Nathan Richoz University of Cambridge
Biologists are compiling a catalog detailing how each of our cells uses its genes in specific ways.
An international consortium has set itself the goal of creating an atlas of the thousands of millions of cells that make up the human body. The task, started in 2016, is titanic and brings together the work of 3,600 researchers from around the world, brought together in the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project. At the end of 2024, the simultaneous publication of 40 scientific articles in the group’s prestigious journals Nature takes stock of the many advances made and provides an overview of the extraordinary potential of this approach to accelerate medical research and understanding of the human body.
« The effort is comparable to what was done for the sequencing of genome human (unveiled in 2004 after twenty years of collaborative and international research, Editor’s note) », explains Geneviève Almouzni, researcher at the Institut Curie and member of the HCA coordination committee. This new project constitutes in some ways the next stage of this great genetic deciphering…
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