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).

• 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

• 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

• Stage- and cluster-specific regulation of chondrogenic gene programs by Sox9 in mouse embryonic limb buds.

  PMID 41809054 · PMC12969044 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scRNA-seq across five limb bud stages identifies four Sox9-high populations (chondroprogenitors 1, 2, 3, and mature chondrocytes) with distinct temporal dynamics

  forelimb scrna-seq cut&run embryo single-cell cut&run velocity

• Blood feeding triggers the terminal differentiation of precursor cells in tick salivary glands.

  PMID 41880507 · PMC13015885 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Unfed I. scapularis salivary glands contain a conserved population of undifferentiated precursor cells.

  scapularis scrna-seq bulk immunofluorescence single-cell

• 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 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

• Spatial gene expression analysis reveals drivers of extremely early lymph node metastasis in breast cancer.

  PMID 41578129 · PMC12932634 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Identified 30 isolated tumor cells (ITCs) in a clinically metastasis-negative tumor-draining lymph node, representing the initial metastatic seeding event, spanning ~200 μm

  dissected same tumor xenium-derived bulk enzymatic whole-genome

• 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

• Identification of a new population of Tnn(+) progenitors to form tendon enthesis fibrocartilage.

  PMID 42009636 · PMC13096267 · Bone research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel Tnn+ progenitor cell population resides in the tendon enthesis and serves as a cellular origin of fibrocartilage lineages

  tendon developing spatial single-cell visium single-cell stamp

• SA2E: spatial-aware auto-encoder for cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41863296 · PMC13070677 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SA2E is a spatial-aware auto-encoder framework for cell-type deconvolution that does not require predefined cell-type biomarkers

  olfactory legacy breast brain simulated real scrna-seq

• Single-cell multiomics profiling reveals heterogeneous transcriptional programs and microenvironment in DSRCTs.

  PMID 38781959 · PMC11228554 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DSRCT tumor cells cluster into consistent subpopulations with partially overlapping lineage- and metabolism-related transcriptional programs across patients and samples

  fresh matched archived dsrct scrna-seq single-nucleus bulk

• Multi-omic identification of perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in human polyneuropathies.

  PMID 40849297 · PMC12375038 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multi-omic profiling (snRNA-seq + spatial transcriptomics) of human sural nerves identifies novel cell type markers (MLIP in mySC; GRIK3, PRIMA1 in nmSC; CXCL14 in periC) not previously described in rodent or human literature

  sural peripheral snrna-seq nerve single-nucleus subcellular situ

• CellMap: precision mapping of cellular landscape in spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41505103 · PMC12781899 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  CellMap combines co-linearity of seed genes, a random forest model, and the linear assignment algorithm to achieve optimal assignment of single cells to spatial spots

  platforms single-cell expression computational scrna-seq spatial

• Molecular signatures of cell diversity modulated by long noncoding RNAs in the human fetal spinal cord.

  PMID 42006319 · PMC13090696 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Three neural stem cell (NSC) lineages (NSC1, NSC2, NSCs) were annotated in the human fetal spinal cord

  fetal nsc2 scrna-seq scstereo velocity

• Unveiling the early defense response dynamics in grapevines against Plasmopara viticola by single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 41593733 · PMC12918531 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Generated the first single-cell transcriptome atlas (scRNA-seq + spRNA-seq) of grapevine leaves during P. viticola infection across four early time points (0, 3, 6, 12 hpi)

  vitis guard cabernet tissue-specific single-cell spatial pseudo-time

• InSituPREP enables 3D single-cell mapping of interaction-associated gene programs in the breast cancer tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 42109251 · PMC13158666 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  InSituPREP is a computational framework that quantifies proximity-associated gene programs across multiple analytical layers (binary contacts, graded distance, density, triplets, RNA velocity) in 3D single-cell spatial data

  breast adjacent exseq-imaged exseq-derived expansion 16s scrna-seq

• Advancing Prognosis Prediction and Immunotherapy Efficacy in Lung Adenocarcinoma Through Machine Learning: Novel Insights From Anoikis Regulator Patterns in Single-Cell Multiomics.

  PMID 41488744 · PMC12764181 · International journal of genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial and endothelial cells show the highest anoikis-enriched scores among LUAD TME cell types, with AT2-like Epi being the most anoikis-related epithelial subpopulation.

  luad pan-cancer tumor scrna-seq spatial bulk

• 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

• 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

• Deciphering immune and cellular reprogramming during the progression from inflammatory bowel disease to colorectal cancer using multi-omics single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 42001187 · PMC13122952 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CEACAM5 is consistently upregulated across Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis samples and links epithelial activation in IBD to tumorigenic processes in CRC

  intestinal colorectal single-cell serum bulk single-cell spatial