Thank you for the kind words! Our progress at AtlasXomics Inc. wouldn’t have been possible without the support of LatchBio. Stay tuned for our chat next week, where we discuss how our improvements have impacted the field of spatial biology! 🧬 #Epigenetics #SpatialBiology
Quick appreciation post for an inspiring team called AtlasXomics Inc. using technology to make people's lives better. I've been fortunate to work with this team for the past 2 years and am consistently inspired by how quickly they are improving, and how much they care. In essence, Atlas is a team of 27 scientists and engineers in Connecticut building a platform to reveal the underlying causes of disease. They gather tissue from scientists around the world - cancer tissue, heart tissue, brain tissue - and then create spatial maps of how disease is progressing in that tissue (based on overlaid gene expression and epigenetic signatures). The results are these beautiful and awe-inspiring spatial maps that elucidate disease progression. (It is insane to me that humans are making such rapid advancements to truly understand how diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease develop, and collaborating to find cures.) The rate of progress is astounding too. Similar to how youtube videos went from 180p to 4k resolution in a few years, exponential change in resolution is happening here. What you see below is the brain of a mouse at different levels of spatial resolution. Each map, as you go left to right, displays higher and higher resolution of spatial context. Giving a clearer picture into the state of the disease. From 2,500 pixels --> 9,200 pixels --> 48,400 pixels in just 12 months. We often hear about exponential improvements in technology, but now you can actually see them. I'll be talking with Colin Ng next week about their team's journey and the details of how they built this. Feel free to tune in. Link below.