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 information matters: are traditional imputation methods effective for spatial transcriptomics data?

  PMID 41627342 · PMC12862982 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  No single existing SOTA imputation method consistently performs well across newer SRT platforms/datasets

  datasets srt same computational proposed

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• 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

• SpaGene: A Deep Adversarial Framework for Spatial Gene Imputation.

  PMID 42146899 · PMC13176606 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 74

  SpaGene improves average PCC and SSIM and reduces RMSE compared to 6 baseline methods (SpaGE, gimVI, Tangram, VISTA, spRefine, stDiff) across 8 diverse ST-SC dataset pairs under gene-holdout evaluation.

  pairs nanostring st-sc osmfish_zeisel st-sc 5-fold spatially

• Computational modeling demonstrates that glioblastoma cells can survive spatial environmental challenges through exploratory adaptation.

  PMID 31836713 · PMC6911112 · Nature communications · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Exploratory adaptation (stochastic gene-regulatory network perturbation) explains how GBM cells adapt phenotypically across spatially distinct tumor regions

  patient-derived low-grade tf-gene single-sample bulk differential gene

• PreTSA: computationally efficient modeling of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns.

  PMID 41673899 · PMC12998178 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PreTSA dramatically reduces computational time and memory versus GAM (Monocle, TSCAN) and PseudotimeDE for identifying temporally variable genes (TVGs) while producing highly similar results

  simulated null pbmc pancreas pseudotime tvg false-positive

• A quantitative proteomics analysis of subcellular proteome localization and changes induced by DNA damage.

  PMID 20026476 · PMC2849709 · Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP · 2010 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  A SILAC-based 'spatial proteomics' method can quantitatively measure the relative subcellular distribution of thousands of proteins across cytoplasm, nucleus, and nucleolus.

  hct116 silac silac-based immunofluorescence

• Spatial transcriptomics maps host-gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution.

  PMID 41792309 · PMC13171632 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Enzymatic in situ polyadenylation increases bacterial RNA recovery in oligo(dT)-based spatial transcriptomics arrays by up to ~100-fold while preserving host gene capture

  apc-deficient heart ileum fresh-frozen spatial high-resolution bulk

• Chromatin spatial analysis by METALoci unveils sex-determining 3D regulatory hubs.

  PMID 41735611 · PMC13095655 · Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  TADs and large-scale chromatin structures remain largely unchanged during sex determination, suggesting a preformed configuration

  facs-sorted same integrated fgf9 hi-c chip-seq metaloci

• Serial Spatial Transcriptomes Reveal Regulatory Transitions in Maize Leaf Development.

  PMID 41493197 · PMC13110159 · Plant biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An optimised Visium spatial transcriptomics protocol (two-step OCT embedding combined with OCT-Immersion First cryopreservation) preserves high-integrity RNA from fragile plant tissues such as SAM

  maize integrated spatial integrity dimensional

• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

  dorsolateral dlpfc nanostring spatial cell-type multi-platform

• 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

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• HRCHY-CytoCommunity identifies hierarchical tissue organization in cell-type spatial maps.

  PMID 41764165 · PMC13065825 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  HRCHY-CytoCommunity is an end-to-end graph neural network framework that jointly identifies multi-level (coarse tissue compartment and fine cellular neighborhood) tissue structures from cell-type spatial maps using differentiable graph pooling, adaptive edge pruning, and consistency/balance regularization.

  healthy colorectal simulated breast codex visium merfish

• Glioblastoma stem cells show transcriptionally correlated spatial organization.

  PMID 41577992 · PMC12894897 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  GSCs from different patient samples exhibit diverse, characteristic multicellular spatial patterns in culture (e.g., anisotropic vs isotropic packing, overlapping vs non-overlapping space utilization)

  patient-derived computational matched pooled phase-contrast bulk principal

• Numb prevents a complete epithelial-mesenchymal transition by modulating Notch signalling.

  PMID 29187638 · PMC5721160 · Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 49

  Numb/Numbl acts as a 'phenotypic stability factor' (PSF) that inhibits a complete EMT by stabilizing the hybrid E/M phenotype

  single-cell lattice h1975 ode-based multi-cell sirna

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

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

  Has reproduction · 90

  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

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• Integrated Single Cell Spatial Analysis Reveals Dysregulated Basal Progenitor Cells in Ulcerative Colitis Pathogenesis: A Multi Omics Study.

  PMID 41542331 · PMC12802566 · Health science reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BPC differentiation is significantly altered in UC, driven by a FABP1-led functional gene matrix

  colorectal colon patients bulk single-cell spatial bulk

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics define 20E-driven developmental reprogramming in silkworm wing disc.

  PMID 41730863 · PMC13039787 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Wing morphogenesis (Wm) cells act as central progenitors/differentiation hub, giving rise to epithelial and cuticle lineages under lineage-specific transcription factors

  mori spodoptera scrna-seq stereo-seq snrna-seq