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ReviewDevelopmental cell2026

Dissecting human organ development using spatial technologies.

Xiaoshan Zhang, J Jeya Vandana, Benjamin Greenspun, Shuibing Chen

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Review in Developmental cell, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xiaoshan ZhangDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
J Jeya VandanaDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Benjamin GreenspunDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA.
Shuibing ChenDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Genomic Health, 1300 York Ave., New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: shc2034@med.cornell.edu.

Funding

NIDDK Network Coordinating UnitU24DK097771 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Shuibing Chen, Jeffrey S. Grethe · 2013 to 2026
$20.9M
Co-designing Ethical Multimodal AI Systems for Mapping T1D ProgressionOT2OD038003 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Marcela Brissova, Kai-Wei Chang · 2025 to 2026
$4.0M
Decoding the Cell-specific Impact of Epigenomic and Alternative Splicing Regulation during T1D ProgressionU01DK143498 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Shuibing Chen, Stephen CJ Parker · 2025 to 2026
$3.2M
Role of GLIS3 in Human Pancreatic Beta Cell Generation, Survival and ProliferationR01DK136005 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Shuibing Chen · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Functional Interrogation of Type 2 Diabetes-associated Genetic NetworkR01DK142414 · NIDDK · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Shuibing Chen · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK136005NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK142414NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK143498NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK097771NIH HHS OT2 OD038003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial technologies have revolutionized the study of human development by enabling molecular profiling within intact tissue architecture. Advances in spatial transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and multiomics have generated high-resolution atlases of embryonic and fetal organs, which have revealed how gene regulatory programs, cell-cell interactions, and tissue patterning are organized in space and time during organogenesis. However, limited access to human developmental tissues and ethical constraints restrict experimental validation and mechanistic studies. Stem cell-derived organoids offer tractable, human-relevant models that recapitulate key structural and cellular features of developing organs while allowing controlled perturbation and longitudinal analysis. Integrating spatial profiling with organoids constitutes a sophisticated methodology for systematic analysis of lineage specification, niche signaling, and metabolic maturation. This review synthesizes current spatial technologies, highlights emerging organoid-based technologies, and discusses future directions integrating spatial multiomics, machine learning, and accessible data resources to advance mechanistic and predictive developmental biology.

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OrganogenesisOrganoidsAnimalsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansMultiomicsProteomicsSpatial TranscriptomicsStem Cellshuman developmentorganoidsspatial multiomicsspatial proteomicsspatial transcriptomicsstem cells

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PMID42419284
PMCPMC13353200

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