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 components of molecular tissue biology

G Palla, DS Fischer, A Regev, FJ Theis - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Methods for profiling RNA and protein expression in a spatially resolved manner are rapidly
evolving, making it possible to comprehensively characterize cells and tissues in health and …

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 …

Museum of spatial transcriptomics

L Moses, L Pachter - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
The function of many biological systems, such as embryos, liver lobules, intestinal villi, and
tumors, depends on the spatial organization of their cells. In the past decade, high …

Spatial omics and multiplexed imaging to explore cancer biology

SM Lewis, ML Asselin-Labat, Q Nguyen, J Berthelet… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding intratumoral heterogeneity—the molecular variation among cells within a
tumor—promises to address outstanding questions in cancer biology and improve the …

Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

R Browaeys, W Saelens, Y Saeys - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by
interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github. com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a …

Host-viral infection maps reveal signatures of severe COVID-19 patients

P Bost, A Giladi, Y Liu, Y Bendjelal, G Xu, E David… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Viruses are a constant threat to global health as highlighted by the current COVID-19
pandemic. Currently, lack of data underlying how the human host interacts with viruses …

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 …

Clinical and translational values of spatial transcriptomics

L Zhang, D Chen, D Song, X Liu, Y Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
The combination of spatial transcriptomics (ST) and single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-
seq) acts as a pivotal component to bridge the pathological phenomes of human tissues with …