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).

• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Carcinoma cell profiles are distinct for each patient, while diverse microenvironmental (nonmalignant) subsets are shared across different patients.

  tumour single differentially seurat-identified single-cell differential gene

• Transcription network construction for large-scale microarray datasets using a high-performance computing approach.

  PMID 18366618 · PMC2386070 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RMT removes the random noise component of the gene expression correlation matrix by testing its eigenvalue statistics against a null hypothesis derived from a truly random correlation matrix

  yeast liver eight-node microarray k-means hybrid

• Molecular and Clinical Relevance of ZBTB38 Expression Levels in Prostate Cancer.

  PMID 32365491 · PMC7281456 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ZBTB38 mRNA expression is significantly lower in prostate cancer than in normal/benign prostate tissue, and further reduced in metastatic versus localised tumours

  localised tcga taylor metastatic microarray rna-sequencing clinico-pathological

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow is proposed, spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis, to overcome methodological inconsistencies in the field.

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Key genes AR, AKT1, UBC, CDH1, SMAD3, ROR1, and ROR2 are associated with chemotherapy resistance and poor prognosis in metastatic breast cancer

  breast tcga-brca geo gse40622 gene pan-cancer differential

• A Plastic EMP1+ to LGR5+ Cell State Conversion as a Bypass to KRASG12D Pharmacologic Inhibition in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41128661 · PMC12877754 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RMC-9945 exerts durable antitumor activity in early-stage liver metastasis but has diminished therapeutic effect in advanced metastatic disease

  aktp colorectal drug single-cell rnascope

• Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1β/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils.

  PMID 38358352 · PMC10903300 · Cancer research communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two main neutrophil subtypes exist in primary tumors: an activated subtype sharing transcriptomic signatures with healthy neutrophils, and a tumor-specific subtype.

  colorectal sorted integrated neutrophil scrna-seq bulk immunohistochemistry

• Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 39875825 · PMC11776150 · BMC bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Local averaging reveals expression-level-dependent biases that differ from sample to sample across all RNA-seq datasets studied, and are not corrected by conventional normalization (TPM/FPKM)

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• Proteomic interrogation of androgen action in prostate cancer cells reveals roles of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases.

  PMID 19763266 · PMC2740864 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Androgen treatment alters the whole-cell proteome of LNCaP prostate cancer cells

  lncap androgen prostate itraq mudpit immunoblot

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Gene Dosage Analysis on the Single-Cell Transcriptomes Linking Cotranslational Protein Targeting to Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 34577617 · PMC8472593 · Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A computational framework mapping single-cell Z-score expression to matched patient-level CNV data can identify recurrent, cross-cell-type copy-number-driven expression (dosage) events.

  tnbc independent cng-up breast single-cell gene network

• Generative and integrative modeling for transcriptomics with formalin fixed paraffin embedded material.

  PMID 41029822 · PMC12486589 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The negative binomial distribution best fits fRNA-seq transcript counts, with little evidence supporting zero-inflated extensions

  compendium ffpe simulated frna-seq statistical bulk integrity

• The use of laser capture microscopy in proteomics research--a review.

  PMID 15502248 · PMC3839334 · Disease markers · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LCM allows purification of specific, histologically defined cell populations from heterogeneous tissue for downstream proteomic analysis

  breast prostate esophageal head maldi-tof automated two-dimensional

• A candidate metastasis-associated DNA marker for ductal mammary carcinoma.

  PMID 12631399 · PMC154149 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RDA comparing normal and metastatic ductal breast carcinoma cell DNA identified 10 unique metastasis-associated DNA sequences (MADS) apparently lost in metastatic cells

  microdissected h&e-stained metastatic cloned representational single laser

• Out-of-frame CBX3::ALK fusion drives ALK activation and therapy response.

  PMID 41887222 · PMC13130619 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A CBX3::ALK out-of-frame fusion was identified in a patient with metastatic melanoma

  metastatic cutaneous tumor hek293t targeted immunohistochemistry fluorescence

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Next-generation sequencing.

  PMID 20030863 · PMC2797692 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Massively parallel sequencing can simultaneously capture base-pair mutations, copy number aberrations and somatic rearrangements of a cancer genome in a single experiment

  individuals metastatic acute oestrogen whole-exome whole-genome large-scale

• The diagnosis and management of pre-invasive breast disease: promise of new technologies in understanding pre-invasive breast lesions.

  PMID 14580250 · PMC314415 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ADH and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are precursor lesions molecularly similar to adjacent invasive breast cancer

  locally adh brca1 malignant array chromosome-based cdna

• Protocol for quantifying interaction patterns among genomic alterations in cancer.

  PMID 41686643 · PMC12915222 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Background-aware permutation strategies that constrain permutation per gene and per sample enable robust, scalable inference of condition-specific (context-aware) genetic interactions across cancer cohorts

  msk-met somatic copy-number binary

• Prostate cancer genomics: towards a new understanding.

  PMID 19104501 · PMC2721916 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multiple GWAS have identified over a dozen replicated germline SNPs each associated with a modest increase in prostate cancer risk

  germline families african-american combined genome-wide linkage admixture