Human Cell Atlas
20 May 2025Professor 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.
30 April 20215.3 min readProfessor Muzlifah Haniffa shares her thoughts achieving large-scale science.
2 July 20209.6 min readWe spoke to the Head of Cellular Genetics at the Sanger Institute about her life, career and the Human Cell Atlas.
8 April 20209.2 min readThe Human Cell Atlas is being used to guide future research into human development, biology, health, and disease.
11 February 20206.6 min readDr Kerstin Meyer, Principal Staff Scientist at the Sanger Institute, explains what it’s like to work on a such a huge, collaborative endeavour
14 May 20184.6 min readSingle cell RNA sequencing data can be used to identify cell types. Martin Hemberg and Vladimir Kiselev explain how their new scmap method can help the Human Cell Atlas initiative by analysing this data.
6 April 20184.1 min read06.04.18 Valentine Svensson explains how the new computational method SpacialDE interprets single-cell data to identify which genes are switched on in different locations, allowing researchers to zoom into the structures of tissues.
