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).

• Maternal Fine Particulate Matter Exposure Impairs Inguinal White Adipose Tissue Plasticity in Middle-Aged Male Mouse Offspring.

  PMID 41648986 · PMC12918713 · ACS nano · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Maternal PM2.5 exposure induces insulin resistance in middle-aged male (but not female) offspring despite normal body weight/obesity status

  pregnant iwat adsc whole-body body histology

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

  tcga simulated muscle-invasive ccrcc computational simulation-based deconvolution

• CellMap: precision mapping of cellular landscape in spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41505103 · PMC12781899 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  CellMap combines co-linearity of seed genes, a random forest model, and the linear assignment algorithm to achieve optimal assignment of single cells to spatial spots

  platforms single-cell expression computational scrna-seq spatial

• Integrated multi-omic atlas reveals the hierarchy of spatiotemporal regulatory networks of mouse gastrulation.

  PMID 41526381 · PMC12902073 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BioCRE, a novel bi-orientation regression algorithm, more accurately links genes to candidate cis-regulatory elements (CREs) than existing tools Signac and ArchR

  gastrulating gastrula gold-standard embryo single-cell computational promoter

• scSAMAC: saliency-adjusted masking induced attention contrastive learning for single-cell clustering.

  PMID 40131310 · PMC11934584 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 1 setups

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  scSAMAC integrates contrastive learning and negative binomial (NB) losses into a VAE, extracting features via contrastive unit similarity while preserving intrinsic data characteristics to enhance robustness and generalization in clustering.

  scrna-seq scrna-seq

• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

  admixtures cancer tumor bulk bulk admixture crowdsourced

• A cell atlas of the adult female Aedes aegypti midgut revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 38839790 · PMC11153528 · Scientific data · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Established a protocol for isolating single cells from Ae. aegypti midgut and performing scRNA-seq (dissociation, density-gradient purification, viability QC, 10x Genomics library prep and sequencing).

  dissociated scrna-seq merged single-cell viability computational

• 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

• Integrative transcriptomic and machine learning framework reveals candidate genes and potential mechanisms of aflatoxin B1 exposure in breast cancer.

  PMID 41688730 · PMC12982753 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  170 unique human AFB1 targets were identified by merging ChEMBL, SwissTargetPrediction, and PharmMapper predictions

  afb1 breast training candidate computational bulk weighted

• Alternative splicing dynamics during human cardiac development in vivo and in vitro.

  PMID 41483812 · PMC12925949 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPSC-CMs globally resemble prenatal cardiac cells at both the transcriptional and splicing levels

  ipsc-cms heart bulk ipsc-cm immunofluorescence single-cell bulk

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Single cell analysis reveals the roles and regulatory mechanisms of type-I interferons in Parkinson's disease.

  PMID 38566100 · PMC10985960 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglia, endothelial cells, and pericytes exhibit the highest IFN-I activity among PD midbrain cell types, with microglia and endothelial cells showing significantly elevated high-IFN-I-scoring proportions in PD versus controls

  midbrain single microglia substantia single-cell scenic monocle

• Identification of a PRDM1-regulated T cell network to regulate atherosclerotic plaque inflammation.

  PMID 41039608 · PMC12490039 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A distinct gene co-expression module with a prominent T cell signature is associated with unstable plaques.

  carotid calcified atherosclerotic cell-specific microarray single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Cell type- and species-specific regulation of hepatic lncRNAs by TCDD-activated aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

  PMID 41136526 · PMC12552753 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AHR-mediated lncRNA dysregulation may be a contributing mechanism in TCDD-elicited progression of steatosis to steatohepatitis with fibrosis

  liver mm39 bulk single-nuclei ahr

• Lipopolysaccharide distinctively alters human microglia transcriptomes to resemble microglia from Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

  PMID 36254682 · PMC9612871 · Disease models & mechanisms · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPSC-microglia show a shared core transcriptional response to ATPγS and to LPS+IFN-γ, suggesting a convergent mechanism of action

  ipsc-derived products microglia post-mortem single-cell ca2+ protein-protein

• Single-cell immunophenotyping identifies CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cells as a key immune population in cutaneous Lyme disease.

  PMID 41729083 · PMC12956012 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A clonally expanded CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cell population (subdivided into IFNGhi and IFNGint groups) is enriched in the EM lesion and shows an inflammatory, tissue-resident phenotype (GZMBlo/PRF1-) resembling tissue-enriched GZMK+ TteK cells

  whole-skin cd8+gzmk+ifnghi identified skin scrna-seq pseudobulk immune

• Single-cell multiome and enhancer connectome of human retinal pigment epithelium and choroid nominate causal variants in macular degeneration.

  PMID 41528844 · PMC12971065 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility (multiome) atlas of human RPE and choroid from control and AMD eyes

  rpe-choroid rpe arpe-19 scatac-seq joint h3k27ac activity-by-contact

• TRAP5 Inhibition Targeting Scar-Associated Macrophages Ameliorates Acute Kidney Injury to Chronic Kidney Disease Transition.

  PMID 41773735 · PMC13159109 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct scar-associated macrophage (SM) subset marked by high Acp5/TRAP5, Ctsk, Mmp9, and Spp1 emerges and predominates during the renal remodeling/CKD phase after AAI-induced AKI

  kidney ckd aai unilateral single-cell velocity pseudotime

• 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 · 8 setups

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  Mineralocorticoid 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 cells

  kidney live blood snrna-seq snatac-seq bulk

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

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

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  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