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Mining Spatial Transcriptomics Datasets using DeepSpaceDB
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2025
This article introduces a protocol for using DeepSpaceDB, a dynamic, interactive database for spatial transcriptomics, offering analysis workflows and examples to explore tissue organization and disease-related gene expression.
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Stencil Micropatterning of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for Probing Spatial Organization of Differentiation Fates
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2016
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) have the intrinsic ability to differentiate and self-organize into distinct tissue patterns; although this requires the presentation of spatial environmental gradients. We present stencil micropatterning as a simple and robust method to generate biochemical and mechanical gradients for controlling hPSC differentiation patterns.
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Spatial Molecular Imaging of the Glycome Using Mass Spectrometry
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2025
This protocol details the key steps to enable rigorous and reproducible measurement of both glycogen and N-linked glycans using mass spectrometry imaging.
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Spatial Cueing
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Attention refers to the limited human ability to select some information for processing at the expense of other stimuli in the environment. Attention operates in all sensory modalities: vision, hearing, touch, even taste and smell. It is most often studied in the visual domain though. A common way to study visual attention is with a spatial cueing paradigm. This paradigm allows researchers to measure the consequences of focusing...
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Spatial Memory Testing Using Mazes
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2023
Spatial learning and memory are neurological functions that allow us to remember important details associated with our environment. Scientists test this phenomenon in rodents using different types of mazes like Morris water maze, Radial water maze, and Barnes maze. By investigating spatial memory in rodents, neurobehavioral scientists can gain valuable understanding of how these processes are altered following brain damage in humans. Here, the neurobiology behind spatial memory is briefly...
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Compartmentalization places cellular components within distinct regions, allowing different processes to occur in appropriate locations. Molecular localization adds another level of control by positioning particular molecules where signaling, transport, or metabolism requires them. Together, these arrangements help coordinate intracellular activity and connect the location of a structure with its functional contribution.
Concentration gradients provide spatial information by creating differences across a cell, tissue, or developing organism. Cells can therefore encounter distinct molecular conditions in different locations, supporting patterned gene expression and the establishment of body axes. This spatial patterning helps organize developmental events so that structures and tissues form in coordinated positions.
Cell-cell interactions help neighboring cells coordinate their positions, behaviors, and boundaries. These relationships contribute to tissue organization and can reinforce differences between adjacent regions. In developmental biology, such interactions support the formation of tissue boundaries and coordinated patterns of gene expression, linking communication between cells to the larger architecture of an organism.
Spatial organization operates across biological scales rather than at a single level. Within cells, localization directs signaling, transport, and metabolism; across tissues, interactions and boundaries coordinate groups of cells. These levels are connected because intracellular positioning influences cell behavior, while tissue context determines where cells function and how developmental patterns emerge.
Researchers can examine spatial relationships within cells, among cells in tissues, and across whole organisms. At the intracellular scale, the focus may be on molecular localization and functional compartments. At larger scales, analysis can address tissue boundaries, body axes, and patterned gene expression, revealing how organization changes with biological scale.
Spatial organization provides a framework for investigating how misplaced, poorly coordinated, or altered biological components may affect function in disease. It also informs tissue engineering and regenerative biology by emphasizing the arrangement of cells, structures, and signals needed for organized tissue development. These applications use structure-function relationships to guide biological research and interpretation.