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 ligand-centered framework for γδ T cell activation in colorectal cancer revealed by single-cell and transformer-based perturbation.

  PMID 41607803 · PMC12835328 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRC-infiltrating γδ T cells show varied activation levels, with the TRM-like population being the major tumor-infiltrating subtype and exhibiting the lowest effector and exhaustion signature scores.

  crc-infiltrating crc scrna-seq gene nichenet

• Single-immunocyte transcriptomics reveal the role of natural killer cell-dependent exogenous antigen presentation in ankylosing spondylitis severity.

  PMID 41593306 · PMC12868835 · Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Innate antibacterial defense functions are generally enhanced in most cell types at AS onset and are negatively associated with AS severity

  pbmcs gwas pbmc-derived cd4+ single-cell bulk mendelian

• 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

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• Single-Cell Profiling Across Immune Tissues and Organs Reveals Immunosenescence Signatures in Male Rhesus Monkeys.

  PMID 41556329 · PMC13042567 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GZMB is markedly upregulated across multiple cell types in aged rhesus monkeys and serves as a candidate biomarker of immunosenescence

  bone cd8+ mesenteric sections single-cell gene pseudotime

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• Systematic clustering algorithm for chromatin accessibility data and its application to hematopoietic cells.

  PMID 33253153 · PMC7728210 · PLoS computational biology · 2020 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A systematic clustering algorithm for ATAC-seq data can be built by binarizing the genome into open/closed chromatin (1/0) strings and computing Hamming distances between samples for hierarchical clustering.

  monocytes natural hematopoietic leukemia atac-seq hierarchical

• Integrative network modeling reveals mechanisms underlying T cell exhaustion.

  PMID 32024856 · PMC7002445 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  TCE arises from changes in diverse gene regulatory interactions across a shared network rather than dysregulation of a single gene

  cd8+ tce manual gene principal

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• Identification of novel DNA sequence motifs that modulate transcription in T cells.

  PMID 41514212 · PMC12879379 · BMC genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Identified 2,036 novel DNA motifs enriched in regulatory regions of T-cell-specific genes

  t-cell non-t-cell cd4+ sequences rna-seq dnase-seq h3k27ac

• Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming.

  PMID 41639465 · PMC13017511 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics atlas (Taiji pipeline) integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq across nine CD8+ T cell states can predict TF activity and identify state-selective versus multi-state TFs

  cd8+ lcmv p14 c57bl rna-seq pearson crispr

• Assessment tool based on fatty acid metabolic signatures for predicting the prognosis and treatment response in bladder cancer.

  PMID 38076064 · PMC10703629 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus clustering of prognosis-related fatty acid metabolism genes (FAMGs) identifies three molecular subtypes of BLCA (FAMC1, FAMC2, FAMC3) with distinct prognoses and tumor microenvironments

  tcga-blca famc1-3 differentially gse32894 bulk consensus gene

• Immune profiling in a living human recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney.

  PMID 41507576 · PMC12823403 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Xenograft experienced early T cell-mediated rejection (Banff grade 2A) within 1 week post-transplant despite profound circulating T cell depletion, likely driven by subtherapeutic immunosuppression and residual CD8+ T cells in lymph nodes.

  xenotransplant recipient kidney integrative single-cell flow

• Antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8(+) T cells in multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 41644766 · PMC12956596 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A subset of 23 highly expanded, CSF-enriched CD8+ T cell clonotypes exists predominantly in the CSF of the MS/CIS cohort.

  paired cd8+ cd4+ csf single-cell differential pseudotime

• Intergenic risk variant rs56258221 skews the fate of naive CD4(+) T cells via miR4464-BACH2 interplay in primary sclerosing cholangitis.

  PMID 38901430 · PMC11293351 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  rs56258221 (BACH2/MIR4464) associates with a distinct peripheral blood T cell immunophenotype in people with PSC

  peripheral liver facs-sorted cd4+ flow bulk cite-seq

• The N-terminus and alpha-5, alpha-6 helices of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax, modulate functional interactions with the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL.

  PMID 17519046 · PMC1890283 · BMC cell biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deletion of the first 29 N-terminal amino acids (Bax 30-192) causes constitutive mitochondrial accumulation and high cytotoxicity that is poorly inhibited by Bcl-xL or Bcl-2.

  jurkat drosophila hek apoptotic uas-gal4 western

• Generation of thymus-reconstituting T cell progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells.

  PMID 41512861 · PMC12853186 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A cytokine-free hPSC hematopoietic differentiation protocol followed by OP9-DLL4 stromal co-culture generates pro-T cells without genetic manipulation

  hpsc hescs hpsc-hec-derived sorted flow tcr single-cell