Vizgen Velocity Lab™

Predictive biology begins with better data.

Available to partners now, Velocity Lab is scaling toward transcriptome-scale spatial profiling of hundreds of millions of cells per week in 2027.
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Platform

One platform, three readouts, and growing

Every run goes through the same MERSCOPE® ecosystem, whatever format your samples arrive in. You get one consistent dataset that compares across readouts, runs and studies.
Available now

Spatial Transcriptomics

Leveraging MERFISH 2.0™ chemistry, perform targeted spatial transcriptomics at single-cell resolution with single-molecule sensitivity.
Best for: cell typing and atlases, mapping where a target is expressed, comparing samples or species.

Same-Slide Protein Co-Detection

With MERSCOPE CoMap™, measure high-plex, researcher-selected proteins alongside RNA in the same tissue section, connecting molecular identity with functional state in a single experiment.
Best for: target validation, mechanism of action, safety profiling and treatment response.

Volumetric Tissue Mapping™

Image the full depth of tissue, up to 100 µm against a standard ~10 µm section, capturing up to ~4× more neighboring cells per cell and revealing cellular relationships that thin sections cannot resolve.
Best for: capturing rare cells thin sections may miss, mapping structures such as vasculature that span more than one section, and resolving a fuller set of candidate cell-cell interactions.
Early-access collaborations

Spatially resolved functional genomics

Vizgen is equipping Velocity Lab for spatially resolved functional genomics. Early-access collaborations will enable researchers, through pooled perturbations, to investigate disease mechanisms and identify novel therapeutic targets while preserving cellular and tissue context.
Who it’s for

For teams whose bulk and single-cell data stop short of the answer

Target discovery and validation

Too many candidate targets? Narrow the list by seeing which cell types and interactions change in intact diseased tissue.

Toxicology and preclinical safety

Put preclinical findings in human context. Compare cell types and responses across rat, NHP and human tissue, generated the same way on one platform.

Foundation model development

Batch-consistent spatial datasets built to one protocol, ready for model training and validation.

Translational and biomarker research

Explore what separates responders from non-responders in research cohorts by comparing mechanism and tissue neighborhoods across samples.

Atlases and consortia

Cohort-scale observational data generated consistently on one platform, with no need to build or scale your own infrastructure.
Built on MERFISH

A foundational method for spatial transcriptomics, now for the scale required by foundation models.

At the heart of Velocity Lab are advanced MERSCOPE technologies developed to further the groundbreaking MERFISH methods invented by Professor Xiaowei Zhuang at Harvard University.
~460
pre-prints and publications across academic, government and biopharma labs.
100s
of species, tissue and sample types run.
2020 · 2024
Nature Methods Method of the Year: spatially resolved transcriptomics, then spatial proteomics.
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Tell us about your next project.

A Velocity Lab scientist will review what you share and come back with a proposed study design, sample plan and next steps.
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