Launch the human cell mapping project of the century

US and British scientists have launched a long-term project to identify and describe all human cells in a large atlas. This human cell map is expected to change human understanding of the human body.

Expected to take place over a decade, the project is currently led by American scientists at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and British scientists at the Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust.

The atlas aims to identify the types and types of cells as well as the priorities of cells in the body's tissues and organs to establish a reference map of a healthy body. This will be an opportunity for global scientific collaboration as expected by scientists who initiated the project.

The Atlas aims to identify the types and types of cells as well as the priorities of cells in tissues.

Scientist Sarah Teichmann from the Sanger Institute said the project will explore new cell types, understanding how cells change in growth and disease.

This human cell map will be a database that allows all scientists around the world to be free to access. The Atlas will also serve to develop medical research before the progression of diseases such as asthma, Alzheimer's (a brain disease that affects memory, thinking or behavior) or cancer.

Cells, the basic biological unit in the human body, allow for the biological understanding of a healthy state and a pathological condition. Now, however, scientists cannot confirm the number of cells, how many types, different types exist, as well as the differentiation between cells of different body parts.

Until recently, scientific knowledge about cells was limited to microscopic observations or genetic analysis. But technological advancement in the human genome has allowed scientists to separate cells of different tissues or organs, analyze cell priorities, measure and identify different types of feces. Deaths are produced by different cell types.