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).

• Hippo signaling differentially regulates distal progenitor subpopulations and their transitional states to construct the mammalian lungs.

  PMID 41932885 · PMC13219436 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A fraction (15-50%) of the distal SOX9+ tip progenitor subdomain is sufficient to direct lung outgrowth through branch bifurcation, providing a mechanism for lung size control

  lung whole-mount immunofluorescence single-cell

• Involvement of N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN genes in breast cancer and muscle cell development.

  PMID 38859961 · PMC11163233 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 73

  N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN, normally highly expressed in breast myoepithelial and smooth muscle cells, are significantly downregulated in breast tumor tissue of a 50-patient cohort

  breast paired embryonic hesc-derived bulk rt-qpcr immunofluorescence

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An individualized Bayesian causal discovery framework can learn tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) by combining single-cell gene expression module (GEM) discovery, bulk tumor deconvolution, and individualized causal network learning.

  hnscc cd45+ cd8+ tcga single-cell bulk pseudo-time

• Empowering integrative and collaborative exploration of single-cell and spatial multimodal data with SGS genome browser.

  PMID 40233745 · PMC12143324 · Cell genomics · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SGS is a user-friendly, collaborative, versatile browser for integrative visualization of single-cell and spatial multimodal (scMulti-omics) data

  dorsal hematopoietic brain onek1k sn-m3c-seq scatac-seq spatial

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• Unraveling the timeline of gene expression: A pseudotemporal trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 37994351 · PMC10663991 · F1000Research · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A comprehensive open-source R workflow combining trajectory inference (monocle3) and pseudo-bulk time course analysis (edgeR) can be applied to multi-sample scRNA-seq data of the mouse mammary gland.

  mammary aggregated single-cell quality doublet

• Single-cell transcriptome maps of myeloid blood cell lineages in Drosophila.

  PMID 32900993 · PMC7479620 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell RNA-seq of developing Drosophila lymph glands resolves heterogeneity of hemocytes and identifies major and sub cell types.

  drosophila lymph single single-cell bulk gene

• Mammary cell gene expression atlas links epithelial cell remodeling events to breast carcinogenesis.

  PMID 34079055 · PMC8172904 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of five mouse scRNAseq datasets reveals a trifurcating lineage trajectory originating from embryonic mammary stem cells (MaSCs) that differentiates into three epithelial lineages (Basal, L-Alv, L-Hor) via unipotent progenitor clusters

  mammary surgically normal single-cell whole-mount integration

• Pre-implantation embryo metabolism identified by PEMA reveals endogenous lactate insufficiency contributes to pre-implantation development arrest.

  PMID 42272466 · PMC13247451 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  PEMA, a computational tool that weights metabolic reactions using Ribo-seq data combined with RNA-seq-derived flux balance analysis, can characterize metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more precisely than existing methods like Compass.

  embryos pre-implantation ch3pn single-embryo immunofluorescence single-cell

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Multicellular Ecosystem of Nucleus Pulposus during Degeneration Progression.

  PMID 34825784 · PMC8787427 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Human NP contains six transcriptionally distinct NPC subpopulations: HT-CLNPs, effector NPCs, homeostatic NPCs, regulatory NPCs, fibroNPCs, and adhesion NPCs

  npcs scrna-seq-derived ht-clnp-i g-mdscs single-cell rt-qpcr immunohistochemistry

• CellPolaris: Transfer Learning for Gene Regulatory Network Construction to Guide Cell State Transitions.

  PMID 41498638 · PMC12948241 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CellPolaris is a unified computational framework performing TF-centered GRN construction, master TF identification, and TF perturbation simulation

  bulk previously round paired transfer-learning cross-species

• Alternative splicing dynamics during human cardiac development in vivo and in vitro.

  PMID 41483812 · PMC12925949 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPSC-CMs globally resemble prenatal cardiac cells at both the transcriptional and splicing levels

  ipsc-cms heart bulk ipsc-cm immunofluorescence single-cell bulk

• Have microarrays failed to deliver for developmental biology?

  PMID 12225576 · PMC139405 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Despite predictions that microarrays would transform biology, very few published developmental biology microarray studies have generated novel insights.

  drosophila caenorhabditis developing xenopus cdna genome-wide microarray

• A latent activated olfactory stem cell state revealed by single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling.

  PMID 41512864 · PMC12903091 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  HBC-derived regeneration proceeds via three distinct lineages (rHBC, Sus, mOSN) marked by sequential, lineage-specific transcription factor (TF) expression cascades.

  lineage-traced hbcs* icam1+ scrna-seq trajectory-based seurat

• Migratory Tumor Cells Cooperate with Cancer Associated Fibroblasts in Hormone Receptor-Positive and HER2-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 38892065 · PMC11172245 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HR+/HER2-BC tumor epithelial cells comprise four single-cell-defined functional (SC-f) subtypes: migratory, secretory, proliferating, and dysfunctional.

  hr+ epcam-sorted tumor tcga-brca droplet sidr-seq bulk

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution.

  PMID 41388990 · PMC12776951 · The Plant cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH was successfully optimized for wheat inflorescence tissue, enabling localization of a 200-gene panel to cellular resolution across 4 developmental stages

  microdissected cryosectioned wheat merfish-imaged bulk merfish single-nucleus

• MEIOC prevents continued mitotic cycling and promotes meiotic entry during mouse oogenesis.

  PMID 41287933 · PMC12848572 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  MEIOC prevents continued mitotic cycling in preleptotene oocytes prior to meiotic entry

  e16.5 e14.5 ovarian edu bulk single-cell

• spliceJAC: transition genes and state-specific gene regulation from single-cell transcriptome data.

  PMID 36321549 · PMC9627675 · Molecular systems biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  spliceJAC uses unspliced and spliced mRNA count matrices to construct cell state-specific gene-gene regulatory interaction (Jacobian) matrices from scRNA-seq data

  bistable three-gene emt circuits simulation mixed-state grn

• Integrated transcriptomic landscape of medulloblastoma and ependymoma reveals novel tumor subtype-specific biology.

  PMID 41159380 · PMC12979040 · Neuro-oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A unified UMAP-based transcriptomic landscape built from 888 medulloblastoma and 370 ependymoma tumors reveals distinct clusters corresponding to known and novel molecular subtypes.

  medulloblastoma ependymoma healthy shh bulk fusion copy