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 …

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 …

Cellpose 2.0: how to train your own model

M Pachitariu, C Stringer - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
Pretrained neural network models for biological segmentation can provide good out-of-the-
box results for many image types. However, such models do not allow users to adapt the …

[HTML][HTML] Organization of the human intestine at single-cell resolution

JW Hickey, WR Becker, SA Nevins, A Horning… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The intestine is a complex organ that promotes digestion, extracts nutrients, participates in
immune surveillance, maintains critical symbiotic relationships with microbiota and affects …

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 …

Whole-cell segmentation of tissue images with human-level performance using large-scale data annotation and deep learning

NF Greenwald, G Miller, E Moen, A Kong, A Kagel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A principal challenge in the analysis of tissue imaging data is cell segmentation—the task of
identifying the precise boundary of every cell in an image. To address this problem we …

Democratising deep learning for microscopy with ZeroCostDL4Mic

L von Chamier, RF Laine, J Jukkala, C Spahn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deep Learning (DL) methods are powerful analytical tools for microscopy and can
outperform conventional image processing pipelines. Despite the enthusiasm and …

The immunoregulatory landscape of human tuberculosis granulomas

EF McCaffrey, M Donato, L Keren, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is characterized by formation of immune-rich granulomas in
infected tissues, the architecture and composition of which are thought to affect disease …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal analysis of composition and spatial architecture in human squamous cell carcinoma

AL Ji, AJ Rubin, K Thrane, S Jiang, DL Reynolds… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
To define the cellular composition and architecture of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
(cSCC), we combined single-cell RNA sequencing with spatial transcriptomics and …