March 2025—Illumina announced a new spatial technology program that the company says will empower researchers to map complex tissues and understand cellular behavior at an unprecedented scale. Enabled on Illumina sequencers and a new multimodal analysis platform, Illumina Connected Multiomics, the spatial technology delivers unbiased whole-transcriptome profiling with cellular resolution and high sensitivity. The technology will allow researchers to examine the spatial proximity of millions of cells per experiment, enabled by a capture area nine times larger than existing technologies and with four times greater resolution. It is compatible with Illumina NextSeq and NovaSeq sequencers.
The spatial solution is planned for commercial release in 2026.
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