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Article History
Received: 1 October 2024
Accepted: 22 October 2025
First Online: 5 November 2025
Competing interests
: M.D.L. contracted for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and received speaker fees from Pfizer and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. J.L. and Z.A. are the scientific consultants for 10x Genomics Inc which holds intellectual property rights to the spatial transcriptomics technology. F.J.T. is a scientific consultant for Immunai Inc., CytoReason Ltd, Cellarity, BioTuring Inc., Genbio.AI Inc., and has an ownership interest in Dermagnostix GmbH and Cellarity. M.N. is co-founder of CARTANA. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.