Spatial Biology: Decoding Cellular Complexity in Tissues
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Tissues and Organs".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 1087
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Dear Colleagues,
Spatial biology (SB), also known as spatial tissue profiling, is a new and rapidly advancing discipline. Being a descendent of traditional multiplex immunohistochemistry, SB far exceeds the latter in multiplexing capacity: it allows for interrogating hundreds of genes and proteins in a single histological tissue sample, shedding light on the in situ localization of biomarkers and their interactions within the tissue microenvironment.
To mark the importance of the field of SB and address the needs of researchers to share their latest achievements, we are launching a Special Issue entitled “Spatial Biology: Decoding Cellular Complexity in Tissues”. This Special Issue will present research articles and high-quality review papers in the spatial biology/spatial tissue profiling research fields. We encourage researchers working in proteomics and transcriptomics, as well as other cell and tissue research areas, to make contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spatial biology
- spatial tissue profiling
- proteomics
- transcriptomics
- cell and tissue
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