According to a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, and the Novel York Genome Center, new technology can reveal the identities and activity of cells across an organ or a tumour at unparalleled resolution. The technique, which is reported in a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, preserves information on the specific locations of the cells while capturing patterns of gene activity and the presence of important proteins in cells across tissue samples. This makes it possible to create intricate, data-rich "maps" of organs, including organs that are ill and tumours, which may be extremely helpful in both basic and clinical research.
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