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).

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• FineST: contrastive learning integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics for nuclei-resolved ligand-receptor analysis.

  PMID 41839892 · PMC13201544 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FineST, a bimodal contrastive learning model integrating histology (Virchow2 ViT features) and spatial gene expression, enables nuclei-resolved high-resolution RNA imputation.

  colorectal crc breast he-stained spatial type ccc

• Spatial multi-omics unveils the monoclonal origin, neuroendocrine plasticity, and microenvironment niches in combined small-cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41966692 · PMC13130634 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Different histologic components within cSCLC tumors share a monoclonal origin

  ffpe sections tumor luad multi-region spatial single-nucleus

• Spatial transcriptomics unveils immune cellular ecosystems associated with patient survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

  PMID 42010788 · PMC13102037 · Oncoimmunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  DLBCL tissues are organized into six recurrent, spatially defined cellular ecosystems (Cell-Eco) with distinct immune compositions, transcriptional programs, and neighborhood architectures.

  dlbcl cd45+ spots scrna-seq spatial scrna-seq cell-type

• Spatial gene expression analysis reveals drivers of extremely early lymph node metastasis in breast cancer.

  PMID 41578129 · PMC12932634 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Identified 30 isolated tumor cells (ITCs) in a clinically metastasis-negative tumor-draining lymph node, representing the initial metastatic seeding event, spanning ~200 μm

  dissected same tumor xenium-derived bulk enzymatic whole-genome

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of human skin anatomy.

  PMID 41872488 · PMC13083264 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH-based spatial atlas of ~1.2 million cells resolves 45 cell types across 114 samples and 15 anatomic sites in normal human skin

  normal skin gtex matched merfish scrna-seq bulk

• Reconstructing cell-cell interaction network in single-cell spatial transcriptomics via directed heterogeneous graph autoencoder.

  PMID 41999209 · PMC13189858 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DualCellChat, a directed heterogeneous graph autoencoder, reconstructs a complete and accurate CCI network from incomplete single-cell spatial transcriptomics

  visual hypothalamic olfactory breast single-cell cci benchmarking

• AICellType: a large language model-based platform for accurate cell type annotation.

  PMID 42001469 · PMC13092268 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Claude 3.5 Sonnet achieved the best overall performance among 79 benchmarked LLMs for cell type annotation, balancing accuracy, robustness, speed, and cost-efficiency

  single-cell immune pbmc in-house llm-based scrna-seq spatial

• Interpretable, flexible and spatially aware integration of multiple spatial transcriptomics datasets from diverse sources.

  PMID 42045691 · PMC13175893 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  INSPIRE is a deep-learning method that unifies adversarial learning with a GNN-based encoder and integrated NMF to interpretably integrate multiple spatial transcriptomics datasets

  synthetic dorsolateral brain cortex simulated visium spatial

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptome analysis reveals the potential therapeutic targets for testicular sex cord-stromal cell tumor.

  PMID 42057139 · PMC13130799 · Biomarker research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor areas of TSCST show significantly low expression of immune cell genes, indicating an immune-cold tumor microenvironment

  fresh fetal paraffin-embedded paraffin single-nucleus scrna-seq spatial

• Resolving sensitivity, specificity and signal contamination in Xenium spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 42062553 · PMC13259927 · Nature methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Xenium data show strong consistency across patients and technical replicates, with little technical variation between platforms

  ffpe matched xenium xenium single-nucleus immunohistochemistry

• SA2E: spatial-aware auto-encoder for cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41863296 · PMC13070677 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SA2E is a spatial-aware auto-encoder framework for cell-type deconvolution that does not require predefined cell-type biomarkers

  olfactory legacy breast brain simulated real scrna-seq

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Spatiotemporal dynamics of spermatogenesis: insights from high-resolution spatial transcriptomics and pseudotime trajectories in mouse testes.

  PMID 41602862 · PMC12832764 · Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Salus-STS (1 μm resolution) combined with the Salus Cellbins Algorithm enables accurate subcellular segmentation of individual testicular cells in dense tissue

  testicular testis seminiferous top high-resolution integration pseudotime

• transFusion: a novel comprehensive platform for integration analysis of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41645434 · PMC12930851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  transFusion is a comprehensive, web-based platform for integrated analysis of scRNA-seq and 10x Visium spatial transcriptomics data requiring no parameter configuration

  breast scrna-seq 10x cellphonedb

• HRCHY-CytoCommunity identifies hierarchical tissue organization in cell-type spatial maps.

  PMID 41764165 · PMC13065825 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  HRCHY-CytoCommunity is an end-to-end graph neural network framework that jointly identifies multi-level (coarse tissue compartment and fine cellular neighborhood) tissue structures from cell-type spatial maps using differentiable graph pooling, adaptive edge pruning, and consistency/balance regularization.

  healthy colorectal simulated breast codex visium merfish

• Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal That TXNIP and BIRC3 Contribute to Human Prostate Tumor Progression.

  PMID 41972735 · PMC13072731 · Cells · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TXNIP and BIRC3 are established as spatially restricted tumor-niche genes associated with metabolic stress and inflammatory survival pathways

  prostate tcga-prad integration single-cell spatial pseudotime

• Single-cell spatial analysis stratifies lung adenocarcinoma with rare actionable mutations and reveals immune-modulatory cellular crosstalk.

  PMID 42013848 · PMC13198233 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus meta-program (MP) expression patterns stratify LUAD patients with rare and reference oncogenic mutations into ICI-MP-H and ICI-MP-L subgroups reflecting differential predicted ICI benefit

  luad matched tcga epithelial single-cell multiplex bulk