partners with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) to enhance access to single cell analysis globally | COLOGNE, Germany, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Singleron Biotechnologies announced a partnership with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) to help accelerate the adoption of single cell sequencing globally. Singleron will facilitate access to its si... |
| 12.10.2023 | Cell atlases of the human brain presented in Science | Cell atlases of the human brain presented in Science Thu, Oct 12, 2023 20:00 CET Report this content In two parallel projects, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been involved in creating the most comprehensive atlases of human brain... |
| 27.04.2023 | Parse Biosciences and Human Cell Atlas Partner to Help Map Human Cells | The HCA has already provided transformational work to the single cell community. Parse’s technology will assist this important work with unprecedented scale, opening up new possibilities for what is achievable in scientific research. SEATTL... |
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