A research revolution: multiomic and spatial techniques in cancer biology

When we visited AACR 2025 (24-30 April 2025; Chicago, IL ,USA) it rapidly became clear that two developing technological fields were taking the conference by storm: multiomic and spatial techniques. The spatial resolution of biological data is an exciting emerging area in cancer research, which involves studying the organization of tumor architecture, cell types, and protein expression within a tissue sample. By understanding the spatial arrangement, researchers can better grasp why a drug might work, or fail, in a specific patient. Meanwhile, multiomic techniques enable researchers to make near instant connections between fluctuations at different levels of the central dogma...