Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44117-x, published online 08 January 2024

In the Acknowledgements section, the following sentence ‘The development of spatial transcriptomics protocol was supported by the START-HD project within the HMLS Explorer program of the University of Heidelberg’ should have read ‘The development of spatial transcriptomics protocols was supported by the Baden- Württemberg Stiftung (project MET-ID41-STARFISH) and by the HMLS Explorer program of the University of Heidelberg (project START-HD). The original article has been corrected.