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).

• DNA methylation of cancer genome.

  PMID 19960550 · PMC2940836 · Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cancer epigenome alterations fall into two main categories: hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes and hypomethylation of oncogenes or heterochromatin.

  embryonic germ heterozygous cancer gene hypomorphic methyltransferase

• The revolution of the biology of the genome.

  PMID 15040884 · PMC7091781 · Cell research · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Polyploidization and gene duplication are the major mechanisms increasing eukaryotic genome size.

  genome drosophila schizosaccharomyces gene est mount comparative

• Context dependent function of APPb enhancer identified using enhancer trap-containing BACs as transgenes in zebrafish.

  PMID 18832376 · PMC2577333 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel enhancer trap method retrofitting BACs with Tn10-based transposons enables nontargeted, functional mapping of noncontiguous cis-regulatory elements as zebrafish transgenes.

  zebrafish bac genomic transgenic field bac

• Functional analysis of human hematopoietic stem cell gene expression using zebrafish.

  PMID 16089502 · PMC1166352 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  277 unique transcripts are differentially expressed between Rho lo and Rho hi HSC-enriched/depleted populations, conserved across both umbilical cord blood and bone marrow

  umbilical ucb zebrafish microarray fluorescence-activated quantitative

• Mice and more.

  PMID 14519193 · PMC328447 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A multispecies weighted conservation score, which accounts for each species' divergence rate, can identify conserved non-coding sequences (multispecies conserved sequences, MCSs) likely to be biologically significant

  cftr ciona embryonic chromosome comparative genome bac-based

• A single cell characterisation of human embryogenesis identifies pluripotency transitions and putative anterior hypoblast centre.

  PMID 34140473 · PMC8211662 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The embryonic epiblast progressively transitions from a naïve to a primed pluripotent state as it develops from pre- to post-implantation.

  embryo single-cell logistic immunofluorescence

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• Application of ecotoxicogenomics for studying endocrine disruption in vertebrates and invertebrates.

  PMID 16818254 · PMC1874166 · Environmental health perspectives · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Estrogen-responsive genes in mouse uterus are induced in a dose-dependent, ER-α-dependent manner, as shown by loss of induction in ER-α knockout mice.

  reproductive american xenopus fundulus cdna receptor developmental

• Genomic and proteomic techniques applied to reproductive biology.

  PMID 11574051 · PMC138959 · Genome biology · 2001 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Knockout of the E6-AP (UBE3A) gene reduces testis and prostate size in male mice and compromises estradiol action in females

  e6-ap fgf9-deficient jsd one-cell gene germ-cell interference

• Tbx5 drives Aldh1a2 expression to regulate a RA-Hedgehog-Wnt gene regulatory network coordinating cardiopulmonary development.

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tbx5 directly maintains Aldh1a2 expression in the foregut lateral plate mesoderm/pSHF via an evolutionarily conserved intronic enhancer.

  micro-dissected dissected e9.5 xenopus bulk rt-qpcr whole-mount

• Zebrafish functional xenograft vasculature platform identifies PF-502 as a durable vasculature normalization drug.

  PMID 37680473 · PMC10480778 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The zebrafish functional xenograft vasculature platform (zFXVP) enables visualization and quantification of structurally and functionally realistic tumor vasculature formation.

  zebrafish endothelial tumor fluorescence edu dextran-tomato

• Recurrent RNA edits in human preimplantation potentially enhance maternal mRNA clearance.

  PMID 36543858 · PMC9772385 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Compiled the largest human embryonic A-to-I editome to date from 2071 RNA-seq transcriptomes and identified thousands of per-stage Recurrent Embryonic Edits (REEs, present in ≥50% of samples per stage)

  preimplantation single uniparental embryos rna-seq paired gene

• Mice have a transcribed L-threonine aldolase/GLY1 gene, but the human GLY1 gene is a non-processed pseudogene.

  PMID 15757516 · PMC555945 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mouse has a transcribed, 7-exon L-threonine aldolase (GLY1) gene on chromosome 11 encoding a 400-residue protein homologous to bacterial threonine aldolase

  liver genomic tissues embryos rt-pcr genomic secondary

• Unexpected novel relational links uncovered by extensive developmental profiling of nuclear receptor expression.

  PMID 17997606 · PMC2065881 · PLoS genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  NR genes are predominantly expressed during organogenesis rather than early embryogenesis

  danio zebrafish coregulator rt-pcr whole-mount phylogenetic

• A cross-species approach to identify transcriptional regulators exemplified for Dnajc22 and Hnf4a.

  PMID 28642491 · PMC5481429 · Scientific reports · 2017 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Hnf4a is a major transcriptional regulator of Dnajc22.

  mus tissues liver-specific kidney bulk microarray chip-seq

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

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

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

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  PEMA, a Ribo-seq-weighted computational framework, characterizes metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more accurately than Compass

  8-cell ch3pn pre-implantation computational single-embryo cut&tag

• CDKL1 variants affecting ciliary formation predispose to thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection.

  PMID 41056017 · PMC12646653 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Heterozygous CDKL1 missense variants (Cys143Arg, Ser206Leu, Thr135Met) were identified in 6 patients from 3 families with TAAD spectrum disorders

  patients cohort cdkl1 aortic exome gene structural

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

  PMID 41253754 · PMC12627582 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Fetal Gli1+ cells (including cells outside the cartilage) are the precursors of postnatal long-lived chondroprogenitors and give rise to most growth-plate chondrocytes juvenile/adult.

  fetal left-cart-p21moe growth gli1creer single-nuclei bulk cre-based

• A chromosome-scale genome assembly and karyotype of the ctenophore Hormiphora californensis.

  PMID 34545398 · PMC8527503 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A chromosome-scale genome assembly of H. californensis spans 110 Mb in 44 scaffolds, with 99.47% of bases in 13 scaffolds

  californensis chromosome pacbio illumina