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That's why Ion, Bloomer, and their collaborators think the new global crayfish atlas will make a difference.

“Ultimately, using this atlas could help us better understand the conditions of both the young and ageing skeleton,” said Dr Ken To, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

China is setting out to chart an exquisitely detailed subterranean atlas across the country’s vast expanse.

"That's the power of this approach -- once you have an atlas of genetic variants, and that of the protein levels, you can apply this to any disease," he said.

It has produced draft atlases of the brain and lung and researchers are working on the kidney, liver and heart.