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 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

• Comparative genomics reveals functional transcriptional control sequences in the Prop1 gene.

  PMID 17557180 · PMC1998882 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A BAC transgene containing Prop1 completely rescues the Prop1 mutant (dwarf) phenotype, showing all necessary regulatory elements lie within the BAC

  pig lemur cv-1 b-prop1 bac comparative transient

• 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

• 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

• Spatial cartography of human thymus enables the geopositioning of lineage transcription factors in rare mimetic thymic epithelial cells.

  PMID 41807357 · PMC13102919 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Generated a high-resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of human fetal (13,14,17,18w) and paediatric (7w,2y,5y,6y) thymi using Stereo-seq, integrated with scRNA-seq and MACSima/Stereo-CITE proteomics

  fetal paediatric thymus stereo-seq scrna-seq macsima

• 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

• Functional genomics of early cortex patterning.

  PMID 16515721 · PMC1431711 · Genome biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The neocortical protomap is established as continuous rostro-caudal gradients of gene expression in progenitor cells, not discrete compartments

  neocortex embryonic fgfr1-mutant cortex oligonucleotide situ microarray

• Major transitions in early coral development: novel insights enabled by visualisation of a comprehensive transcriptomic dataset for Acropora millepora.

  PMID 41612263 · PMC12924552 · BMC biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Profiling gene expression across 26 life stages of A. millepora and building an interactive Shiny-based tool (DEView) enables comprehensive visualisation of developmental transcriptomic data.

  acropora millepora bulk differential pca

• Novel fatty acid metabolism-related molecular subtyping and prognostic signature for breast cancer.

  PMID 41674979 · PMC12885896 · Translational cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A FAM-related gene prognostic model (FAMGM) built using CoxBoost and random survival forest was identified as the optimal model among 101 machine learning combinations, based on highest average C-index across TCGA-BRCA and GSE96058 cohorts

  tcga-brca gse96058 brca breast bulk single-cell spatial

• Genomic characterisation of a Fgf-regulated gradient-based neocortical protomap.

  PMID 16079153 · PMC4729368 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2005 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Neocortical progenitor cells show rostrocaudal gradients of gene expression rather than discrete domains/compartments

  neocortex dorsal cortex embryo oligonucleotide microarray non-isotopic

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

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

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  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

• Lineage-specific, fast-evolving GATA-like gene regulates zygotic gene activation to promote endoderm specification and pattern formation in the Theridiidae spider.

  PMID 36203191 · PMC9535882 · BMC biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative RNA-seq of cells isolated from central, intermediate, and peripheral regions of stage-3 embryos identifies genes with locally restricted expression genome-wide

  tepidariorum drosophila rna-seq whole-mount parental

• 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

• 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

• Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of plant quiescent center by third-generation sequencing reveals developmental trajectories.

  PMID 41664205 · PMC12990480 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Developed an improved protoplasting/hand-picking protocol enabling isolation of intact QC cells for single-cell long-read RNA sequencing (SCAN-seq)

  arabidopsis single-cell rt-pcr agarose

• 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

• 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

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• Spatially resolved integrative analysis of transcriptomic and metabolomic changes in tissue injury studies.

  PMID 41501078 · PMC12780049 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MAGPIE is a computational framework (Snakemake workflow) that co-registers Visium spatial transcriptomics with MSI metabolomics and tissue morphology images from same or consecutive sections

  lung brain publicly rodent spatial desi h&e

• Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Decidua Identifies Molecular Signatures in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.

  PMID 41031483 · PMC13242933 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The human decidua contains two coherent spatial domains, the implantation zone (IZ) and glandular-secretory zone (GZ), corresponding to the decidua compacta and spongiosa

  first-trimester decidual spots dnk 10x h&e type