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 …

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 …

Cell2location maps fine-grained cell types in spatial transcriptomics

V Kleshchevnikov, A Shmatko, E Dann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomic technologies promise to resolve cellular wiring diagrams of tissues in
health and disease, but comprehensive mapping of cell types in situ remains a challenge …

Spatially informed cell-type deconvolution for spatial transcriptomics

Y Ma, X Zhou - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Many spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies do not have single-cell resolution but
measure the average gene expression for each spot from a mixture of cells of potentially …

A single-cell and spatially resolved atlas of human breast cancers

SZ Wu, G Al-Eryani, DL Roden, S Junankar, K Harvey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancers are complex cellular ecosystems where heterotypic interactions play central
roles in disease progression and response to therapy. However, our knowledge of their …

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 …

A comprehensive benchmarking with practical guidelines for cellular deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics

H Li, J Zhou, Z Li, S Chen, X Liao, B Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics technologies are used to profile transcriptomes while preserving
spatial information, which enables high-resolution characterization of transcriptional patterns …

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 …