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).

• 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.

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• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Fourteen gene modules were consistently associated with ReHo across three independent fMRI datasets.

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• Mouse-Geneformer: A deep learning model for mouse single-cell transcriptome and its cross-species utility.

  PMID 40106407 · PMC11964219 · PLoS genetics · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Mouse-Geneformer, a Transformer Encoder model pre-trained via masked-token self-supervised learning on mouse-Genecorpus-20M, was successfully constructed following the original human Geneformer architecture.

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• 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

  Has reproduction · 55

  Microglia, endothelial cells, and pericytes exhibit the highest type I interferon (IFN-I) activity among PD midbrain cell types, with microglia showing markedly higher activity in PD.

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• Smart spatial omics (S2-omics) optimizes region of interest selection to capture molecular heterogeneity in diverse tissues.

  PMID 41298871 · PMC12662399 · Nature cell biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  S2-omics is an end-to-end workflow that automatically selects ROIs from H&E histology images to maximize molecular information content for spatial omics profiling.

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• 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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• comBO: A combined human bone and lympho-myeloid bone marrow organoid for preclinical modeling of hematopoietic disorders.

  PMID 41734765 · PMC7618947 · Cell stem cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 65

  comBO is a single iPSC differentiation generating lymphoid, myeloid, vascular, mesenchymal stromal, and functional osteo/adipogenic lineages within one organoid

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• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

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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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• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

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• 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

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

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• 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

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  huSA is a publicly accessible database integrating data from 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets, including 1434 scRNA-seq, 63 spatial transcriptomics, and 1502 bulk RNA-seq samples

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

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

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  COVID-19 and HLH share immunological pathways, yielding 237 common up-regulated DEGs dominated by cytokine/chemokine signaling and neutrophil-mediated immune responses.

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• Exploring the prognostic and diagnostic value of lactylation-related genes in sepsis.

  PMID 39367086 · PMC11452377 · Scientific reports · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Intersecting sepsis-associated differentially expressed genes with a curated list of 332 lactylation genes yields 55 sepsis-related lactylation genes.

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• Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19.

  PMID 40170038 · PMC11963311 · BMC medical genomics · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction

  The nasal methylome shows differential DNA methylation in intergenic regions and low methylated regions (LMRs), highlighting distal regulatory/enhancer-like elements in COVID-19 gene regulation

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• 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

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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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• Molecular subtype of recurrent implantation failure reveals distinct endometrial etiology of female infertility.

  PMID 40660214 · PMC12257665 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  RIF endometrial samples segregate into two reproducible molecular subtypes: an immune-driven subtype (RIF-I) and a metabolic-driven subtype (RIF-M)

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• 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

  Has reproduction · 68

  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

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• A genome-wide association analysis identifies 16 novel susceptibility loci for carpal tunnel syndrome.

  PMID 30833571 · PMC6399342 · Nature communications · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  16 genome-wide significant susceptibility loci for CTS were identified in UK Biobank

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