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).

• Brown adipose tissue thermogenic adaptation requires Nrf1-mediated proteasomal activity.

  PMID 29400713 · PMC5839993 · Nature medicine · 2018 · 8 claims · 10 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  Cold adaptation increases proteasomal activity in BAT, which is required for non-shivering thermogenesis

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• Purinergic adipocyte-macrophage crosstalk promotes degeneration of thermogenic brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41261284 · PMC12715258 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  Imbalanced sympathetic/thermogenic activation (via UCP1 deficiency or pharmacological futile thermogenesis) causes BAT inflammation, fibrosis and degeneration

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• Eye in a Disk: eyeIntegration Human Pan-Eye and Body Transcriptome Database Version 1.0.

  PMID 31343654 · PMC6660187 · Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2019 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  EiaD is a reproducible, versioned RNA-seq transcriptome dataset combining 916 healthy human eye samples and 1375 GTEx body samples across 19 eye and 54 body tissues, built with a Snakemake pipeline and served as a single SQLite database.

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• Single-Cell Sequencing of iPSC-Dopamine Neurons Reconstructs Disease Progression and Identifies HDAC4 as a Regulator of Parkinson Cell Phenotypes.

  PMID 30503143 · PMC6327112 · Cell stem cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of GBA-N370S iPSC-derived dopamine neurons identifies a progressive axis of gene expression variation leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress.

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• Prime editing in mice reveals the essentiality of a single base in driving tissue-specific gene expression.

  PMID 33722289 · PMC7962346 · Genome biology · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A three-base-pair (HDR) or single-base (PE2) substitution in the Tspan2 CArG box causes cell-specific loss of Tspan2 mRNA in aorta and bladder, but not heart or brain

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• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

  lung covid-19 interaction pre-clinical composite single-cell kaplan-meier

• Integrative analysis of single-cell RNA-seq and gut microbiome metabarcoding data elucidates macrophage dysfunction in mice with DSS-induced ulcerative colitis.

  PMID 38879692 · PMC11180211 · Communications biology · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Epithelial cell populations are significantly reduced during acute DSS colitis, reflecting tissue damage, with partial recovery in chronic colitis

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• Systems Analysis Reveals Ageing-Related Perturbations in Retinoids and Sex Hormones in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases.

  PMID 34680427 · PMC8533098 · Biomedicines · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  AD and PD patients can be stratified by transcriptomic clustering into three subclasses with distinct gene expression and metabolic profiles

  post-mortem brain zebrafish bulk single-cell unsupervised

• GAUGE-Annotated Microbial Transcriptomic Data Facilitate Parallel Mining and High-Throughput Reanalysis To Form Data-Driven Hypotheses.

  PMID 33758032 · PMC8547006 · mSystems · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  GAUGE automatically annotates GEO microbial transcriptomic data sets (microarray and RNA-seq), increasing the proportion of annotatable studies from 4% to 33%

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• A comprehensive framework for analysis of microRNA sequencing data in metastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 35047825 · PMC8759566 · NAR cancer · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Five miRNAs (Mir-210_3p, Mir-191_5p, Mir-8-P1b_3p, Mir-1307_5p, Mir-155_5p) are up-regulated at multiple metastatic CRC sites compared to primary CRC.

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• Dissecting lncRNA-mRNA competitive regulatory network in human islet tissue exosomes of a type 1 diabetes model reveals exosome miRNA markers.

  PMID 36440209 · PMC9682028 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  LncRNA-mRNA competitive regulatory network topology and function differ substantially between control and cytokine-treated (IL-1β+IFN-γ) islet exosomes

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• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, validating its use as a proxy for translational efficiency at the elongation level.

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• Application of Machine Learning in Predicting Hepatic Metastasis or Primary Site in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

  PMID 37887568 · PMC10605255 · Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Multi-gene random forest models classify primary tumor vs. liver metastasis samples with 100% accuracy in training/test cohorts and >90% accuracy in an independent validation cohort

  pancreatic rna-seq liver tumor bulk machine multi-label

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  sctRNA-seq datasets (particularly LCM-seq) show measurable off-target mRNA contamination from surrounding cell types

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• 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

  Has reproduction · 67

  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.

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• Protocol for the generation of single-nuclei RNA-seq libraries and quantification of heterogeneous cell types activated during social interaction.

  PMID 39423127 · PMC11532268 · STAR protocols · 2024 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  A protocol for dissecting mouse PFC, hippocampus, and cerebellum and generating snRNA-seq libraries can identify neuronal populations activated during social interaction.

  medial hippocampus cerebellum brain single-nuclei nuclei bulk

• Computationally scalable regression modeling for ultrahigh-dimensional omics data with ParProx.

  PMID 34254998 · PMC8575036 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2021 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  ParProx implements latent group lasso penalized regression (overlapping and non-overlapping groups) for survival (Cox) and classification (logistic) analysis of omics data.

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• Transcriptome profiling of osteoclast subsets associated with arthritis: A pathogenic role of CCR2(hi) osteoclast progenitors.

  PMID 36591261 · PMC9797520 · Frontiers in immunology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CCR2hi and CCR2lo periarticular bone marrow OCP subsets show a disparate transcriptome (863 differentially expressed genes)

  sorted rna-seq periarticular bulk gene flow

• Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy.

  PMID 39682743 · PMC11640164 · Cells · 2024 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Estimated T-cell infiltration differs significantly across melanoma, bladder, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers, tracking known immunogenic potential.

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• A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Rodent Models.

  PMID 41031900 · PMC13131251 · Journal of sleep research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Meta-analysis of 18 SD-vs-control contrasts across 8 rodent studies (collective n=293) identified 182 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in cerebral cortex following SD (FDR<0.05)

  c57bl genetic pooled microarray rna-seq random-effects