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Catalan biologist Arnau Sebé Pedrós has received almost €4 million to start the cellular catalog of life on Earth

A new fruit fly study provides an important stepping stone for a better understanding of gene regulation in flies and humans. Given the ongoing work in mouse and human tissue and further technological improvements, it is only a matter of time before similar networks will be derived for human brain cells as well. These could then be used as the starting point to design enhancers for gene therapy to treat neurodegenerative diseases, for example.