Editorial Open Access
Spatial Transcriptomics in Oral Health
Jinghao Wang1, Nicole Chang2, Yu‑Chi Cheng1,3,4,*
- 1Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- 2University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
- 3Pathology Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- 4Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Corresponding Author
Yu-Chi Cheng, jack_cheng@hsdm.harvard.edu
Received Date: May 14, 2026
Accepted Date: May 19, 2026
Wang J, Chang N, Cheng YC. Spatial Transcriptomics in Oral Health. Arch Dent. 2026;8(1):2–4.
Copyright: © 2026 Cheng Y, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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