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Novel spatial-omics technology enables investigation of diseases at their early stages
Identifying small sites of disease initiation or characterizing the exact molecular changes that drive disease progression is difficult when working with animal models or post-mortem human organs.Bhatia et al. developed DISCO-MS, a 3D spatial-omics technology that uses robotics to obtain proteomics data from cells identified early in diseases. Image shows the aortic regions of a human heart whose vascular plaques are analyzed by DISCO-MS technology. Credit: Helmholtz Munich, Harsharan Singh Bhatia and Ali Ertürk

How can you find a damaged cell in an undamaged brain? There is a search looking for a needle. A new technology called DISCO-MS has been developed by the teams of Ali Ertrk at Helmholtz Munich and LMU Munich. DISCO-MS uses robotic technology to get data from sick cells.