OLD Category: CosMx SMI
November 1, 2023 / Neuro-oncol adv
Spatial architecture of high-grade glioma reveals tumor heterogeneity within distinct domains
Background: High-grade gliomas (HGG) are aggressive primary brain cancers with poor response to standard regimens, driven by immense heterogeneity. In isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type high-grade glioma (glioblastoma, GBM), increased intra-tumoral…
October 10, 2023 / Cell Rep
Stomach encyclopedia: Combined single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal cell diversity and homeostatic regulation of human stomach
The stomach is an important digestive organ with various biological functions. However, because of the complexity of its cellular and glandular composition, its precise cellular biology has yet to be…
October 5, 2023 / Brief Bioinform
SpaRx: elucidate single-cell spatial heterogeneity of drug responses for personalized treatment
Spatial cellular authors heterogeneity contributes to differential drug responses in a tumor lesion and potential therapeutic resistance. Recent emerging spatial technologies such as CosMx, MERSCOPE and Xenium delineate the spatial…
September 15, 2023 / Oncol Res
Progress in research on tumor microenvironment-based spatial omics technologies
Spatial omics technology integrates the concept of space into omics research and retains the spatial information of tissues or organs while obtaining molecular information. It is characterized by the ability…
September 12, 2023 / Nat Commun
SiGra: single-cell spatial elucidation through an image-augmented graph transformer
Recent advances in high-throughput molecular imaging have pushed spatial transcriptomics technologies to subcellular resolution, which surpasses the limitations of both single-cell RNA-seq and array-based spatial profiling. The multichannel immunohistochemistry images…
September 4, 2023 / Int J Biol Sci
Novel insights from spatial transcriptome analysis in solid tumors
Since its first application in 2016, spatial transcriptomics has become a rapidly evolving technology in recent years. Spatial transcriptomics enables transcriptomic data to be acquired from intact tissue sections and…
September 2, 2023 / Bioinformatics
MoleculeExperiment enables consistent infrastructure for molecule-resolved spatial omics data in bioconductor
Motivation: Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies have achieved subcellular resolution, enabling detection of individual molecules in their native tissue context. Data associated with these technologies promise unprecedented opportunity toward understanding…
August 12, 2023 / Immunol Cell Biol
The seductive allure of spatial biology: accelerating new discoveries in the life sciences
Spatial biology is a rapidly developing field which enables the visualization of protein and transcriptomic data while preserving tissue context and architecture. Initially used in discovery, there is growing promise…
August 10, 2023 / Cells
Spatial Transcriptomic Technologies
Spatial transcriptomic technologies enable measurement of expression levels of genes systematically throughout tissue space, deepening our understanding of cellular organizations and interactions within tissues as well as illuminating biological insights…
August 4, 2023 / Trends Biotechnol
Spatial -omics technologies: the new enterprise in 3D breast cancer models
The fields of tissue bioengineering, -omics, and spatial biology are advancing rapidly, each offering the opportunity for a paradigm shift in breast cancer research. However, to date, collaboration between these…
August 4, 2023 / Science
CXCL9:SPP1 macrophage polarity identifies a network of cellular programs that control human cancers
Tumor microenvironments (TMEs) influence cancer progression but are complex and often differ between patients. Considering that microenvironment variations may reveal rules governing intratumoral cellular programs and disease outcome, we focused…
August 4, 2023 / Science
The dawn of spatial omics
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 and…