“Here we present Rakaia, a browser-based platform for multiplexed imaging and spatial transcriptomics, empowering code-free interactive exploration and evaluation. Rakaia enables visualization, annotation, and feature-based querying with prioritization across thousands of images. We use Rakaia to identify cell types of interest in >200 highly multiplexed images from non-malignant human breast tissue.”
Rakaia is available at:
https://rakaia.io/”
Full preprint available at:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670550v1

“Here we mapped the spatial relationships between tumour, stroma, and immune cell compartments delineating tumour and microenvironment types that expand the classical to basal spectrum of human PDAC. We used imaging mass cytometry to profile the in situ multi-cellular organization of 81 cell types in resected cases with paired whole genome sequencing. Cell types, functions, and pathway activation were distributed as highly reproducible environments in discrete locations throughout these tumours, which we deep-profiled using laser-capture mass spectrometry. We show that the connections between tumour phenotypes, vascularization, immune response, and stromal biophysical state are reinforced by genomic aberrations, altered by treatment, and associated with patient outcome.”
Read more at:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670565v1

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