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 …

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 …

Benchmarking spatial and single-cell transcriptomics integration methods for transcript distribution prediction and cell type deconvolution

B Li, W Zhang, C Guo, H Xu, L Li, M Fang, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics approaches have substantially advanced our capacity to detect the
spatial distribution of RNA transcripts in tissues, yet it remains challenging to characterize …

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 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 …

The landscape of aging

Y Cai, W Song, J Li, Y Jing, C Liang, L Zhang… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Aging is characterized by a progressive deterioration of physiological integrity, leading to
impaired functional ability and ultimately increased susceptibility to death. It is a major risk …

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 …

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 …