A cross-section of the middle temporal gyrus region of a male human brain that uses spatial transcriptomics, a technique that distinguishes cells by their genetic data and use that information to map the cells back to their original locations.
At UC San Diego, brain cell atlas research will be carried out at the Center for Epigenomics. Directors at the center, from left to right: Quan Zhu, Allen Wang, Nathan Zemke and Bing Ren.