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Despite all our cells sharing the same DNA, there are thousands of different cell types in the human brain, each with a unique structure and function. One longstanding problem in neuroscience is determining how genes are switched on and off to form t
In the past 10 years, the city of San Diego has handed out more than five million parking citations. The biggest hotspots for parking citations are the Gaslamp and Mission Beach, which account for more than half of all tickets from 2012 to 2022. Then, the Environmental Protection Agency is giving a boost to San Diego efforts to improve chronic air quality problems in the region. And the Brain Initiative has just published 21 papers in the journal Science, revealing what some call a preliminary \“map\” of the human brain. San Diego scientists have played a prominent role in the project.
San Diego researchers working with a global consortium are starting to understand what cells comprise the human brain and how they work.
Examining the human brain at the cellular level in more detail than ever before, scientists have identified an enormous array of cell types \u2014 more than 3,300 \u2014 populating our most complex organ, creating an atlas that may help pinpoint the cellular basis of neurological diseases and facilitate new therapeutics.
A new atlas of the human brain could help explain abilities like language – and vulnerabilities, like Alzheimer's disease.