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).

• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

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• Decoding the tumor microenvironment and molecular mechanism: unraveling cervical cancer subpopulations and prognostic signatures through scRNA-Seq and bulk RNA-seq analyses.

  PMID 38482016 · PMC10933018 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a key subpopulation that drives differentiation and progression of cervical carcinoma

  tumor tcga siha single-cell bulk rt-qpcr

• T Cells With Activated STAT4 Drive the High-Risk Rejection State to Renal Allograft Failure After Kidney Transplantation.

  PMID 35844542 · PMC9283858 · Frontiers in immunology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Unsupervised UMAP/Leiden clustering of 2,611 microarray datasets reveals 6 rejection states that diverge from traditional Banff clinical classification

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• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

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• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood.

  PMID 32396065 · PMC7237219 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scRNA-seq of Drosophila larval hemocytes across unwounded, wounded, and wasp-infested conditions resolves 17 clusters spanning plasmatocytes, crystal cells, lamellocytes, and a non-hemocyte population.

  drosophila single-cell quantitative bulk

• DAGFormer: A graph-based domain adaptation approach for single-cell cancer drug response prediction.

  PMID 41417875 · PMC12795466 · PLoS computational biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  DAGFormer, a graph-based domain adaptation framework integrating bulk and scRNA-seq data, predicts single-cell drug responses more accurately than existing methods.

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• huSA: a comprehensive database for multi-dimensional resolution of bulk, single cell and spatial transcription profiles in skin diseases.

  PMID 41719583 · PMC12923168 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  huSA is a publicly accessible database integrating data from 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets, including 1434 scRNA-seq, 63 spatial transcriptomics, and 1502 bulk RNA-seq samples

  skin scrna-seq single prurigo scrna-seq bulk spatial

• Assessing personalized molecular portraits underlying endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition within pulmonary arterial hypertension.

  PMID 39462326 · PMC11513636 · Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of PAH and control lung tissue identifies nine distinct cell populations with high heterogeneity in composition, function, distribution, and communication

  lung pah scrna-seq-derived endothelial scrna-seq bulk cell-cell

• Leveraging RNA-seq deconvolution to improve complex in vitro model characterization.

  PMID 40701251 · PMC12391696 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RNA-seq deconvolution can predict cell type proportions from bulk RNA-seq using scRNA-seq references, offering a useful characterization tool for CIVMs where single-cell methods are impractical

  intestine rodent duodenal neonatal bulk scrna-seq marker

• Proneural-mesenchymal antagonism dominates the patterns of phenotypic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

  PMID 38433919 · PMC10905000 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The four proposed GBM molecular subtypes (Proneural, Neural, Classical, Mesenchymal / NPC-like, OPC-like, AC-like, MES-like) are not mutually exclusive or independent of one another

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• Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2(+) cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 35547750 · PMC9065207 · Theranostics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

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• 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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• Unraveling the timeline of gene expression: A pseudotemporal trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 37994351 · PMC10663991 · F1000Research · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A reproducible R-based workflow combines Seurat (QC, clustering, integration), monocle3 (trajectory inference), and edgeR (pseudo-bulk time course analysis) to perform single-cell pseudotemporal time course analysis.

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• CD14(lo)CD301b(+) macrophages gathering as a proangiogenic marker in adipose tissues.

  PMID 39645040 · PMC11745947 · Journal of lipid research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cd14−/− mice exhibit a leaner body shape and are protected from HFD-induced obesity compared to WT mice

  epididymal adipose cd14low macrophage bulk scrna-seq pseudotime

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Genetic variation–based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on cancer scRNA-seq tissue using a pooled experimental design, achieving high recall at acceptable precision-recall tradeoffs in both high-CNV (HGSOC) and high-SNV (lung adenocarcinoma) cancers, even with extremely high doublet proportions.

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• Single-cell transcriptomics identifies Keap1-Nrf2 regulated collective invasion in a Drosophila tumor model.

  PMID 36321803 · PMC9708074 · eLife · 2022 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Follicle cell-specific Lgl knockdown (Lgl-KD) causes loss of apical-basal polarity and invasive multilayering of the follicular epithelium without long-distance metastasis

  drosophila single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• Enabling Single-Cell Drug Response Annotations from Bulk RNA-Seq Using SCAD.

  PMID 36762572 · PMC10104628 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  SCAD, a transfer learning framework integrating adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (ADDA), can infer single-cell drug sensitivities by transferring knowledge from bulk RNA-seq pharmacogenomic data (GDSC) to scRNA-seq target domains

  pan-cancer pc9 451lu a375 bulk scrna-seq computational