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CosMx SMI Multiomics Spatial Analysis
Spatial Transcriptomics Overview
What is spatial gene expression? Spatial gene expression examines transcriptional dynamics through the lens of location within tissue and/or transcriptional dynamics between unique cells within a tissue. With spatial gene…
Multiomics Spatial Analysis
Why is Spatial Genomics Important?
Why is Spatial Genomics Important? Spatial genomics is important because the human body is a complex three-dimensional structure. That structure is an important part of our molecular physiology. To fully…
Spatial Transcriptomics
Understanding Spatial Sequencing in the Context of Spatial Biology
What is spatial sequencing? Spatial sequencing is viewing a specific area or a region within a tissue, then sequencing all transcripts found in that region. Spatial sequencing allows the user…
Spatial Biology
An Introduction to Spatial Biology and Spatial Profiling
What is spatial biology? Spatial biology is the study of molecules in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional context. Using spatial biology techniques, the users can visualize molecules in their unique contexts…
Miscellaneous
Meet our Outstanding Colleagues: Elizabeth
We call ourselves NanoStringers, and we bleed green! We proudly believe in the science and technology we make here. Meet us. You will love us! Elizabeth Ph.D., Senior Global Marketing…
GeoMx DSP Grants Spatial Transcriptomics
Standing Out in Space: Tips for Winning a Spatial Biology Grant
Nature Methods is a leading journal for molecular biologists interested in the latest and greatest life sciences research techniques. Each year since 2007, Nature Methods chooses a method to feature…
Data Analysis Multiomics Spatial Analysis
GeomxTools: An Open Source Package for Spatial Biology Data Analysis
Spatial biology is the new frontier of molecular biology that has revolutionized the study of gene and protein expression. Until recently, expression patterns were obtained via bulk sequencing or single-cell…
Digital Spatial Profiling GeoMx DSP Spatial Transcriptomics
A new map for our anatomy: the Spatial Organ Atlas
One year for spring break, we found ourselves in Portland, Oregon. For science-y people, a trip to Portland would be incomplete without a visit to the Oregon Museum of Science…
Data Security nCounter
Is your Lab Secure? Exploring the New Cyberbiosecurity World
As someone who is involved in molecular biology research, how often do you think about cybersecurity? Occasionally? Never? Perhaps you only think about them when you receive an email from…
Multiomics Spatial Analysis Spatial Transcriptomics
GeoMx® DSP Integrated with Sequencing Run Planning for NextSeq 1000/2000
Illumina and NanoString® collaborated further to pair the GeoMx® DSP with NGS readout from Illumina sequencing instruments. This partnership enables scalability and high throughput of whole transcriptomes and protein abundance…
Oncology
Five Key Milestones in the History of Research in Cancer Biology
On a cold snowy day in late November 2016, I sat with my father-in-law at the infusion clinic in the local hospital. I was visiting Pennsylvania for my mother-in-law’s funeral.…
GeoMx DSP Infectious Disease
The GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler is Aiding Global Infectious Disease Researchers to Reveal How the Immune System Responds to HIV
Imagine a world without HIV The innate immune response is the first line of defense against the pathogen during a viral infection. Only later the adaptive immune response develops in…