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 type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

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• 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.

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• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  The FEM algorithm converts each cell's gene expression matrix (GEM) into a functional expression matrix by applying Fisher's exact test enrichment per cell and per gene set, then encoding adjusted p-values as information content.

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• Large-scale integration of single-cell transcriptomic data captures transitional progenitor states in mouse skeletal muscle regeneration.

  PMID 34773081 · PMC8589952 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 92

  Large-scale integration of 111 sc/snRNAseq datasets captures rare, transitional myogenic progenitor states (commitment and fusion) that are poorly represented in individual datasets.

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• 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 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

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• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• 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

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

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

  Has reproduction · 96

  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.

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• Research and experimental verification on the mechanisms of cellular senescence in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 38435998 · PMC10909353 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  TNBC can be classified into three molecular subtypes (clusters 1, 2, 3) based on cellular senescence-related pathways, with distinct prognoses (cluster 1 best, then 2, then 3).

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• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 5 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signatures with bulk HCC transcriptomes to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets and infer cell-type-specific gene expression.

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• Identification of succinylation-related genes in bladder cancer: integration of single-cell and transcriptomic data.

  PMID 42220482 · PMC13218921 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  KCTD16, CD3D and GSDMB are succinylation-related prognostic genes in BLCA

  paired tcga-blca geo gse135337 bulk single-cell rt-qpcr

• 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.

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• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

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• 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

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  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.

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• 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

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• GRAMD1B is a regulator of lipid homeostasis, autophagic flux and phosphorylated tau.

  PMID 40204713 · PMC11982250 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GRAMD1B is increased in excitatory neurons of human neural organoids (HNOs) carrying the MAPT R406W mutation

  neural hno single-cell immunofluorescence western

• Single-cell dissection of chronic lung allograft dysfunction reveals convergent and distinct fibrotic mechanisms.

  PMID 41122970 · PMC12581678 · JCI insight · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  CLAD harbors disease-specific cellular subsets including Fibro.AT2 cells, exhausted CD8+ T cells, and superactivated macrophages

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