It is the most detailed image of a human cell to date, obtained via radiography, nuclear MRI, and cryoelectronic microscopy." As we'll explain below, that description is completely inaccurate.

Regev compared scientific knowledge of cell biology before the Human Cell Atlas initiative with a “15 th century map.” “Now, years later, the resolution of the map is a lot higher,” she said.

"This photo is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using X-ray, NMR, and cryo-electron microscopy data sets," reads the caption of a Facebook post shared Nov. 27.

In fact, it is not even a real image of a human cell. The "image" is actually a 3D computer illustration of a eukaryotic cell—found in humans but also in animals, plants, and fungi—and not a ...

Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international research consortium, have profiled 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people around the world. Working in over 100 countries, the ...

The human body comprises roughly 37 trillion cells, with each cell type having a unique function. Sign up here. The researchers aim to have a first draft of the atlas done in the next year or two.

In a recent paper in the journal Nature, Ideker and his colleagues presented their latest attempt to fill this information gap: a fine-grained map of a human cell, showing the locations of more than 5 ...