Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Age Deceleration and Reversal Gene Patterns in Dauer Diapause.

  PMID 41104926 · PMC12686545 · Aging cell · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dauer arrest, regardless of duration, does not cause lasting functional decline in lifespan, brood size, or developmental resumption

  daf-2 wild-type same dauer developmental lifespan brood

• Under the Shadow: Old-biased Genes Are Subject to Weak Purifying Selection at Both the Tissue- and Cell Type-Specific Levels.

  PMID 41092135 · PMC12569596 · Genome biology and evolution · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Age-related decrease in transcriptome conservation (ADICT) is commonly found in ageing tissues of nonmammalian species (chicken brain, killifish liver and skin, fruit fly brain).

  gallus nothobranchius drosophila heterocephalus bulk single-cell

• High DNA methylation age deceleration defines an aggressive phenotype with immunoexclusion environments in endometrial carcinoma.

  PMID 37388735 · PMC10303802 · Frontiers in immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Almost 90% of TCGA EC tumors exhibit DNA methylation age deceleration (DNAmad) relative to patient chronological age as assessed by the Horvath clock

  tumors metastatic methylation bulk kegg

• Investigating epigenetic biomarkers of age, sex, and disease in captive South African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus).

  PMID 41528985 · PMC12798976 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A cheetah-specific epigenetic age clock using 52 CpG sites predicts chronological age across blood and liver with r=0.97 and MAE=0.86 years

  cheetah lion genes methylation epigenome-wide differential

• Insights into the coupling of duplication events and macroevolution from an age profile of animal transmembrane gene families.

  PMID 16895434 · PMC1534073 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The density of transmembrane gene duplicates positively correlates with the estimated maximum number of cell types of common ancestors

  transmembrane simulated age duplicate maximum kernel monte

• SOX10-regulated promoter use defines isoform-specific gene expression in Schwann cells.

  PMID 32770939 · PMC7430845 · BMC genomics · 2020 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SOX10 binds preferentially at proximal promoter elements directly over TSSs in Schwann cells in vivo, identifying candidate SOX10-regulated promoters.

  sciatic schwann differentiating tn5prime chip-seq gene

• Improved precision of epigenetic clock estimates across tissues and its implication for biological ageing.

  PMID 31443728 · PMC6708158 · Genome medicine · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The proportion of variance in chronological age explained by all DNA methylation probes is close to 1, so a near-perfect age predictor is in principle achievable with sufficient training data.

  blood unrelated training lbc1921 methylation reml age

• Epistemic uncertainty challenges aging clock reliability in predicting rejuvenation effects.

  PMID 39072888 · PMC11561706 · Aging cell · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DNA methylation profiles observed across cellular reprogramming are poorly represented in the training data of existing aging clocks, introducing high out-of-distribution/epistemic uncertainty in their age estimates

  males skin liver linear dnam epigenetic

• Improved epigenetic age prediction models by combining sex chromosome and autosomal markers.

  PMID 40665390 · PMC12261677 · Epigenetics & chromatin · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Combining sex chromosomal DNAm markers with autosomal age-informative markers can produce a high-accuracy age prediction model competitive with autosomal-only models

  blood buffy methylation random spearman

• Proteomic and phototoxic characterization of melanolipofuscin: correlation to disease and model for its origin.

  PMID 17392682 · PMC2642915 · Molecular vision · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MLF accumulation more closely reflects the onset of AMD than LF accumulation

  donor arpe-19 mlf sucrose phototoxicity fluorescence

• Endurance exercise as a countermeasure for aging.

  PMID 18716044 · PMC2570389 · Diabetes · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Reduced insulin sensitivity with age is likely related to adiposity and physical inactivity rather than being an inevitable consequence of aging.

  vastus mitochondria mitochondrial extracted euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic mitochondrial citrate

• Quantitative analysis of age specific variation in the abundance of human female parotid salivary proteins.

  PMID 19764810 · PMC2834885 · Journal of proteome research · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Protein expression in human female parotid saliva is age-dependent, with distinct protein sets differentially abundant between young and older healthy women

  pooled hcic trypsin-digested normalized hydrophobic sds-page mudpit

• Addressing the age-old question of old age.

  PMID 15287970 · PMC507873 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Dietary restriction and reduced temperature extend Drosophila lifespan via intrinsically different demographic mechanisms: dietary restriction lowers intrinsic frailty, while lower temperature reduces the rate of senescence.

  drosophila populations australian centenarians demographic historical peptide

• ResnetAge: A Resnet-Based DNA Methylation Age Prediction Method.

  PMID 38247911 · PMC10813502 · Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  ResnetAge, a ResNet-based neural network using 22,278 shared Illumina 27K/450K CpG sites, predicts DNA methylation age from beta values.

  shared independent methylation resnet comparative

• A universal mechanism ties genotype to phenotype in trinucleotide diseases.

  PMID 18039028 · PMC2082501 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A universal mechanism of somatic, length-dependent trinucleotide repeat expansion toward a disease-specific pathological threshold explains genotype-phenotype correlations common to trinucleotide diseases

  dominant recessive patients homozygous computer mathematical

• Proteomic identification of nitrated brain proteins in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a regional study.

  PMID 17760844 · PMC3823261 · Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Total protein nitration (3-NT immunoreactivity) is significantly increased in MCI hippocampus and IPL compared to age-matched control brain

  postmortem excised mci 2d-page sypro in-gel

• Longitudinal analysis of early stage sarcopenia in aging rhesus monkeys.

  PMID 18983905 · PMC2693938 · Experimental gerontology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  mtDNA deletion mutations induce ETS enzyme abnormalities (COXneg/SDHhyp phenotypes) linked to intra-fiber atrophy and fiber loss

  rhesus vastus muscle single dual hematoxylin immunohistochemistry

• Mutation screening of HSF4 in 150 age-related cataract patients.

  PMID 18941546 · PMC2569895 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Five new HSF4 sequence variants (c.1020-25G>A, c.1078A>G, c.1223C>T, c.1256+25C>T, c.1286C>T) were found in age-related cataract patients but not in 220 controls.

  peripheral hsf4b hsf4 genomic secondary sequence

• Differential protein expression in human corneal endothelial cells cultured from young and older donors.

  PMID 18852868 · PMC2565687 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Cultured HCEC protein profiles show age-related differences between young and older donors

  corneal 2-d trypsin-digested confluent 2-d gel maldi-tof

• Genome Wide Association Studies: identifying the genes that determine the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

  PMID 18621558 · PMC2697027 · European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery · 2008 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  AAA has a strong genetic component, with up to ten-fold increased risk in first-degree relatives of affected individuals

  aaa cases candidate genome-wide