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).

• Gene Ontology annotations: what they mean and where they come from.

  PMID 18460184 · PMC2367625 · BMC bioinformatics · 2008 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  A GO annotation is a formal statement linking a gene product type to a molecular function, biological process, or cellular component type, based on experimental observations or inferences.

  extract embryo preimplantation enzymatic mutational immunofluorescence

• Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality.

  PMID 40990923 · PMC12687342 · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The LWS opsin gene was identified in 13 species of caecilians spanning 8 of 10 recognized families

  caecilian caecilia archival lws pcr eye histology

• Müller glial and microglial responses coupled to recovery of cone photoreceptors following limited cone ablation in zebrafish retina.

  PMID 41691075 · PMC12992573 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  24-hour 10mM Mtz immersion of adult gnat2:nfsb-mCherry zebrafish causes death of only a limited number of cone photoreceptors rather than widespread ablation

  retinal retina dissociated live tunel immunofluorescence rt-qpcr

• Dynamic transcriptomic remodeling in grafted human neural progenitor cells uncovers mechanisms for vision preservation in a rat model of retinitis pigmentosa.

  PMID 41792118 · PMC12966429 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Grafted hNPCs primarily differentiate into an astroglial phenotype and mature over time in the degenerative retinal environment

  grafted rcs hnpcs single-cell electroretinography immunofluorescence

• Genetically engineered stem cell-derived retinal grafts for improved retinal reconstruction after transplantation.

  PMID 34409267 · PMC8361135 · iScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Bhlhb4−/− and Islet1−/− pluripotent cell lines differentiate into retinal organoids with similar timing, morphology, and gene expression to wt lines up to around DD15

  bhlhb4− nrl-gfp rd1 fluorescence rt-pcr microarray

• Single-cell transcriptomics reveals maturation of transplanted stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells toward native state.

  PMID 37339216 · PMC10293804 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Subretinally transplanted stem cell-derived RPE (ESC- and iPSC-derived) retain RPE identity and survive in vivo for at least 30 days in immunocompetent rabbit eyes

  hpsc-derived day esc dutch qrt-pcr immunofluorescence transepithelial

• Combining transcriptional profiling and genetic linkage analysis to uncover gene networks operating in hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny.

  PMID 18560825 · PMC2493868 · Immunogenetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neither transcriptional profiling alone nor genetic linkage analysis alone has been an effective approach to identify genes or gene networks that specify stemness or initiate differentiation/lineage specification.

  escs fibroblasts hematopoietic bxd transcriptional forced long-term

• Endothelial stem cells of the retinal vasculature reside in the optic nerve.

  PMID 41577708 · PMC12830651 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD157+CD201+ endothelial stem cells (VESCs) reside predominantly in the optic nerve and supply endothelial cells to the retina

  cd45negcd31+ sorted retina procr[cd201]-creert2 flow colony-forming flat-mount

• In vivo application of RNA interference: from functional genomics to therapeutics.

  PMID 16096010 · PMC7112075 · Advances in genetics · 2005 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  RNAi operates through two mechanistically related but distinct pathways: cytoplasmic delivery of siRNA duplexes and nuclear delivery of shRNA expression cassettes that mimic miRNA

  mice tumor laser-induced herpetic cationic intraperitoneal aqueous

• Splicing variants in MYRF cause partial loss of function in the retinal pigment epithelium leading to nanophthalmos.

  PMID 41746734 · PMC13043084 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The dG-MYRF C-terminal frameshift variant undergoes normal homotrimerization, cleavage, and nuclear localization but shows reduced steady-state levels of the C-terminal cleavage product and decreased transcriptional activation of target genes.

  arpe-19 myrf rpe e17.5 immunofluorescence computational cycloheximide

• Annotation and analysis of 10,000 expressed sequence tags from developing mouse eye and adult retina.

  PMID 14519200 · PMC328454 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Annotation of 8,633 high-quality non-mitochondrial/non-ribosomal ESTs shows 57% represent known genes and 43% are unknown or novel, with M15E having the highest proportion of novel ESTs

  embryonic high-quality unique m15e est sequence comparative

• Heterochronic transcription factor expression drives cone-dominant retina development in 13-lined ground squirrels.

  PMID 41649260 · PMC12880807 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  13LGS cone photoreceptors arise from both early-stage and late-stage neurogenic progenitors, unlike mice where cones arise only from early-stage progenitors

  13-lined retina 13lgs retinal single-cell scrna-seq chromvar

• Phase transition specified by a binary code patterns the vertebrate eye cup.

  PMID 34757798 · PMC8580326 · Science advances · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  FGF signaling is required for ciliary margin (CM) development; loss of FGFRs in peripheral retina abolishes CM markers and causes aniridia

  embryonic e13.5 retina immunostaining single-cell velocity

• 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

• Clinical and genetic findings in Hungarian patients with X-linked juvenile retinoschisis.

  PMID 19093009 · PMC2603250 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  OCT detects foveal and lamellar macular retinoschisis more frequently than funduscopy alone

  xlrs genomic optical full-field multifocal

• ARSACS in the Dutch population: a frequent cause of early-onset cerebellar ataxia.

  PMID 18465152 · PMC2441586 · Neurogenetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  37% (16/43) of Dutch index patients with early-onset recessive cerebellar ataxia carry SACS mutations, indicating ARSACS is far more frequent than previously estimated

  genomic identified sacs-mutation-positive alleles pcr clinical brain

• Cis-regulatory evolution reveals sensory trade-offs as a genetic basis for temporal niche evolution in tapirs.

  PMID 41779860 · PMC12959415 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tapirs reverted from a cathemeral ancestor to a nocturnal/crepuscular niche, accompanied by coordinated sensory reallocation: regressive vision (corneal opacity, reduced acuity) with enhanced auditory and chemosensory systems.

  terrestris single-copy mammalian tapir whole-genome comparative ancestral

• Have microarrays failed to deliver for developmental biology?

  PMID 12225576 · PMC139405 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Despite predictions that microarrays would transform biology, very few published developmental biology microarray studies have generated novel insights.

  drosophila caenorhabditis developing xenopus cdna genome-wide microarray

• NEIBank: genomics and bioinformatics resources for vision research.

  PMID 18648525 · PMC2480482 · Molecular vision · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  NEIBank is an integrated genomics and bioinformatics resource for vision research, combining EST/cDNA clone data, SAGE expression data, and eye disease gene databases.

  dissected eye retina cdna est serial sequence