Single-cell RNA sequencing is a powerful tool for studying cellular diversity, for example in cancer where varied tumor cell types determine diagnosis, prognosis and response to therapy.
A team of Vanderbilt University imaging experts won grants in the first round of the National Institutes of Health’s Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) funding, aimed at developing an open, global framework to map the adult human body at the level of individual cells.