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).

• Single-Cell Multi-Tissue T Cell Clonal Dynamics Reveal Distinct Immune Coercion Landscapes in MSI and MSS Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41898550 · PMC13027115 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Immunotherapy response in CRC is better explained by TCR clonal dynamics (expansion, migration, functional transitions) than by MSI status alone

  crc single high-quality cd4+ scrna-seq tcr 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

• 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

• Comparative genomic analysis and evolution of the T cell receptor loci in the opossum Monodelphis domestica.

  PMID 18312668 · PMC2275272 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The conventional TCR loci (TRA/D, TRB, TRG) in opossum are highly conserved in organization and complexity with those of eutherian mammals.

  monodelphis 23-day-old trav trbv comparative rt-pcr phylogenetic

• 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

• Single-cell gene expression and TCR profiling reveal age-related differences in recent thymic emigrants.

  PMID 42023153 · PMC13098507 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Neonatal and adult CD8+ RTEs are phenotypically and functionally distinct despite equivalent post-thymic maturation time

  splenic neonatal sorted flow single-cell differential

• Genomic biomarkers of immunotherapy plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced NSCLC: Insights from the phase 3 ORIENT-11 study.

  PMID 41660271 · PMC12876322 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 9-gene Immune-Chemotherapy Prediction Score (ICPscore), derived from ORIENT-11 via WGCNA and LASSO Cox regression, predicts survival benefit from ICI plus chemotherapy in advanced NSCLC

  orient-11 hub nsclc oak bulk pd-l1 wgcna

• Unique phenotypic and T cell receptor characteristics of CD8(+) T cells accumulated in the brains of Alzheimer's disease mice.

  PMID 41794902 · PMC13087195 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Brain CD8+ T cells segregate into two major, mutually exclusive Trm populations: a CXCR6-related immunosuppressive cluster (cd8_c0) present in both aged non-Tg and 5xFAD_WT mice, and an AD-associated stem-like cluster (cd8_c1) present only in 5xFAD mice.

  brain-derived brain cd8+ clonally scrna-seq paired cellchat

• CD69 regulates the tissue dynamics of epigenetically imprinted memory CD4(+) T cells.

  PMID 41950321 · PMC13060599 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD69 is essential for tissue retention of CD4+ TRM cells in inflamed lungs, in both allergic (HDM/OVA) and infectious (BCG) models

  ova-specific lung thy1.1+ peripheral adoptive flow parabiosis

• An AI-Enabled Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Pipeline for Gene Signature Discovery in Natural Killer Cells Linked to Remission Outcomes in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

  PMID 41972591 · PMC13072394 · Biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GAFA integrates latent-space representation, pseudotime trajectory modeling, GRN inference, and machine learning-based gene panel discovery into a single coherent pipeline, unlike existing workflows that treat these steps independently.

  peripheral subset immune assigned scrna-seq latent-space automated

• De novo identification of CD4(+) T cell epitopes.

  PMID 38658646 · PMC11093748 · Nature methods · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SABR-IIs (chimeric receptors linking a covalently attached peptide-MHC-II to CD28-CD3ζ signaling domains) present epitopes to CD4+ T cells and induce a readable NFAT-GFP/CD69 signal upon cognate TCR recognition

  nfat-gfp hla-dq8 5kc daudi nfat-gfp co-incubation species

• Multimodal framework for the joint analysis of single-cell RNA and T cell receptor sequencing data predicts T cell response to cancer immunotherapy.

  PMID 41820396 · PMC13121706 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  TRIM, a conditional multi-modal variational autoencoder integrating paired scRNAseq and scTCRseq data, predicts T cell clonality and transcriptional states at unmeasured tissue sites/timepoints.

  hnscc colorectal pan-cancer tcr paired umap convolutional

• PD-1 antibody-bound progenitor-exhausted CD8(+) T cells in lymph nodes boost PD-1-blockade anti-tumor immunity in gastrointestinal cancer.

  PMID 41951588 · PMC13237225 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells (CD8-Tpex, TCF7+PDCD1+) are enriched in proximal lymph nodes and proliferate at a high rate after ICI treatment

  esophagogastric cancer surgically tcga scrna-seq scrna reanalysis

• 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

• Metabolic quiescence of naive-like memory T cells precedes and maintains antigen-specific T cell memory.

  PMID 41735532 · PMC12956582 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD8+ T cells upregulate glycolysis to fuel anabolic needs for proliferation but predominantly use oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) for energy production during the acute phase (days 7-28) after YFV vaccination

  peripheral cd8+ ns4b+ antigen-specific flow scrna-seq cite-seq

• 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

• A Scalable Framework for Comprehensive Typing of Polymorphic Immune Genes from Long-Read Data.

  PMID 41669879 · PMC13088316 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SpecImmune is the first unified computational framework to simultaneously genotype HLA, KIR, IG, TCR, and CYP genes from long-read data.

  1kgp hprc hgsvc long-read targeted germline

• The Presence of CD11c+ B Cells with Potent Effector Memory Phenotype in Lung Adenocarcinoma Correlates with Overall Patient Survival.

  PMID 41686183 · PMC12988592 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CD79A is a reliable transcriptomic/protein quantifier of B lymphocytes across differentiation stages, unlike CD19/CD20 whose expression changes upon activation

  healthy tcga luad til-b flow bulk single-cell

• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

  pbmc bronchoalveolar nasopharyngeal combined scrna-seq tcr bcr

• Multi-modal skin atlas identifies a multicellular immune-stromal community associated with disrupted cornification and specific T cell expansion in atopic dermatitis.

  PMID 41741455 · PMC13057205 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a multi-modal single-cell atlas of 280,518 cells from 27 samples/17 adults (healthy, AD non-lesional/lesional, scleroderma), integrated with 430,186 cells from four prior studies into a 710,704-cell human skin atlas with 86 annotated granular cell subsets.

  skin healthy keratinocytes re-annotated droplet-based scrna-seq bulk