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).

• Single-Cell Mitochondrial Lineage Tracing Decodes Fate Decision and Spatial Clonal Architecture in Human Hematopoietic Organoids.

  PMID 41560697 · PMC13042525 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mitochondrial somatic mutations from scRNA-seq can be repurposed as endogenous genetic barcodes for lineage tracing in hPSC-derived organoids.

  hpsc hemo larry-barcoded pdgfrα+ scrna-seq mitochondrial cospar

• Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate.

  PMID 41565813 · PMC12999477 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ZNF219, a previously uncharacterized transcription factor, represses neural differentiation in human cortical radial glia

  cortical rhesus single-cell scrna-seq immunocytochemistry

• Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells.

  PMID 41634202 · PMC13171621 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TCs are radiosensitive haematopoietic cells derived from an IL7R+ progenitor, enriched in fetal liver

  cd45.1 il7r il7r-cre cx3cr1-cre bone fetal scrna-seq

• Dual mechanisms of supporting cell regeneration in the neonatal mouse cochlea.

  PMID 41867623 · PMC13000480 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GER cells regenerate IPhCs through both mitotic and non-mitotic mechanisms

  neonatal lgr5dtr ki67creert2 epcam+ whole-mount edu genetic

• 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

• Gene duplication: the genomic trade in spare parts.

  PMID 15252449 · PMC449868 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Gene duplication relaxes selective constraint on one copy, allowing exploration of evolutionary space that is otherwise forbidden in single-copy genes, making duplication the major opportunity for new gene function evolution.

  great genome recently yeast genome-wide molecular comparative

• Unveiling the NEFH+ malignant cell subtype: Insights from single-cell RNA sequencing in prostate cancer progression and tumor microenvironment interactions.

  PMID 39759507 · PMC11695424 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant cell subtype in PCa with high expression of NEFH was identified, located at the differentiation terminal, showing higher malignancy and association with advanced tumor lesions.

  pca malignant tcga mda single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• 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

• Systematic background selection with BasCoD enhances contrastive dimension reduction in single cell genomics.

  PMID 41844632 · PMC13144610 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  BasCoD is a statistical testing framework using spectral subspace inclusion theory to evaluate whether a candidate background dataset is suitable for contrastive dimension reduction of a target dataset

  ts65dn ipscs k562 intestinal contrastive population-scale perturb-seq

• Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation.

  PMID 41851525 · PMC13132723 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglia repopulate rapidly and exclusively cell-autonomously from surviving microglia after CSF-1R inhibitor (BLZ945) depletion.

  brain cerebral cd11b+cd45int-hi leptomeninges flow confocal single-cell

• Transcription elongation can be sufficient, but is not necessary, to advance replication timing.

  PMID 41876817 · PMC13121604 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Transcriptional elongation can causally advance RT in a rate-dependent and context-specific manner

  musculus same tre-ptn mesc repli-seq bru-seq genome-wide

• Single-cell gene expression and TCR profiling reveal age-related differences in recent thymic emigrants.

  PMID 42023153 · PMC13098507 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Neonatal and adult CD8+ RTEs are phenotypically and functionally distinct despite equivalent post-thymic maturation time

  splenic neonatal sorted flow single-cell differential

• FOXP1 is differentially active during development of murine vasopressin and oxytocin magnocellular neurons.

  PMID 42088346 · PMC13138059 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  FOXP1 participates in MCN development and is differentially active in OXT MCNs relative to AVP MCNs

  hypothalamus hypothalamic avp neuro-2a single-cell gene fate

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• 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

• Sox8 remodels the cranial ectoderm to generate the ear.

  PMID 35867760 · PMC9282420 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sox8 sits at the top of a core transcriptional circuit (Sox8, Pax2, Lmx1a, Zbtb16) that determines otic identity

  chick bulk single-cell chipseq

• Pharmacogenomic screening identifies and repurposes leucovorin and dyclonine as pro-oligodendrogenic compounds in brain repair.

  PMID 39537633 · PMC11561360 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A pharmacogenomic scoring strategy (OligoScore) combining transcriptomic signatures and curated oligodendrogenesis gene sets identifies compounds with pro-oligodendrogenic transcriptional activity

  brain neonatal gene cerebellar bulk transcriptomic pharmacogenomic

• Single-cell transcriptomics of human embryos identifies multiple sympathoblast lineages with potential implications for neuroblastoma origin.

  PMID 33833454 · PMC7610777 · Nature genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In human embryos, intra-adrenal sympathoblasts are directly derived from nerve-associated Schwann cell precursors (SCPs), similarly to chromaffin cells

  embryo sympathoadrenal embryonic adrenal scrna-seq velocity immunohistochemistry

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• Atypical pericapillary Ly6G⁺Nur77⁺ macrophages initiate type-2 immune responses to allergens in the mouse lung.

  PMID 41571657 · PMC12929616 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cysteine protease activity in HDM (and not LPS/TLR4 signaling) is the primary driver of Th2 allergic airway responses

  lung mediastinal par2 hematopoietic flow adoptive competitive