Pioneering Spatial Biology: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Doyle, the Visionary Architect

The inability to analyze the landscape of a tumor or create a detailed characterization of specified tumor landscape was a significant block in the development of a cure for cancer. Researchers have begun looking into applications of Spatial Biology, an area of biology that focuses on the 3-D mapping of cell morphology. Before the 1990s, it was a completely different story. To analyze an RNA sequence, biologists had to break down tissue to the cell in order to get data, which was not just time-consuming but also caused the biologist to lose any spatial context of the cell and how it interacts with the cells around it. On the other hand, one could examine the morphological features of an organism, but the structural context would be lost. That is until the
invention of Spatial Biology.