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Speaking to her colleagues at the meeting in Israel, Regev, who is cochairing the Human Cell Atlas Organizing Committee with Sarah Teichmann of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, displayed the no-nonsense demeanor you might expect of someone at the helm of a massive scientific undertaking.

The project had been under way for a year, and Regev, an MIT biology professor who is also chair of the faculty of the Broad and director of its Klarman Cell Observatory and Cell Circuits Program, was reviewing a newly published white paper detailing how the Human Cell Atlas is expected to change the way we diagnose, monitor, and treat disease.

As Regev made her way through the white paper, the possibilities began to seem almost endless.

At the most basic level, as a reference map detailing the genes expressed by each different type of healthy cell, the Human Cell Atlas will make it easier to identify how gene expression and signaling go awry in the case of disease.

The same map could also help