EMEA | Summer 2026 Edition


Welcome to The Readout. Each quarter, we bring you essential highlights, technical updates, and resources designed to help core facilities maximize the capabilities and impact of your 10x instrumentation and assays. Let's jump right in, and happy reading!

Core-to-Core insights


Voice of your peers

Relive the Single Cell & Spatial Core Excellence Summit 2026 and hear directly from EMEA core facility members about their experiences. Want to share the memories of a great event with your community? Here's our LinkedIn post, and here's the direct link to YouTube.

Celebrating 10 years of 10x at VIB


It was a pleasure to be a part of the 10 years of 10x celebration at VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie) in Ghent, Belgium, on June 12, 2026, to mark a decade since our single cell technology first arrived there through Tech Watch in 2016. Since then, the VIB community has made remarkable breakthroughs in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, plant sciences, and computational biology. Thanks to everyone who came out to reflect on the journey with us. Here's to the next ten years!

Core4Life Genomics Meeting 2026 – Ghent, Belgium

Starting with an informal dinner kick-off, this two-day event brought together around 60 scientists from core facilities across Europe to share data, coordinate expertise and resources, and learn about new technologies from industry partners. The event paired a facility tour with technical discussions. We are excited for the 2027 edition and are looking forward to seeing where the consortium's collaboration leads next.

Product spotlight: Epi Multiome

GEM-X Epi Multiome delivers robust, highly sensitive profiling of both gene expression and open chromatin from the same cell. Gain deeper insights into regulatory networks, cell states, and cell lineage with directly linked transcriptomic and epigenomic single cell profiles.

What's new?

Latest product updates across portfolio
  • Single cell automation: Reliable, automated cell partitioning with Chromium instruments is standard across all our single cell assays and your core can automate the rest of the workflow too, with automation-ready reagents and access to our trusted vendor network. Ready to get started? Discover the possibilities for automating your lab.

  • New rat probes for Flex, Apex & Visium HD: Bring the same precision and discovery power of 10x Genomics to the rat model studies your users depend on. New rat probe sets are now available for Flex, Apex, and Visium HD assays. Whether your users are working with fresh frozen, fixed frozen, or biobanked FFPE samples, your core can now offer highly sensitive, high-resolution, whole transcriptome single cell and spatial insights. Order Flex Apex and Visium HD rat probes today.

  • Single cell blood analysis with Flex Apex: Flex Apex's new protocol using PAXgene or Streck tubes facilitates blood sample collection for end users. Samples are stabilized at collection, can be gathered anywhere without lab access, and stay stable at room temp or 4°C for up to 3 days (or frozen long-term) before your core processes them. Interested in more blood-related resources? Have a look here at our latest resources & publications and visit our single cell blood analysis page.

  • VIPerturb-seq: VIPerturb-seq brings Perturb-seq to Flex Apex today. This means your core can offer genome-wide screens without the cost of a full genome-wide probeset, while taking advantage of Apex's low cost per cell and high sequencing efficiency — all without the separate ordering process or custom probe design typically required through third-party vendors.

To learn more about all these products, join our webinar for core facility members on August 11, 3 PM CEST | 2 PM BST. Register here.

10x Genomics acquires Proteintech Genomics
We’re excited to share that Proteintech Genomics is now part of the 10x Genomics family, bringing together two organizations with a shared commitment to advancing biological discovery. Read the full announcement here. 

We are committed to ensuring continuity throughout this transition and supporting your research without disruption, and we've created a dedicated page with support and technical documentation. Visit our Resources and customer support page. 

Resource hub

We recently hosted a beginner-friendly webinar on data analysis. Below are the resources shared during the session. Download the dataset and watch the recording to follow along with the tutorial.

Webinar recordings

Whether you're exploring new tools, expanding your current platforms, or curious how other labs are applying them, these recordings have something for your facility.

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Webinar — Core Excellence: Expanding discovery across species, samples and scale

August 11, 3 PM CEST | 2 PM BST

Stay ahead of the requests you haven't gotten yet. On August 11, we're breaking down our latest releases and showing how each of them can expand what you offer your users, helping you get more out of your 10x assays and instruments.

This session will cover four exciting new releases:

  • Expanded species support with rat probes now available for Flex Apex and Visium HD.
  • Streamlined blood sample protocols that give your core more flexibility in timing and processing.
  • A growing ecosystem of automation platform integrations to help you scale up throughput.
  • A first look at VIPerturb-seq, a new approach to large-scale perturbation screening. 

Join us on August 11, and see how each one can expand what your core offers. Can't make it live? Register anyway. We'll send the recording shortly after.

Register now