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).

• Cell Specific eQTL Analysis without Sorting Cells.

  PMID 25955312 · PMC4425538 · PLoS genetics · 2015 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  A genotype x predicted-cell-count interaction (GxE) meta-analysis across whole blood datasets can detect neutrophil-specific cis-eQTLs without cell sorting

  blood neutrophils cis-eqtl cell-count rna-seq

• Systems spatiotemporal dynamics of traumatic brain injury at single-cell resolution reveals humanin as a therapeutic target.

  PMID 35951114 · PMC9372016 · Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 98

  Coordinated gene expression patterns across cell types are disrupted and re-organized by mTBI with distinct regional, cellular, and temporal (24-h vs 7-day) specificity.

  hippocampus frontal peripheral cell-type single-cell svm-based ligand-receptor

• Pleiotropic effects of MORC2 derive from its epigenetic signature.

  PMID 40302207 · PMC12782172 · Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  A MORC2-specific DNA methylation episignature exists that is universal across all MORC2-associated phenotypes and conserved across blood and fibroblast tissue

  blood fibroblasts fibroblast patient-derived methylation svm phenotype-specific

• Human methylome variation across Infinium 450K data on the Gene Expression Omnibus.

  PMID 33937763 · PMC8061458 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  Among annotated HM450K GEO samples, about two-thirds were from blood, one-quarter from brain, and about one-third were from cancer patients.

  hm450k geo seven dnam beadarray regular-expression-based

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

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 45

  Eight distinct T cell populations are identifiable in CRC tumor tissue and seven in peripheral blood by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data.

  tumor peripheral cd4+ eight single-cell unsupervised ligand-receptor

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

  hnscc pooled cd45+ cd8+ single-cell nhdp celda

• Machine learning algorithm predicts fibrosis-related blood diagnosis markers of intervertebral disc degeneration.

  PMID 37915003 · PMC10619283 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  CEP120 and SPDL1 are fibrosis-related diagnostic genes for IDD, identified via a random forest model from 29 differentially expressed fibrosis-related genes

  blood gse150408 prediction pbmcs bulk machine roc

• To Explore the Key Subgroup and Their Immune Microenvironment During the Formation of Coronary Plaque With scRNA-seq.

  PMID 40454289 · PMC12126265 · Cardiology research and practice · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 33

  C1 RACK1+ NK cells are a crucial subgroup for understanding coronary plaque formation, exhibiting the highest cell stemness/differentiation potential and positioned at the start of the pseudotime trajectory

  coronary scrna-seq five type single-cell doublet copy

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Following transient CD4 depletion, IL-21-producing Tfh cells do repopulate but are outnumbered by immunomodulatory CD4 T cells (Tregs, Th17), and IL-21+ frequency remains low within activated CD4 T cells.

  il-21-trfp cd44+ splenocytes chronically flow scrna-seq adoptive

• 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

  Has reproduction · 94

  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

• Single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling elucidate the kidney-protective mechanism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists.

  PMID 37906287 · PMC10760974 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Mineralocorticoid (DOCA) effects are established through open chromatin and target gene expression primarily in principal and connecting tubule cells, and to a lesser extent in distal convoluted tubule (DCT2) cells.

  kidney doca-salt serum heart single-nucleus bulk physiology

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  Endothelial cell-specific deletion of Adgrl2 impairs cerebrovascular integrity in mice

  wild-type cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Alginate oligosaccharides improve germ cell development and testicular microenvironment to rescue busulfan disrupted spermatogenesis.

  PMID 32194870 · PMC7053202 · Theranostics · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  AOS rescues busulfan-disrupted spermatogenesis in vivo by increasing the proportion of germ cells (spermatocytes and spermatids)

  icr spermatozoa testis plasma single-cell computer-assisted immunofluorescence

• The molecular landscape of sepsis severity in infants: enhanced coagulation, innate immunity, and T cell repression.

  PMID 38817614 · PMC11137207 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Most published adult/other-cohort sepsis gene signatures have limited utility for infant sepsis; only 2 of 7 achieved >80% accuracy in infants

  infant merged individual pairwise whole-blood coconut gene-signature

• 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

  Has reproduction · 50

  huSA is a comprehensive, publicly accessible database integrating bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, and spatial transcriptomics data across 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets

  skin scrna-seq scrna-seq transcription cell-cell

• Caloric Restriction Reprograms Adipose Tissues in Rhesus Monkeys.

  PMID 41042069 · PMC12686577 · Aging cell · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 66

  At baseline, SAT and VAT transcriptomes are highly similar, with only ~1% of genes (30 genes, adjusted p<0.05) differentially expressed between depots in Controls

  subcutaneous sat rhesus bulk gsea xcell

• The Multi-State Epigenetic Pacemaker enables the identification of combinations of factors that influence DNA methylation.

  PMID 39549198 · PMC11979089 · GeroScience · 2025 · 9 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 54

  The Multi-State Epigenetic Pacemaker (MSEPM) can accurately model multiple methylation-associated factors (e.g., age, sex, cell-type) simultaneously.

  blood simulated methylation simulation

• Severe COVID-19 Shares a Common Neutrophil Activation Signature with Other Acute Inflammatory States.

  PMID 35269470 · PMC8909161 · Cells · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  COVID-19 and HLH share a transcriptional overlap of 239 unique common differentially expressed genes (DEGs), 237 of which are up-regulated

  patients pbmcs plasma derived bulk single-cell quantitative