Ambitious ‘Human Cell Atlas’ Aims To Catalog Every Type Of Cell In The Body

(By Karen Weintraub for NPR)

If you flip open a biology textbook or do a quick search on Google, you’ll quickly learn that there are a few hundred types of cells in the human body.

“And it’s true, because in broad categories, a few hundred is a good characterization,” says Aviv Regev, a core member of the Broad Institute, a genetics research center in Cambridge, Mass.

But look a little closer, as Regev has been doing, and a far more complicated picture emerges. Continue reading article here…

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