Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics

K Vandereyken, A Sifrim, B Thienpont… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The joint analysis of the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome
from single cells is transforming our understanding of cell biology in health and disease. In …

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 …

Molecularly defined and spatially resolved cell atlas of the whole mouse brain

M Zhang, X Pan, W Jung, AR Halpern, SW Eichhorn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In mammalian brains, millions to billions of cells form complex interaction networks to enable
a wide range of functions. The enormous diversity and intricate organization of cells have …

The expanding vistas of spatial transcriptomics

L Tian, F Chen, EZ Macosko - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
The formation and maintenance of tissue integrity requires complex, coordinated activities
by thousands of genes and their encoded products. Until recently, transcript levels could …

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 …

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 …

From bulk, single-cell to spatial RNA sequencing

X Li, CY Wang - International journal of oral science, 2021 - nature.com
RNA sequencing (RNAseq) can reveal gene fusions, splicing variants, mutations/indels in
addition to differential gene expression, thus providing a more complete genetic picture than …

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 …

Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …