Scientists generate first single-cell 'atlas' of the primate brain to help explore links between molecules, cells, brain function and disease

“Our data, which we have made open and available to the scientific community and broader public, represent the largest and most comprehensive multimodal molecular atlas in a primate to date, and are crucial for exploring how the many cells of the brain come together to give rise to the behavioral complexity of primates including humans,” said senior co-author Jay Shendure, a professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington and Director of the Brotman Baty Institute.

“These data will also provide a critical and much-needed map of complex human-relevant social behavior and disease, as well as the substrate for identifying similarities and differences in these cells and networks across species,” said senior co-author Michael Platt, a professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania