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  • Aviv Reghev is the co-founder of the Human Cell Atlas.

  • It's a huge leap in understanding how human cells work.

  • She says it's like upgrading from a 15th century map of the world to Google Maps.

  • If I want to develop a medicine that would only go to the place where something is broken,

  • I need to know how to get there.

  • The new wave of biotechnology.

  • That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.

  • Live from NPR News in Washington, Iqorva Coleman, the Vatican says that Pope Francis has died.

  • He was 88 years old.

  • Francis had struggled with health issues recently.

  • He had been hospitalized for five weeks to treat bronchitis initially.

  • It later became severe pneumonia.

  • Just yesterday, the Pope had greeted worshipers in St. Peter's Square celebrating Easter.

  • NPR's Jason DeRose reports, Pope Francis was the leader of the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics.

  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope in March of 2013 and chose the name Francis in honor of St. Francis.

  • He was the first Pope from the Jesuit religious order and the first Pope from outside Europe

  • since the medieval period.

  • He was born in Argentina and before his election served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

  • Francis's nearly 12-year-long papacy focused on a number of issues, including the environment,

  • with a particular emphasis on how ecological degradation affects the poorest people on the planet and the plight of refugees and immigrants,