The Research Team at School of medicine, Zhejiang University has released the results of a breakthrough step toward mapping 30-trillion-plus cells in the human body. Nature, the scientific periodical, published this latest report of Construction of a human cell landscape at singe-cell level online on March 26.

To sequence the RNA in hundreds of thousands of single cells, led by Guo Guoji, the researchers analyzed both adult and fetal tissue samples by a tool called Microwell-seq that was developed in 2018.

“The new study depicts the characteristics of each cell and classifies them systematically,” Guo said, “This is about digitizing the Human Cell Atlas.”