The dawn of spatial omics

D Bressan, G Battistoni, GJ Hannon - Science, 2023 - science.org
Spatial omics has been widely heralded as the new frontier in life sciences. This term
encompasses a wide range of techniques that promise to transform many areas of biology …

Spatial profiling technologies illuminate the tumor microenvironment

O Elhanani, R Ben-Uri, L Keren - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is composed of many different cellular and acellular
components that together drive tumor growth, invasion, metastasis, and response to …

An introduction to spatial transcriptomics for biomedical research

CG Williams, HJ Lee, T Asatsuma, R Vento-Tormo… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Single-cell transcriptomics (scRNA-seq) has become essential for biomedical research over
the past decade, particularly in developmental biology, cancer, immunology, and …

The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

High-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-map** at cellular resolution with spatial CITE-seq

Y Liu, M DiStasio, G Su, H Asashima, A Enninful… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In this study, we extended co-indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes (CITE) to the spatial
dimension and demonstrated high-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-map**. We …

Oncometabolite d-2HG alters T cell metabolism to impair CD8+ T cell function

G Notarangelo, JB Spinelli, EM Perez, GJ Baker… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Gain-of-function mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) in human cancers result in the
production of d-2-hydroxyglutarate (d-2HG), an oncometabolite that promotes tumorigenesis …

Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

High-plex immunofluorescence imaging and traditional histology of the same tissue section for discovering image-based biomarkers

JR Lin, YA Chen, D Campton, J Cooper, S Coy, C Yapp… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Precision medicine is critically dependent on better methods for diagnosing and staging
disease and predicting drug response. Histopathology using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) …

Decoding the tumor microenvironment with spatial technologies

LA Walsh, DF Quail - Nature immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Visualization of the cellular heterogeneity and spatial architecture of the tumor
microenvironment (TME) is becoming increasingly important to understand mechanisms of …

Exploring tissue architecture using spatial transcriptomics

A Rao, D Barkley, GS França, I Yanai - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Deciphering the principles and mechanisms by which gene activity orchestrates complex
cellular arrangements in multicellular organisms has far-reaching implications for research …