A new software tool, ovrlpy, improves quality control in spatial transcriptomics, a key technology in biomedical research. Developed by the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) in international collaboration, ovrlpy is the first tool to identify cell overlaps and folds in tissue sections, th ereby reducing previously unrecognized sources of misinterpretations. The researchers have published their results in the journal Nature Biotechnology. ...read more read less