TERRA team's cancer samples arrive for spatial transcriptomics, targeting ~200M cells
mo_lotfollahi · x · 2026-10-13
Mo Lotfollahi's team reports that cancer samples have arrived and are queued for spatial transcriptomics. Every slide becomes training data for virtual biology: he expects roughly 200M cells to feed TERRA and upcoming multimodal models.
He frames data generation as the engine behind virtual tissues and virtual patients — a concrete step for AI-driven biology.
Related event: TERRA Team Receives Cancer Samples, Expects 2 Billion-Cell Training Data(2 posts)→
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