The Virtual Tissues foundation model resolves spatial proteomics across scales

Nature, Published online: 05 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10884-y

Virtual Tissues (VirTues), a foundation model for spatial proteomics that captures tissue organization across scales, supports marker reconstruction, cell segmentation and typing, niche annotation, spatial biomarker discovery and patient stratification across heterogeneous panels and datasets.