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).

• MultiSP deciphers tissue structure and multicellular communication from spatial multi-omics data.

  PMID 41650976 · PMC13174227 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  MultiSP outperforms existing spatial and single-cell multi-omics integration methods in detecting biologically accurate spatial domains across multiple spatial multi-omics technologies and tissue types

  lymph embryo brain postnatal spatial misar-seq chromvar

• Genetic evidence supporting obesity as a risk factor for lung squamous cell carcinoma and the identification of MFAP1 as a shared genetic target.

  PMID 41820721 · PMC13096280 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BMI and LUSC show a significant positive genome-wide genetic correlation, robust to constrained-intercept sensitivity analysis and replicated by GNOVA.

  gwas gtex scrna-seq ldsc gnova ρ-hess

• 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 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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

  drosophila nothobranchius gallus heterocephalus bulk single-cell

• Roar: detecting alternative polyadenylation with standard mRNA sequencing libraries.

  PMID 27756200 · PMC5069797 · BMC bioinformatics · 2016 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Roar, a method using PRE/POST read counts around annotated APA sites to compute an m/M ratio and a ratio-of-ratios (roar) statistic, detects differential 3'UTR shortening/lengthening from standard RNA-seq libraries.

  testes normal gene rna-seq sapas cdna

• Unravelling Synaptic and Metabolic Mechanisms of Cognitive Resilience in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease Across Two Alzheimer's Disease Cohorts.

  PMID 41723778 · PMC12996523 · Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Integrating DEG, DET, and DUT analyses (rather than DEGs alone) provides a more comprehensive view of the molecular mechanisms of AsymAD, since some genes/transcripts are only detected by transcript-level methods.

  postmortem combined ppi hippocampus bulk functional protein-protein

• Microglia maintain structural integrity during fetal brain morphogenesis.

  PMID 38309258 · PMC10869139 · Cell · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic ATM-like microglia accumulate at two fetal cortical boundaries, the cortico-striato-amygdalar boundary (CSA) and cortico-septal boundary (CSB), resembling post-natal axon-tract-associated microglia (ATM)

  embryonic cx3cr1 fetal embryos single-cell immunolabeling phrodo

• Systems Analysis Reveals Ageing-Related Perturbations in Retinoids and Sex Hormones in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases.

  PMID 34680427 · PMC8533098 · Biomedicines · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  AD and PD patients can be stratified by transcriptomic clustering into three subclasses with distinct gene expression and metabolic profiles

  post-mortem brain zebrafish bulk single-cell unsupervised

• RNA Editing Alterations Define Disease Manifestations in the Progression of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE).

  PMID 36429012 · PMC9688714 · Cells · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  RNA-editing events mediated by APOBEC and ADAR deaminases are significantly reduced throughout the course of EAE disease progression

  brain rna-edited brain-isolated naïve rna-seq pathway pcr

• Integrative transcriptome-wide association analyses reveal PRKCG-linked GABAergic dysfunction in Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.

  PMID 41507195 · PMC12881518 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics strategy combined with TWAS reveals brain-region-specific molecular signatures and striking gene dysregulation concentrated in inhibitory neurons in an FXTAS mouse model.

  brain prefrontal pfc gabaergic bulk single-nuclei immunofluorescent

• Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain.

  PMID 41529688 · PMC7618834 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Sex differences in the Drosophila central brain do not result from large-scale transcriptional reprogramming, but from selective modifications within shared developmental lineages mediated by dsx and fru.

  drosophila central dsx+ dsx-gal4>mcd8 single-cell differential scenic

• Single-cell sequencing analysis and machine learning model reveal aberrant TIM-3 expression in microglia during Alzheimer's disease progression.

  PMID 41580850 · PMC12911240 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A TIM-3+ microglial subset drives AD pathogenesis through a dual mechanism: sustained neuroinflammation via TNF-α/NF-κB and IL-6/JAK/STAT3 signaling, and impaired amyloid-β clearance linked to PI3K-AKT and FcγR pathways

  brain overlapping transcriptomic patients single-cell bulk kegg

• Aberrant mRNA splicing and impaired hippocampal neurogenesis in Grin2b mutant mice.

  PMID 41675057 · PMC12886552 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Grin2b+/C456Y mice show large-scale, age-dependent brain transcriptomic changes, peaking at 4 weeks postnatally

  brain hippocampus neuronal bulk trade gene

• Tensor-cell2cell v2 unravels coordinated dynamics of protein- and metabolite-mediated cell-cell communication.

  PMID 41719185 · PMC12937581 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Tensor-cell2cell v2 implements a non-negative coupled tensor component analysis (CTCA) that jointly factorizes protein- and metabolite-mediated communication tensors sharing context, sender, and receiver dimensions while keeping ligand-type-specific (private) dimensions separate.

  cortical paired single-cell protein-mediated metabolite-mediated

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  sctRNA-seq datasets (particularly LCM-seq) show measurable off-target mRNA contamination from surrounding cell types

  brain neocortex cortex allen lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• Social complexity, life-history and lineage influence the molecular basis of castes in vespid wasps.

  PMID 36828829 · PMC9958023 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A shared genetic toolkit of caste-associated genes exists across vespid wasp species spanning different levels of social complexity

  vespid single-copy brain caste-biased bulk orthology principal

• A comparative study of techniques for differential expression analysis on RNA-Seq data.

  PMID 25119138 · PMC4132098 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  edgeR performs slightly better than DESeq and Cuffdiff2 in terms of the ability to uncover true positives.

  brain neurospheres lymphoblastoid simulation single-end paired-end rna-seq

• Pharmacogenomic screening identifies and repurposes leucovorin and dyclonine as pro-oligodendrogenic compounds in brain repair.

  PMID 39537633 · PMC11561360 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A pharmacogenomic scoring strategy (OligoScore) combining transcriptomic signatures and curated oligodendrogenesis gene sets identifies compounds with pro-oligodendrogenic transcriptional activity

  brain neonatal gene cerebellar bulk transcriptomic pharmacogenomic

• Variant-resolved prediction of context-specific isoform variation with a graph-based attention model.

  PMID 41547351 · PMC13069856 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Otari, an attention-based graph neural network trained on long-read transcriptomes across 30 tissues/brain regions, predicts tissue-specific differential isoform abundance

  tissues genomic gtex hgmd long-read variant splice

• TSniffer: unbiased de novo identification of RNA editing sites and quantification of editing activity in RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41549280 · PMC12838065 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  TSniffer is a novel tool that uses a rolling window Fisher's exact test approach to identify RNA editing sites (TsRegions) de novo in RNA-seq data without relying on editing databases or two-sample differential comparison.

  type hela mm10 brain rna-seq genomic database

• Heterozygous ADAR mutant mice exhibit RNA sensing-dependent neuroinflammation and phenotypes associated with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome.

  PMID 41704749 · PMC12907846 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A heterozygous Adar G1007R (mouse G956R/G567) mouse model recapitulates the genetic and inflammatory features of human ADAR G1007R AGS patients

  brain computational coronal adar1 real-time bulk ingenuity