Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal divergent microenvironments and progression signatures in early- and late-onset prostate cancer

Background: Age-related Heterogeneity in Prostate Cancer and New Opportunities for Precision Medicine Prostate cancer (PCA) is the second most common malignancy and the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death among men worldwide. With the global aging population and the advancement of health screening, the age of onset for prostate cancer has b...

DDX24 Spatiotemporally Orchestrates VEGF and Wnt Signaling During Developmental Angiogenesis

Research Background Vascular system development is a highly precise regulatory process involving two key stages: vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. Although the VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) and Wnt signaling pathways have been confirmed to regulate vascular development in the peripheral and central nervous systems (CNS), respectively, th...

MAEST: Accurate Spatial Domain Detection in Spatial Transcriptomics with Graph Masked Autoencoder

Spatial Transcriptomics: Cutting-Edge Technology for Deciphering Spatial Heterogeneity in Tissues Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is an emerging sequencing technology that has rapidly developed in recent years. Its core advantage lies in the simultaneous acquisition of gene expression and spatial location information at the tissue section level, provi...

Repurposing Large-Format Microarrays for Scalable Spatial Transcriptomics

A New Method for Scalable Spatial Transcriptomics via Large-Format Microarrays: The Birth of Array-Seq Technology Background and Research Motivation In recent years, spatiomolecular analyses have become pivotal tools in biomedical research and clinical pathology due to their ability to study how the spatial organization of cells and molecules withi...

Meningeal Solitary Fibrous Tumor Cell States Phenocopy Cerebral Vascular Development and Homeostasis

Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Study of Meningeal Solitary Fibrous Tumors Academic Background Meningeal Solitary Fibrous Tumors (SFTs) are rare mesenchymal tumors originating from the meninges of the central nervous system (CNS). Although SFTs are histologically similar to other meningeal tumors (such as meningiomas), their unique clinical...