Experiments

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• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• 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

• 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 single-cell multiomics reveals peripheral immune dysfunction in Parkinson's and inflammatory bowel disease.

  PMID 41545356 · PMC12847817 · NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Spatial single-cell multiomic imaging of sigmoid colon reveals both shared and unique features of peripheral immune dysfunction in PD and IBD

  sigmoid plasma stool epithelial cosmx meso gene

• 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

• 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

• Multi-modal dissection of cell-type specific TDP-43 pathology in the motor cortex.

  PMID 41803120 · PMC12982666 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Mainly excitatory cortical neurons are affected by TDP-43 pathology in the ALS/ALS-FTD motor cortex

  post-mortem publicly als single-nucleus single-nucleus spatial genotyping

• scSurv: a deep generative model for single-cell survival analysis.

  PMID 41429574 · PMC12797213 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scSurv combines a Cox proportional hazards model with a deep generative model (VAE) of single-cell transcriptomes to estimate individual cellular contributions to clinical outcomes

  simulated tcga melanoma renal scrna-seq bulk single-cell

• 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 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

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• 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

• 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