Human Cell Atlas
20 May 202515.6 min readProfessor Muzlifah “Muzz” Haniffa, Head of Cellular Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, takes us on a ride of serendipitous discovery both personal and professional, leading us to a new ambitious vision that will apply learnings from space, time and context, much like life itself, to cells and tissue ecosystems that impact health and disease.
1 May 20247.1 min readLab-grown organoids that mimic human skin are enabling new research into development and disease. Dr April Rose Foster sat down with us to talk about working with the cells and her hopes for the future of research into skin disease.
5 December 20235 min readScientists progress towards mapping and modelling a complex, dynamic and ‘multiscale’ system: the human body.
12 July 20238.9 min readHistologists, cardiologists, immunologists, cell biologists, software developers, bioinformaticians and specialist technicians have worked together to see individual cells in unprecedented detail. Using spatial genomics, they located each cell to its precise location in the heart.
26 June 20237.9 min readChenqu Suo looks back on her PhD, discussing her scientific highlights and her thoughts about what makes the Sanger Institute a special place to study.
2 December 20219.1 min readDr Roser Vento-Tormo tells us about her work to map the cells lining the uterus in space and time, how it epitomises her love of collaboration in science
3 November 20214.5 min readThe connections between the external and internal environments are explored in a new experimental short film ‘Call of the Silent Cell’. The film created was by artists working with scientists in the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) – a global project to map the 37 trillion cells in our bodies, and forms part of a new, online exhibition.
