Science is on a mission to map all 37 trillion cells in your body
Building up a 3D atlas of human cells will help scientists better understand how they work
By Emma Bryce
Friday 15 December 2017
The human body contains more than 37 trillion cells - and Sarah Teichmann wants to map them all. She's the pioneer behind the Human Cell Atlas, an international bid to build a 3D map of all our cells. A catalogue of these foundational units of life would give researchers unparalleled power to understand and treat human disease - "laying a foundation for a new era of precision medicine", says Teichmann, head of cellular genetics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/sarah-teichmann-3d-mapping-human-cell-atlas
