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Unveiling Chromatin Architecture with Droplet Hi-C
October 18, 2024
A Breakthrough in Single-Cell Analysis
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Communities of the Heart
March 13, 2024
Investigation reveals how proper cellular interactions prevent cardiac calamity
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Mapping the Mouse Brain Helps Reveal What Makes Us Human
December 14, 2023
UC San Diego researchers are translating the language of brain cells, and it’s helping them figure out what goes wrong in diseases of the brain
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Human Brain Cell Atlas Offers Unprecedented Look at Neuropsychiatric Disorders
October 13, 2023
Researchers map gene switches and brain cell types associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and major depression
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Massive brain dump described as triumph of molecular biology
October 13, 2023
Ten years ago, the USA government founded the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, a multi-billion dollar project to “revolutionise” our understanding of the brain
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Human 'Brain Cell Atlas' Brings New Insight Into Brain Health, Illness
October 12, 2023
The atlas encompasses more than 3,000 types of brain cells, and gives insight into how they vary from one person to another, how they differ from non-human primates’ brain cells, how particular brain cell types are related to specific diseases, and more.
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UC San Diego, Salk and Others Seek to Map the Human Brain Over a Lifetime
September 22, 2022
The new Center for Multiomic Human Brain Cell Atlas will seek to describe in unprecedented detail the molecular features of the brain’s billions of cells, where each is located and how they change with age
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$6M NIH Grant Launches UC San Diego Consortium to Study Insulin-Producing Cells
September 9, 2021
To help bridge the gap between genotype (DNA sequence) and phenotype (cell behavior), the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a new Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium
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