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The future of spatial biology in drug discovery

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20 August 2026

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Fusion42 · 21 August 2026 · Fusion42 review

Spatial biology is expanding beyond oncology into autoimmune diseases, neuroscience, and gene therapy safety, with breakthroughs in spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and new perturbation-based spatial experiments advancing drug discovery platforms.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Drug Discovery.

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Spatial biology now offers you a toolkit that reaches beyond cancer into autoimmune and brain diseases with detailed tissue context, turning previously vague cell data into targeted drug discovery paths. Your upcoming projects can exploit spatial experiments combining gene editing and molecular mapping to gain a decisive discovery edge.

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