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).

• 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.

  high-grade lung hgsoc healthy single-cell matched doublet

• CanCellCap: robust cancer cell capture across tissue types on single-cell RNA-seq data by multi-domain learning.

  PMID 40739511 · PMC12312500 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CanCellCap identifies cancer cells in scRNA-seq data across 13 tissue types, 23 cancer types, and 7 sequencing platforms with 0.977 average accuracy

  cancer testing sequencing unseen scrna-seq spatial

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a noteworthy subpopulation exerting a pivotal influence on CC differentiation and progression

  cervical tcga siha scrna-seq bulk rt-qpcr

• Interpretable and integrative analysis of single-cell multiomics with scMKL.

  PMID 40770488 · PMC12328712 · Communications biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  scMKL outperforms SVM, EasyMKL, MLP, and XGBoost in classification accuracy (AUROC) across multiple single-cell cancer datasets

  mcf-7 t-47d small prostate 10x scrna-seq sciatac-seq

• Migratory Tumor Cells Cooperate with Cancer Associated Fibroblasts in Hormone Receptor-Positive and HER2-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 38892065 · PMC11172245 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HR+/HER2-BC tumor epithelial cells comprise four single-cell-defined functional (SC-f) subtypes: migratory, secretory, proliferating, and dysfunctional.

  hr+ epcam-sorted tumor tcga-brca droplet sidr-seq bulk

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

  PMID 41417875 · PMC12795466 · PLoS computational biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  DAGFormer constructs cellular neighbor graphs using diverse topological strategies to represent intercellular interactions for drug response prediction

  pan-cancer jhu006 scc47 pc9 bulk scrna-seq

• Enhancing cell subpopulation discovery in cancer by integrating single-cell transcriptome and expressed variants.

  PMID 41647537 · PMC12869734 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  scCluster, an end-to-end deep clustering model integrating gene expression and expressed variant (eSNP) features, stratifies cell subpopulations in cancer scRNA-seq data.

  raw real-world expressed gene deep

• 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

• Intratumoral heterogeneity in microsatellite instability status at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41767255 · PMC12936829 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A novel computational (Snakemake) pipeline quantifies intratumoral heterogeneity in MSI status at single-cell resolution

  colorectal cancer aggregated msisensor-rna single-cell cnv-based

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• 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

  tcga paired thbs2+ scrna-seq wgcna scrna-seq gsea

• Pan-cancer evaluation of regulated cell death to predict overall survival and immune checkpoint inhibitor response.

  PMID 38538696 · PMC10973470 · NPJ precision oncology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RCD score, defined as the sum of ssGSEA scores of 18 RCD signatures, quantifies overall RCD signaling in a sample

  tcga gtex scrna-seq cancer bulk scrna-seq transcriptomic

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• Hypoxia-associated genes as predictors of outcomes in gastric cancer: a genomic approach.

  PMID 40129974 · PMC11931070 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A prognostic model built from five H1-specific hypoxia-associated transcription factors (EHF, EIF1AD, GLA, KEAP1, MAGED2) predicts overall survival in STAD, with high-risk patients showing significantly worse OS.

  gastric gene scrna-seq tcga single-cell wgcna cell-cell

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex