Dna Today: A Genetics Podcast

Dr. George Emanuel shares about single-cell spacial genomics in this podcast episode. Dr. Emanuel is the Scientific Cofounder and Director of Technology and Partnerships at Vizgen, a biotechnology company that is dedicated to pioneering the next generation of spatially resolved transcriptomics profiling tools to provide new insight into the biological systems that underlie human health and disease. Spatial genomics is a new frontier in molecular biology, which aims to assay the genomic information of single cells within their native tissue environment, combining spatial transcriptomics with single-cell sequencing. This exciting technology was named Nature’s "Method of the Year 2020"!Dr. Emanuel has spent the past decade developing high-throughput spatial profiling technologies including extending Vizgen’s MERFISH (Multiplexed Error-Robust Fluorescence in situ Hybridization) technology to profile 10,000 genes in the same sample. He received dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Colorado, and a