The Dawn of Spatial Medicine

Eric Topol October 26, 2024

For the first time spatial omics leads to a lifesaving treatment

What’s spatial medicine? We’re not talking about space medicine or going to Mars, or a form of rehab. This is about a landmark paper from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, leading an international collaboration across many countries (authors and work from Germany, Japan, Denmark, China, Australia, France, Switzerland, and USA), that moved the field from spatial biology as a research tool to medicine as a therapy. I’ve coined this term to reflect the importance of this advance.

Brief Background on Spatial Biology

I’ve previously written about spatial biology here, one of, if not the hottest area in life science, providing exquisite spatiotemporal maps of cells, nuclei, or cellular...

Today's Sponsors

Today's Sponsor