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).

• Clonal CD8(+) T cells populate the leptomeninges and coordinate with immune cells in human degenerative brain diseases.

  PMID 41593242 · PMC12864034 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The human leptomeninges harbor substantial numbers of clonally expanded, tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells (ZNF683-high, CXCR6+, PD-1+)

  postmortem leptomeninges scrna-seq-derived leptomeningeal single-cell flow imaging

• A new mRNA antigen vaccine induces potent B and T cell responses and in vivo protection against SARS-CoV-2.

  PMID 41876554 · PMC13172340 · NPJ vaccines · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The G1-C mRNA vaccine (RBD + membrane protein epitope) induces 8.2-fold higher WA1 RBD-specific IgG and 16.6-fold higher XBB.1.5 RBD-specific IgG than the RBD-only vaccine

  plasma pbmcs spleen bone elisa pseudovirus intracellular

• Gene regulatory network determinants of rapid recall in human memory CD4(+) T cells.

  PMID 41865369 · PMC13207208 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Memory CD4+ T cells show enhanced chromatin accessibility proximal to rapid-recall genes compared to naive cells

  blood-derived computational pseudobulk cd4+ single-nuclei maxatac grn

• Tumour-intrinsic features shape T cell differentiation through precursor to symptomatic multiple myeloma.

  PMID 41644568 · PMC12982522 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MM is not characterized by T cell exhaustion but by antigen-driven terminal memory differentiation, unlike solid cancers

  bone cd69+ cd8+ smm single-cell cite-seq gene

• Robust and efficient annotation of cell states through gene signature scoring.

  PMID 41708334 · PMC12951948 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Established scoring methods (Seurat, SCANPY, UCell, JASMINE) fail to provide robust and comparable score distributions across diverse signatures and experimental conditions, precluding accurate unsupervised cell-state annotation.

  pbmc colorectal esophageal crc scrna-seq cross-implementation signature

• UBD: incorporating uncertainty in cell type proportion estimates from bulk samples to infer cell-type-specific profiles.

  PMID 41520227 · PMC12895075 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Existing CTS deconvolution methods (e.g., CIBERSORTx, TCA, bMIND, CellDMC, HBI) require cell type proportions that are in practice only estimated, not known, introducing unaccounted uncertainty into CTS inference.

  simulated rosmap onek1k bulk simulation-based cell-type-specific type

• Cell neighborhood topology directs rare cell population identification.

  PMID 41912521 · PMC13199379 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RareQ is a framework that quantifies neighborhood connectivity (Q), a cell-specific measure of kNN-graph cliquishness, to detect rare cell populations from single-cell and spatial omics data

  downsampled pbmc brain simulated scrna-seq cite-seq single-cell

• OTMODE: an optimal transport theory-based framework for identifying differential features in single-cell multi-omics data.

  PMID 41335419 · PMC12766913 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OTMODE, using an unbalanced Sinkhorn algorithm and Wald test, improves differential feature identification in single-cell multi-omics data

  simulated classical degs naive simulated bulk real

• Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics Characterizes Immune Microenvironment During Mouse Liver Aging.

  PMID 42010880 · PMC13096584 · Aging cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cells are the immune cell population with the most pronounced transcriptomic alterations during liver aging

  liver nash cirrhotic hcc scrna-seq snrna-seq stereo-seq

• FLASH-MM: fast and scalable single-cell differential expression analysis using linear mixed-effects models.

  PMID 41644528 · PMC12982622 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FLASH-MM produces LMM parameter estimates identical to lmer (lme4) up to the sixth decimal place while being 50- to 140-fold faster as sample size increases from 20,000 to 120,000 cells

  simulated same healthy female-biased simulated comparative single-cell

• Development of a pediatric immune cell atlas and characterization of CD4+ T cells in food allergy.

  PMID 42025535 · PMC13105851 · Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A pediatric single-cell PBMC reference atlas was developed from 57 healthy children across 8 public scRNA-seq studies.

  pbmcs cd3+ cd4+ memory scrna-seq pseudobulk bulk

• Ultra-precision deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics decodes immune heterogeneity and fate-defining programs in tissues.

  PMID 41862467 · PMC13168514 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  UCASpatial is a novel deconvolution algorithm that uses Shannon entropy-based gene weighting combined with weighted non-negative least squares to estimate cell-type composition from spatial transcriptomics data

  simulated colorectal hippocampus ear simulated runtime spatial

• omnideconv: a unifying framework for using and benchmarking single-cell-informed deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41582216 · PMC12837286 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  omnideconv is an R package providing a unified interface to twelve second-generation deconvolution methods (AutoGeneS, BayesPrism, Bseq-SC, Bisque, CDseq, CIBERSORTx, CPM, DWLS, MOMF, MuSiC, SCDC, Scaden)

  blood-derived pbmc blood spleen bulk scrna-seq pseudo-bulk

• Annotation-free prediction of immunotherapy response in melanoma using single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41758825 · PMC12948085 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AI-based predictive models built on unannotated scRNA-seq data (cell-by-gene expression matrices) can classify melanoma patients as ICI responders vs. non-responders

  cd45+ scrna-seq independent scrna-seq single-gene-level pathway-level

• Prior-guided factorization for reliable imputation of scRNA-seq data.

  PMID 41860953 · PMC13004523 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scZN models scRNA-seq counts as a mixture of a two-state (Gamma-Poisson/negative binomial) transcriptional bursting process and dropout, formalized via a zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) and solved as constrained nonnegative matrix factorization into a cell-to-cell-type assignment matrix and a cell-type expression matrix

  ercc real randomly brain scrna-seq cell-cycle k-nn

• Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus infection causes chronic neurobehavioral outcomes, cellular remodeling, and hippocampal single-cell transcriptomic changes.

  PMID 41950299 · PMC13089902 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  VEEV infection causes persistent motor dysfunction, memory impairment, and reduced anxiety-like behavior up to 106 DPI

  c57bl pooled hippocampal scrna-seq elevated novel modified