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).

• pmid-41886524

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

• A cell atlas of the adult female Aedes aegypti midgut revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 38839790 · PMC11153528 · Scientific data · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Established a protocol for isolating single cells from Ae. aegypti midgut and performing scRNA-seq (dissociation, density-gradient purification, viability QC, 10x Genomics library prep and sequencing).

  dissociated scrna-seq merged single-cell viability computational

• 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

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  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

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• Single-cell multiome and enhancer connectome of human retinal pigment epithelium and choroid nominate causal variants in macular degeneration.

  PMID 41528844 · PMC12971065 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility (multiome) atlas of human RPE and choroid from control and AMD eyes

  rpe-choroid rpe arpe-19 scatac-seq joint h3k27ac activity-by-contact

• Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain.

  PMID 41529688 · PMC7618834 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Sex differences in the Drosophila central brain do not result from large-scale transcriptional reprogramming, but from selective modifications within shared developmental lineages mediated by dsx and fru.

  drosophila central dsx+ dsx-gal4>mcd8 single-cell differential scenic

• 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

• ChromBERT: A foundation model for learning interpretable representations for context-specific transcriptional regulatory networks.

  PMID 41592570 · PMC13069865 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ChromBERT is pre-trained via masked reconstruction on the Cistrome-Human-6K dataset (6,391 cistromes, 991 transcription regulators) to learn genome-wide interaction syntax of transcription regulators

  lines chromosome embryonic transcription chip-seq chromhmm hi-c

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna

• Epigenetic context defines the transcriptional activity of canonical and noncanonical NF-κB signaling in pancreatic cancer.

  PMID 41844578 · PMC13039881 · Cell death discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TNFα is the primary activator of canonical NF-κB signaling via RELA in PDAC

  pdac patient-derived aspc-1 l3.6pl single-cell bulk multiplex

• AutoGERN: single-cell RNA-seq gene regulatory network inference via explicit link modeling and adaptive architectures.

  PMID 41871930 · PMC13064981 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  AutoGERN explicitly models regulatory information in the message-passing space via learned link (edge) embeddings, which are scored by a lightweight MLP to infer TF–target interactions.

  seven same scrna-seq-based chip-seq cold-start

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

  tcga simulated muscle-invasive ccrcc computational simulation-based deconvolution

• 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 · 8 setups

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  Mineralocorticoid 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 cells

  kidney live blood snrna-seq snatac-seq bulk

• Identification of the stress granule transcriptome via RNA-editing in single cells and in vivo.

  PMID 35784648 · PMC9243631 · Cell reports methods · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A purification-free hyperTRIBE method (FMR1-ADARcd-V5) can identify stress granule RNAs in bulk and single Drosophila S2 cells and in Drosophila neurons

  fmr1-adarcd-v5 single bioinformatic drosophila immunofluorescence western bulk

• 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 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently (Bonferroni-corrected) associated with ReHo across a discovery sample and two independent replication samples (including one non-Chinese HCP cohort).

  healthy postmortem ahba neocortex resting-state microarray weighted

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

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The FEM algorithm converts a single-cell gene expression matrix into a functional expression matrix using multi-module gene set enrichment analysis, utilizing information from all expressed genes rather than discarding filtered genes.

  pbmc pancreas liver scrna-seq single-cell fisher's dimensionality

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• Cell type- and species-specific regulation of hepatic lncRNAs by TCDD-activated aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

  PMID 41136526 · PMC12552753 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AHR-mediated lncRNA dysregulation may be a contributing mechanism in TCDD-elicited progression of steatosis to steatohepatitis with fibrosis

  liver mm39 bulk single-nuclei ahr

• Lipopolysaccharide distinctively alters human microglia transcriptomes to resemble microglia from Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

  PMID 36254682 · PMC9612871 · Disease models & mechanisms · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPSC-microglia show a shared core transcriptional response to ATPγS and to LPS+IFN-γ, suggesting a convergent mechanism of action

  ipsc-derived products microglia post-mortem single-cell ca2+ protein-protein

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  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.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Directing stem cell differentiation by chromatin state approximation.

  PMID 41734818 · PMC12956330 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Greedy selection of culture conditions by chromatin (ATAC-seq) distance to target is a viable optimisation strategy for differentiation protocols

  cd34+ cd34+-derived erythroid bone atac-seq flow rt-qpcr