SPT Labtech and 10x Genomics announced a strategic partnership to automate single‑cell workflows by combining SPT’s Firefly liquid‑handling platform with 10x’s Chromium single‑cell chemistry and future Visium spatial protocols. The collaboration aims to simplify library preparation, reduce hands‑on time and enable labs to scale single‑cell experiments. Meanwhile, Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Adelaide researchers unveiled GoT‑Multi in Cell Genomics — a high‑throughput single‑cell multi‑omics tool compatible with FFPE tissue that co‑detects multiple somatic genotypes with whole transcriptomes, enabling clonal and transcriptional mapping in archived patient samples and advancing studies of tumor evolution. Taken together, these developments lower technical barriers to large single‑cell studies and expand capability to clinical and archived samples. Clinical researchers and translational teams will watch adoption rates, throughput benchmarks, and whether automated workflows and FFPE‑compatible multi‑omics accelerate discovery and diagnostic translation.