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).

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Therapeutic manipulation and spatial quantification of the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41907400 · PMC13018967 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer fibroblast heterogeneity can be distilled into two overarching, transcriptomically distinct CAF populations marked by PDGFRA+ and ACTA2+ expression

  crc colonic gemm scrna-seq multiplex bulk

• Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit.

  PMID 41501466 · PMC12820784 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammation-associated fibroblasts (IAFs), induced by proinflammatory FCN1+IL1B+ macrophages, produce profibrotic IL-11 and drive fibrosis in IBD

  intestinal colon pdgfra+ colonic scrna-seq xenium masson's

• Vγ1 γδ T cells steer airway macrophages toward a profibrotic response in an autochthonous lung cancer mouse model.

  PMID 41779856 · PMC12959402 · Science advances · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Lung tumors drive expansion of both CD27+ and CD27- pulmonary γδ T cells, which acquire distinct spatial and phenotypic changes in the tumor microenvironment

  spc-cre+ microdissected sorted merged flow confocal single-cell

• The heterogeneity of dermal mesenchymal cells reproduced in skin equivalents regulates barrier function and elasticity.

  PMID 41922844 · PMC13172354 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tricellular communication among epidermal keratinocytes, dermal fibroblasts, and vascular endothelial cells (EDV model) is required for normal epidermal organization, endothelial tube formation, and collagen deposition compared to models lacking one or more cell types.

  hse edv h&e sirius immunohistochemistry

• A macrophage-induced subpopulation of mesenchymal cells expressing Fcer1g contributes to wound-induced fibrosis.

  PMID 41680182 · PMC13009336 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Early-phase macrophage depletion (MaFIA + AP20187) reduces fibrosis/scar area and mesenchymal cell numbers without delaying reepithelialization or angiogenesis.

  mafia nih pdgfra-rtta flow excisional immunofluorescence

• Base barrier cells provide compartmentalization of choroid plexus, brain and CSF.

  PMID 41680326 · PMC12971494 · Nature neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct fibroblast population, ChP base barrier cells (BBCs, formerly type II fibroblasts), exists at the base of the choroid plexus, separate from ChP stromal (type I) fibroblasts

  lateral brain mesp1-cre chp scrna-seq multiplex immunofluorescence

• 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