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).

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

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• An open RNA-Seq data analysis pipeline tutorial with an example of reprocessing data from a recent Zika virus study.

  PMID 27583132 · PMC4972086 · F1000Research · 2016 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  An open-source, reproducible RNA-seq pipeline delivered as an IPython notebook and Docker image can process raw RNA-seq data into interactive PCA/HC plots, enrichment results, and small-molecule predictions with minimal setup overhead

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• CASK loss of function differentially regulates neuronal maturation and synaptic function in human induced cortical excitatory neurons.

  PMID 36262316 · PMC9574418 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Immature (day 7) CASK KO induced neurons show increased dendritic complexity/neurite overgrowth and upregulated gene networks for cell adhesion, neurite outgrowth, and cytoskeletal organization.

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• Single-Cell Sequencing of iPSC-Dopamine Neurons Reconstructs Disease Progression and Identifies HDAC4 as a Regulator of Parkinson Cell Phenotypes.

  PMID 30503143 · PMC6327112 · Cell stem cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of GBA-N370S iPSC-derived dopamine neurons identifies a progressive axis of gene expression variation leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress.

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• 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.

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• A HML6 endogenous retrovirus on chromosome 3 is upregulated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis motor cortex.

  PMID 34253796 · PMC8275748 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The ERV locus HML6_3p21.31c is significantly upregulated in ALS post-mortem motor cortex after multiple-testing correction

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• Mechanical compression induces neuronal apoptosis, reduces synaptic activity, and promotes glial neuroinflammation in mice and humans.

  PMID 41481451 · PMC12773780 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Chronic mechanical compression (0.14 kPa) directly induces neuronal apoptosis in human iPSC-derived neurons cocultured with murine glia

  ipsc-derived gfp-expressing mglia astrocytes hoechst gfp+ immunofluorescence

• A cellular epigenetic classification system for glioblastoma.

  PMID 41499453 · PMC13128495 · Neuro-oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ITHresolveGBM, a hierarchical two-step NMF method, deconvolutes bulk GBM DNA methylation profiles into three non-malignant (immune, glial, neuronal) and three malignant components

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• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• bayesReact: expression-coupled regulatory motif analysis detects microRNA activity across cancers, tissues, and at the single-cell level.

  PMID 41657247 · PMC12884093 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  bayesReact is a novel fully Bayesian generative model for inferring regulatory motif (e.g., miRNA) activity from bulk or single-cell expression data

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• 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

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• ZFHX4 is necessary for dopaminergic neuron differentiation and controls cell cycle by regulating LIN28A.

  PMID 42208531 · PMC13261933 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ZFHX4 is a super-enhancer-controlled transcription factor induced during mDAN specification

  ipsc-derived smnpcs postmortem cut&tag bulk shrna

• Cell fixation and preservation for droplet-based single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 28526029 · PMC5438562 · BMC biology · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Methanol fixation stabilizes and preserves dissociated cells for weeks without compromising single-cell RNA-seq data quality

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• Microglia-containing cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of neurological diseases.

  PMID 36936782 · PMC10014280 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel protocol using FGF/EGF/heparin growth factor supplementation and 10% CO2 culture generates cerebral organoids containing neurons, astrocytes, and microglia from iPSCs/hESCs

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• Epigenetic loss of heterogeneity from low to high grade localized prostate tumours.

  PMID 34911933 · PMC8674326 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Low-grade (Gleason pattern 3) prostate cancer cells share chromatin accessibility features that are lost in high-grade (Gleason pattern 4) tumours

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• Distinct sympathetic projections to brown fat regulate thermogenesis and glucose tolerance.

  PMID 41559445 · PMC12945688 · Nature metabolism · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Distinct sympathetic neuron subpopulations in the stellate ganglion (SG) innervating iBAT parenchyma versus its vasculature mediate separable functions of the depot.

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• Unbalanced chromatin binding of Polycomb complexes drives neurodevelopmental disorders.

  PMID 41653922 · PMC13034722 · Molecular cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Heterozygous de novo missense mutations in RING1 and RNF2 are found in individuals with neurodevelopmental/intellectual disability phenotypes

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• ASCL1 promotes nuclear shrinkage in transdifferentiation by suppressing NUP37.

  PMID 41759523 · PMC12985393 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  ASCL1-mediated transdifferentiation (AMp) of human fibroblasts to induced neurons causes marked nuclear shrinkage while cell size remains unchanged

  mrc5 ag22056 ipsc-derived embryonic immunofluorescence single-cell rt-qpcr