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Erika Russell, BSc, is a Science Writer and Editor for LabX Media Group.


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Content Written By, Reviewed By, or Featuring Erika Russell
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AI-generated image of a researcher examining a spatial gene expression heatmap overlaid on an embryo section in a laboratory.
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Spatial Biology in Developmental Biology

Explore how spatial biology is reshaping developmental biology, from mapping embryogenesis and organogenesis to building whole-organism developmental atlases.
AI-generated image of a researcher viewing spatial infection maps on a fluorescence microscopy screen in a research lab.
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Spatial Biology in Infectious Disease and Emerging Fields

Explore how spatial biology is reshaping infectious disease research, from host-pathogen mapping and tuberculosis granulomas to spatial microbiome analysis.
AI-generated image of high-plex multiplexed fluorescence microscopy data showing immune cell organization in tissue.
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Spatial Biology in Immunology and the Immune Microenvironment

Spatial immunology reveals how immune cells organize in tissue, from niches and tertiary lymphoid structures to tumor interfaces. Explore the profiling methods.
AI-generated image of a researcher examining a spatially mapped tumor microenvironment on a fluorescence microscopy display.
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Spatial Biology in Cancer and the Tumor Microenvironment

Spatial transcriptomics is reshaping cancer research. Explore how spatial biology maps the tumor microenvironment, heterogeneity, and immune interactions.
AI-generated image of a researcher examining spatial gene expression maps on a brain section in a neuroscience laboratory.
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Spatial Transcriptomics in Neuroscience and Brain Atlases

Explore how spatial transcriptomics is mapping the brain, from cell-type atlases to neurodegeneration research. Learn about major brain mapping methods.
AI-generated image of a scientist observing live-cell fluorescence microscopy with spatiotemporal gene expression overlays in a research lab.
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Live and Dynamic Spatial Approaches: Toward the Fourth Dimension

Spatiotemporal biology adds time to spatial tissue analysis. Explore live-cell sampling, metabolic labeling, and computational dynamics reshaping spatial omics.
AI-generated image of a laboratory with spatial biology imaging data on monitors and fluorescent tissue samples nearby.
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Applications of Spatial Biology: From Tumor Microenvironment to Brain Mapping

Discover how spatial biology applications are reshaping cancer research, the tumor microenvironment, neuroscience, immunology, and developmental biology.
AI-generated image of researchers examining a 3D spatial cell atlas on a large screen in a modern genomics laboratory.
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Building Spatial Cell Atlases: Methods and Major Projects

Explore how spatial cell atlases are built and used: the Human Cell Atlas, HuBMAP, and HTAN, and how these spatial reference atlases are accelerating research.
AI-generated image of a light-sheet fluorescence microscope illuminating a cleared tissue specimen in a modern research laboratory.
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3D and Volumetric Spatial Biology

Explore how 3D spatial biology is transforming research, from tissue clearing and serial sectioning to whole-organ volumetric transcriptomics and imaging.
AI-generated image of a researcher reviewing spatial metabolomics ion maps on a monitor beside a mass spectrometer.
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Spatial Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Imaging: A Researcher's Overview

Spatial metabolomics maps what transcriptomics misses. Learn how mass spectrometry imaging, MALDI, and DESI profile metabolites and lipids across tissue.
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