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).

• 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

• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• stDyer-image improves clustering analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics and proteomics with morphological images.

  PMID 41692960 · PMC12960910 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  stDyer-image directly associates the image modality with predicted cluster labels rather than using images to enhance/impute gene expression data

  non-small morphology brain breast spatial image

• Spatial single-cell multiomics reveals peripheral immune dysfunction in Parkinson's and inflammatory bowel disease.

  PMID 41545356 · PMC12847817 · NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Spatial single-cell multiomic imaging of sigmoid colon reveals both shared and unique features of peripheral immune dysfunction in PD and IBD

  sigmoid plasma stool epithelial cosmx meso gene

• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

  dorsolateral dlpfc nanostring spatial cell-type multi-platform

• Differentiation in the human urothelia is defined by distinct alternative polyadenylation.

  PMID 41533515 · PMC12937501 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APA introduces a major layer of transcriptomic diversity during urothelial differentiation, largely independent of changes in mRNA levels

  urothelial urothelial-specific ureter hek293t single-cell poly fluorescence

• A spatially resolved human glioblastoma atlas reveals distinct cellular and molecular patterns of anatomical niches.

  PMID 41714633 · PMC13031279 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GBM exhibits distinct cellular and molecular patterns organized by anatomical niche, with malignant, vascular, and immune compartments showing region-specific spatial associations

  gbm glioma single-cell scrna-seq cite-seq spatial

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• Tumor cell villages define the co-dependency of tumor and microenvironment in liver cancer.

  PMID 41723121 · PMC12932787 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Different tumor cell transcriptomic states organize into distinct spatial clusters, or 'villages', each supported by a unique surrounding microenvironment

  liver malignant non-malignant tumor single-cell immunofluorescence non-negative

• Reconstructing single-cell resolution from spatial transcriptomics with CellRefiner.

  PMID 41760664 · PMC13066420 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CellRefiner is a physical/particle-based model (subcellular element method) that integrates scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data to reconstruct single-cell resolution spatial data

  hypothalamic embryo hippocampus visual merfish seqfish slide-seqv2

• A muscle-centered hierarchical breakdown underlies flight loss during silkworm domestication.

  PMID 41716997 · PMC12915254 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Flight loss in B. mori results from a muscle-centered collapse of a three-tiered hierarchical genetic module comprising mitochondrial energy production (COX3/ND1), wing vein patterning (Dally/CtBP), and flight muscle specification (Yki)

  wing wings flight mandarina single-cell spatial velocity

• 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

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• 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 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial 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 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• 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.

  gastric colorectal additional breast xenium visium histology

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution.

  PMID 41388990 · PMC12776951 · The Plant cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH was successfully optimized for wheat inflorescence tissue, enabling localization of a 200-gene panel to cellular resolution across 4 developmental stages

  microdissected cryosectioned wheat merfish-imaged bulk merfish single-nucleus

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x