HESTA: Human Embryogenesis Spatiotemporal Transcriptomic Atlas
HESTA

The spatial and temporal atlas of gene expression in human embryo at early gestation is critical in understanding embryo development, organogenesis and disease origins. Here, we obtained the spatial-temporal transcriptome from the 77 sagittal sections of 13 human embryos at 12-23 Carnegie stage (CS) by Stereo-seq, established the development trajectory/regulatory profiling of 50 organs, and identified the top organ-specific regulons with the highest score as the potential organ-identity regulators. The atlas refines the key organs/cell types that are vulnerable to virus infection and genetic disorders. We found dynamic changes of imprinting gene expression in specific organs at different stages. Our work, for the first time, revealed the time-lapse and spatial transcriptome dynamics of human embryogenesis after gastrulation.

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Jiexue Pan (潘洁雪), Yuejiao Li (李月娇), Zhongliang Lin (林忠亮), Qing Lan (兰青), Ying Zhang (张颖), Huixi Chen (陈慧汐), Shengwei Sui (隋盛威), Man Zhai (翟曼), Gaochen Zhang (张杲琛), Yi Cheng (程旖), Yunhui Tang (唐蕴慧), Qingchen Wang (王清晨), Yue Xu (徐越), Guoling Li (李国玲), Chunyan Xu (许春燕), Haoqi Yan (严号棋), Yiting Mao (毛翌婷), Xingxia Wang (王星霞), Hao Li (李昊), Yiping Zhu (朱依萍), Qinfang Chen (陈勤芳), Yichun Guan (管一春), Nan Meng (孟楠), Chang Wang (王畅), …Hefeng Huang (黄荷凤).Spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of human embryos after gastrulation. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10545-0
Jiexue Pan (潘洁雪) , Zhongliang Lin (林忠亮) , Gaochen Zhang (张杲琛) , Hefeng Huang (黄荷凤) , Guolian Ding (丁国莲), Charting human organogenesis across the Carnegie stages from a whole-embryo perspective, GigaScience, Volume 15, 2026, giag063, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giag063
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