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The Human Organ Atlas: a ‘Google Earth’ for our bodies

02 Mar 2022 James Dacey

Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a tool like Google Earth but for the human body, where you could zoom in from a full organ down to its cellular structures? That’s now becoming a reality thanks to the Human Organ Atlas project, and physics is key to this innovation. This short videos explains how the Human Organ Atlas project emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and how it could help medical scientists in a range of clinical contexts.

Discover more about the Human Organ Atlas in this feature, originally published in the March issue of Physics World.

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