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).

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• Identification and Mechanisms of Osteocyte Subsets Involved in the Pathological Progression of Osteoporosis.

  PMID 41250977 · PMC12850396 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell sequencing of mouse femurs identifies six distinct osteocyte subsets (C1-C6) after excluding contaminating erythroid clusters

  femoral osteocyte dmp1-cre+ bhr-ocys single-cell monocle flow

• Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cell Transcriptomes Reveal a Unique Genetic Signature across Different Types of Cancer.

  PMID 36232369 · PMC9569723 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Common genes shared across five cancer types differ from those found in nonmalignant tissue-resident T-cells for each subset (CD4-T, CD8-T, Treg)

  breast lung colorectal melanoma single-cell gene reactome

• 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 and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• 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

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Single-cell analysis of signalling and transcriptional responses to type I interferons.

  PMID 41896367 · PMC13172048 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Different immune cell types show cell-type-specific patterns of STAT phosphorylation and gene expression changes in response to type I IFN

  freshly pbmcs mass rt-qpcr bulk

• 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

• Single-Cell RNA-Seq Profiling of Transposable Element Expression in Human Peripheral Blood Cells During Viral Infections.

  PMID 41683713 · PMC12898442 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TE expression is significantly higher in PBMCs from viral infection cohorts (and recovered individuals) compared to healthy controls

  pbmcs pbmc cd8+ single-cell cell-type expression

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• 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 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• DLX2 marks an immunosuppressive dendritic-cell program that reshapes cytotoxic immunity and marks a tolerogenic microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41761000 · PMC13043845 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuroactive ligand–receptor signaling is among the most significantly upregulated pathways in LUAD relative to normal lung tissue.

  tcga-luad tcga luad dendritic-cell bulk survival pan-cancer

• LIMPACAT: Multi-omics attention transformer for immune prediction in liver cancer using whole-slide imaging.

  PMID 41511965 · PMC12788640 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  LIMPACAT, a multiple instance learning attention transformer, predicts immune cell levels relevant to HCC prognosis directly from whole-slide images

  hcc simulated pbmc tcga-lihc scrna-seq type deconvolution

• EpiXFormer: a cross-attention neural network for predicting cell type-specific transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 41527854 · PMC12796812 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EpiXFormer achieves high accuracy (mean AUROC ~0.99) predicting binding sites of both TFs and non-sequence-specific DBPs across 199 DBP-cell type pairs

  dbps tfs common ctcf deep comparative feature-ablation

• Integrative omics and experimental validation reveal METTL17 and SLC27A1 as biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets in chronic kidney disease.

  PMID 41766913 · PMC12946038 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  METTL17 and SLC27A1 are identified as consistently dysregulated key genes bridging mitochondrial dysfunction and macrophage polarization in CKD

  kidney peripheral uuo bulk single-cell cibersort

• Motif discovery in promoters of genes co-localized and co-expressed during myeloid cells differentiation.

  PMID 19059999 · PMC2632922 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel multi-step computational method (built on approximate pattern enumeration, binomial over-representation scoring with FDR correction, and k-medoids clustering) can identify over-represented motifs in a selected set of promoters relative to a background promoter set.

  myeloid reference selected genome-localized microarray promoter k-medoids

• A cellular epigenetic classification system for glioblastoma.

  PMID 41499453 · PMC13128495 · Neuro-oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ITHresolveGBM, a hierarchical two-step NMF method, deconvolutes bulk GBM DNA methylation profiles into three non-malignant (immune, glial, neuronal) and three malignant components

  gbm healthy pseudo-bulk tcga illumina single-cell deconvolution

• 5-methylcytosine RNA modification regulators-based patterns and features of immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia.

  PMID 38277218 · PMC10911375 · Aging · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  m5C regulators are differentially expressed between AML and normal samples and correlate with AML prognosis

  tcga aml gse12417 bulk mutation methylation

• 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