Experiments

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• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals the molecular signatures of prodromal and advanced α-synucleinopathy.

  PMID 41736854 · PMC12927100 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Early-stage (prodromal) aSyn pathology in M83+/+ mouse brainstem is associated with upregulation of ATP/energy metabolism pathways (glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid metabolism)

  sagittal st-derived spatial immunofluorescence cell-cell

• Spatially resolved integrative analysis of transcriptomic and metabolomic changes in tissue injury studies.

  PMID 41501078 · PMC12780049 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MAGPIE is a computational framework (Snakemake workflow) that co-registers Visium spatial transcriptomics with MSI metabolomics and tissue morphology images from same or consecutive sections

  lung brain publicly rodent spatial desi h&e

• Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Decidua Identifies Molecular Signatures in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.

  PMID 41031483 · PMC13242933 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The human decidua contains two coherent spatial domains, the implantation zone (IZ) and glandular-secretory zone (GZ), corresponding to the decidua compacta and spongiosa

  first-trimester decidual spots dnk 10x h&e type

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution.

  PMID 41388990 · PMC12776951 · The Plant cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH was successfully optimized for wheat inflorescence tissue, enabling localization of a 200-gene panel to cellular resolution across 4 developmental stages

  microdissected cryosectioned wheat merfish-imaged bulk merfish single-nucleus

• Serial Spatial Transcriptomes Reveal Regulatory Transitions in Maize Leaf Development.

  PMID 41493197 · PMC13110159 · Plant biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An optimised Visium spatial transcriptomics protocol (two-step OCT embedding combined with OCT-Immersion First cryopreservation) preserves high-integrity RNA from fragile plant tissues such as SAM

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• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

  dorsolateral dlpfc nanostring spatial cell-type multi-platform

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Spatial transcriptomics identifies differentiation, lipid metabolism, and retinoid pathway alterations in acne vulgaris.

  PMID 41657309 · PMC12892907 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A custom KRT5-directed segmentation pipeline improves transcript assignment accuracy in the spatially complex sebaceous gland compared with standard multimodal or nuclei-expansion segmentation

  skin inflammatory tert gtrd spatial immunohistochemistry reanalysis

• DANST enables cell-type deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics using deep domain adversarial neural networks.

  PMID 41663685 · PMC12996496 · Communications biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  DANST, a deconvolution framework using deep domain adversarial neural networks, achieves superior cell-type deconvolution accuracy compared with existing methods on human and mouse benchmark datasets

  heart cortex visual brain spatial cell-type

• Spatiotemporal transcriptomic profiling reveals upregulation of glycolysis pathway genes before overt tauopathy in the PS19 mouse model.

  PMID 41688738 · PMC12992590 · Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Pgk1, a glycolytic hub gene, is upregulated in the CA3 hippocampal subregion at 2 months of age, preceding detectable tau tangle pathology, and its expression correlates with tangle severity.

  ps19 spatial immunohistochemistry immunofluorescence

• FineST: contrastive learning integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics for nuclei-resolved ligand-receptor analysis.

  PMID 41839892 · PMC13201544 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FineST, a bimodal contrastive learning model integrating histology (Virchow2 ViT features) and spatial gene expression, enables nuclei-resolved high-resolution RNA imputation.

  colorectal crc breast he-stained spatial type ccc

• STAN, a computational framework for inferring spatially informed transcription factor activity.

  PMID 41521668 · PMC12784991 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  STAN, a linear mixed-effects (spatially weighted regression) model, integrates TF-target gene priors, gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features to predict spot-specific TF activity in spatial transcriptomics data

  lymph glioblastoma breast dorsolateral spatial scrna-seq

• Smart spatial omics (S2-omics) optimizes region of interest selection to capture molecular heterogeneity in diverse tissues.

  PMID 41298871 · PMC12662399 · Nature cell biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  S2-omics is an end-to-end workflow that automatically selects ROIs from H&E histology images to maximize molecular information content for spatial omics profiling.

  gastric colorectal additional breast xenium visium histology

• Spatial cartography of human thymus enables the geopositioning of lineage transcription factors in rare mimetic thymic epithelial cells.

  PMID 41807357 · PMC13102919 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Generated a high-resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of human fetal (13,14,17,18w) and paediatric (7w,2y,5y,6y) thymi using Stereo-seq, integrated with scRNA-seq and MACSima/Stereo-CITE proteomics

  fetal paediatric thymus stereo-seq scrna-seq macsima

• Ultra-precision deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics decodes immune heterogeneity and fate-defining programs in tissues.

  PMID 41862467 · PMC13168514 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  UCASpatial is a novel deconvolution algorithm that uses Shannon entropy-based gene weighting combined with weighted non-negative least squares to estimate cell-type composition from spatial transcriptomics data

  simulated colorectal hippocampus ear simulated runtime spatial

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of human skin anatomy.

  PMID 41872488 · PMC13083264 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH-based spatial atlas of ~1.2 million cells resolves 45 cell types across 114 samples and 15 anatomic sites in normal human skin

  normal skin gtex matched merfish scrna-seq bulk

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  PMID 41916307 · PMC13107060 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TOAST extends the classical FGW objective by adding a spatial coherence term and a neighborhood consistency term to model local spatial organization and molecular heterogeneity.

  simulated dorsolateral simulated multislice ablation

• SA2E: spatial-aware auto-encoder for cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41863296 · PMC13070677 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SA2E is a spatial-aware auto-encoder framework for cell-type deconvolution that does not require predefined cell-type biomarkers

  olfactory legacy breast brain simulated real scrna-seq

• stDyer-image improves clustering analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics and proteomics with morphological images.

  PMID 41692960 · PMC12960910 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  stDyer-image directly associates the image modality with predicted cluster labels rather than using images to enhance/impute gene expression data

  non-small morphology brain breast spatial image