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).

• Mapping the Development of Human Spermatogenesis Using Transcriptomics-Based Data: A Scoping Review.

  PMID 39000031 · PMC11241379 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of human testis reveals major transcriptional modifications occurring around 11 years of age, marking a transition toward the adult cellular state

  fetal neonatal prepubertal peripubertal scrna-seq

• Multiomics and deep learning dissect regulatory syntax in human development.

  PMID 41951735 · PMC13216069 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Human Development Multiomic Atlas (HDMA) is a single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility and gene expression from 817,740 fetal cells across 12 organs, spanning 203 cell types

  fetal annotated embryo chrombpnet share-seq chromvar activity-by-contact

• 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

• Gli1-expressing stromal cells are highly reparative precursors of long-lived chondroprogenitors in the fetal murine limb.

  PMID 41253754 · PMC12627582 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Gli1+ fetal cells are the precursors of postnatal long-lived chondroprogenitors (LLCPs) in the growth plate

  fetal left-cart-p21 gli1-creer cartilage single-nuclei scenic bulk

• Single-cell atlas of the developing Down syndrome brain cortex.

  PMID 41545595 · PMC13004680 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RORB/FOXP1-expressing L4-like excitatory neurons are subtype-specifically and dramatically reduced in Down syndrome fetal cortex, especially at later stages (PCW16-20)

  fetal excitatory neural humanized single-nucleus immunostaining compositional

• Microglia maintain structural integrity during fetal brain morphogenesis.

  PMID 38309258 · PMC10869139 · Cell · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic ATM-like microglia accumulate at two fetal cortical boundaries, the cortico-striato-amygdalar boundary (CSA) and cortico-septal boundary (CSB), resembling post-natal axon-tract-associated microglia (ATM)

  embryonic cx3cr1 fetal embryos single-cell immunolabeling phrodo

• Reactivation of a developmentally silenced embryonic globin gene.

  PMID 34290235 · PMC8295333 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In embryonic (primitive) erythroid cells, the ζ-gene lies within a ~65 kb sub-TAD of open, acetylated chromatin and physically interacts with the α-globin super-enhancer.

  primitive embryos ζ-venus atac-seq dnasei chip-seq

• A cell atlas of multiple liver organoids and the fetal liver based on scRNA-seq.

  PMID 41736863 · PMC12927097 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A unified liver organoid cell atlas of 217,025 high-quality cells was constructed by integrating scRNA-seq data from 15 organoid samples across 9 studies with human fetal liver data (5-19 weeks gestation)

  liver fetal endoderm-derived mesoderm-derived scrna-seq pseudotime pearson

• CellPredX, a computational framework for cross-data type, cross-sample, and cross-protocol cell type annotation through domain adaptation and deep metric learning.

  PMID 41481570 · PMC12758788 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CellPredX is a unified semi-supervised framework integrating domain adaptation and deep metric learning to align heterogeneous embeddings for cross-modality cell type annotation.

  pbmc fetal pancreas gse149683 matched unmatched cross-protocol

• An in vivo and in vitro spatiotemporal profile of human midbrain development.

  PMID 41633979 · PMC12877092 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  By 22 post-conceptional weeks (PCW), fetal ventral midbrain tissue exhibits structural complexity comparable to adult tissue

  fetal ipsc-derived dopamine immunohistochemistry immunofluorescence droplet-based

• The emergence of multiple testicular cell lineages in human stem cell-derived testis-like organoids.

  PMID 41725354 · PMC12989076 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  hiPSC-derived testis-like organoids show significant transcriptional shifts from pluripotency toward gonadal/testicular gene expression compared to undifferentiated stem cells

  hipscs day degs testis-like bulk single-cell term

• DBTSS provides a tissue specific dynamic view of Transcription Start Sites.

  PMID 19910371 · PMC2808897 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DBTSS update adds ~330 million new TSS Seq tags from 31 different human/mouse cell types or culture conditions.

  normal dld1 beas2b ramos tss comparative

• Biphasic expression of thyroid hormone receptor TRβ1 in mammalian retina and anterior ocular tissues.

  PMID 37033230 · PMC10076699 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TRβ1 shows a biphasic, late-peaking expression profile in retina that contrasts with the early embryonic peak of TRβ2

  retina fetal retinal cones rna-seq lacz immunofluorescence

• Mouse placentae generated by in vitro fertilization exhibit altered gene expression, activated hypoxia responses, and reduced fitness†.

  PMID 40874534 · PMC12808545 · Biology of reproduction · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  IVF-conceived mouse placentae exhibit global and cell type–specific gene expression differences compared to FB placentae

  e12.5 differentially trophoblast placenta single-nucleus pseudobulk pathway

• scSNViz: visualization and analysis of cell-specific expressed SNVs.

  PMID 41533688 · PMC12866635 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  scSNViz is an R package for exploration, quantification, and visualization of expressed SNVs from cell-barcoded scRNA-seq data, supporting VAF estimation, SNV clustering, and 2D/3D visualization.

  prostate non-small cholangiocarcinoma neuroblastoma scrna-seq cell-level single-cell

• ASCL1 promotes nuclear shrinkage in transdifferentiation by suppressing NUP37.

  PMID 41759523 · PMC12985393 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  ASCL1-mediated transdifferentiation (AMp) of human fibroblasts to induced neurons causes marked nuclear shrinkage while cell size remains unchanged

  mrc5 ag22056 ipsc-derived embryonic immunofluorescence single-cell rt-qpcr

• 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

• 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

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  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.

  gtex eye stem retinal bulk differential single-cell

• Charting and probing the activity of ADARs in human development and cell-fate specification.

  PMID 39537590 · PMC11561244 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RNA editing (AEI) and ADAR/ADARB1/ADARB2 expression show organ-specific dynamic shifts across fetal-to-adult developmental stages in human forebrain, hindbrain, heart, liver, kidney, and testis

  organ same 8-week-old week alu site-specific gene

• 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