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).

• 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

• PBRM1 Deficiency Reshapes an Immune Suppressive Microenvironment Through Epigenetic Tuning of PBRM1-KDM5C-IL6 Axis in ccRCC.

  PMID 41514194 · PMC13042695 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PBRM1 deficiency increases infiltration of immunosuppressive M2 tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and creates an immune-excluded tumor microenvironment

  vhl kidney pbrm1 immunodeficient scrna-seq multiplex crispr-cas9

• Spatial perturb-seq: single-cell functional genomics within intact tissue architecture.

  PMID 41723140 · PMC13035813 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Spatial Perturb-Seq simultaneously measures whole transcriptome (cell type), CRISPR barcodes (perturbation), spatial coordinates, and cell-cell interactions through a single Stereo-seq and/or Xenium run.

  hippocampus bone brain aav-transduced scrna-seq snrna-seq spatial

• Isoform-specific single-cell perturb-seq reveals distinct functions of alternative promoters in drug response.

  PMID 41728950 · PMC12926921 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 5 claims · 8 setups

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  CRISPR-dCas9-based screens exhibit widespread promoter specificity, with untargeted promoters often showing compensatory upregulation to maintain overall gene expression

  mcf-7 rpe1 mcf-7-dcas9 tissue-wide isoform-specific reanalysis qrt-pcr

• Ectopic expression of BEX genes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  PMID 40811813 · PMC12830129 · Blood advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Bex1 (and to a lesser extent Bex4) is ectopically expressed in Pten-deficient mouse T-ALL blasts

  thymocytes thymocyte t-all normal scrna-seq rt-qpcr bulk

• Chromatin architecture reprogramming reveals novel epigenetic dependencies in breast cancer.

  PMID 41412800 · PMC12849445 · Genes & development · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  H3K9 methylation and the demethylase KDM4C, through association with SWI/SNF, drive proliferation of cells fated to become endocrine-resistant via a nongenomic estrogen-mediated mechanism

  parental t47d esr1 scrna-seq hi-c atac-seq

• Development of a split-toxin CRISPR screening platform to systematically identify regulators of human myoblast fusion.

  PMID 41540035 · PMC12808753 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A CRISPR screening platform combining human myoblast models, a custom muscle-targeted gRNA library (MyoCRISPR-KO Lib), and a split-toxin selection system enables quantitative enrichment of fusion-defective myocytes.

  myoblasts myoblast time-course immunostaining gene

• Integrated multi-omic atlas reveals the hierarchy of spatiotemporal regulatory networks of mouse gastrulation.

  PMID 41526381 · PMC12902073 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BioCRE, a novel bi-orientation regression algorithm, more accurately links genes to candidate cis-regulatory elements (CREs) than existing tools Signac and ArchR

  gastrulating gastrula gold-standard embryo single-cell computational promoter

• Integrative single-cell analysis uncovers distinct tumour microenvironment ecotypes and immune evasion across skin cancers.

  PMID 41636115 · PMC12869349 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant NARS2+NDUFC2+ melanoma cell subpopulation with reduced MHC-I expression is enriched in advanced-stage tumours and associated with worse survival and immunotherapy response.

  skin prognosis melanoma macrophage single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• scLong: a billion-parameter foundation model for capturing long-range gene context in single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639087 · PMC12982784 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  scLong performs self-attention across all ~27,874 human genes, including lowly expressed ones, to capture long-range gene dependencies missed by models restricted to highly expressed gene subsets

  million norman self-supervised transcriptional genetic

• Single-cell transcriptomics reveals keratinocyte dynamic processes associated with S100a4 expression in psoriasiform dermatitis.

  PMID 41660613 · PMC12876221 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  S100a4 knockout mice show significant pathological improvement in psoriasis-like lesions, including reduced inflammatory cell infiltration and decreased epidermal hyperplasia

  c57bl skin dorsal dcmo crispr western imiquimod-induced

• Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing regulates cardiogenesis.

  PMID 41537425 · PMC12807453 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Rtf1 activity is essential for differentiation of the myocardial lineage from mesoderm

  zebrafish embryo embryonic mescs crispr situ shrna

• CHD7 regulates otic lineage specification and hair cell differentiation in human inner ear organoids.

  PMID 36396635 · PMC9672366 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of CHD7 or its ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling activity causes complete absence of hair cells and supporting cells in inner ear organoids

  inner facs-isolated hescs hesc immunostaining scrna-seq western

• FOXA1 mutations co-opt nascent transcription factor networks in partnership with androgen receptor to enhance prostate tumorigenicity.

  PMID 41621066 · PMC13050545 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXA1 mutations in a 874-tumor cohort cluster into missense, in-frame indel, and truncation subgroups, with indels concentrated at residues M253/E255

  prostate targeted single-nucleus scatac-seq

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Revealed Heterogeneity and Identified Novel Therapeutic Targets for Breast Cancer Subtypes.

  PMID 37190091 · PMC10137100 · Cells · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of EPCAM+Lin- epithelial cells identified unique gene signatures/markers that distinguish ER+, HER2+, ER+HER2+, and TNBC molecular subtypes

  breast epcam+cd45-cd8a-cd4-cd19-cd3e cancer identified single-cell differential crispr-cas9

• M(5)C-driven stabilization of SERPINB5 promotes cervical cancer progression and chemotherapy resistance.

  PMID 41673397 · PMC12921336 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RNA m5C levels are globally and consistently elevated in cervical tumors compared to normal cervical tissue

  cervical hela nsun2 bisulfite bulk spatial

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Oxidative stress and GPX2 control pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate in human endoderm.

  PMID 41484137 · PMC12881361 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GPX2 is a critical regulator of human posterior foregut differentiation, with oxidative stress acting as a key determinant of pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate

  hpsc-derived hpsc fetal bulk immunofluorescence flow

• 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