On May 13, 2022, the Tabula Sapiens Consortium announced it had published a molecular reference atlas for more than 400 cell types of the human body.

The Tabula Sapiens Consortium used single-cell transcriptomics to measure the messenger RNA molecules in each of nearly 500,000 cells from 24 tissues and organs. These data enable new insights into how the human genome parts list is used to create distinct cell types within the human organism.