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 Transcriptome Analysis Revealed Heterogeneity and Identified Novel Therapeutic Targets for Breast Cancer Subtypes.

  PMID 37190091 · PMC10137100 · Cells · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of EPCAM+Lin- epithelial cells identified unique gene signatures/markers that distinguish ER+, HER2+, ER+HER2+, and TNBC molecular subtypes

  breast epcam+cd45-cd8a-cd4-cd19-cd3e cancer identified single-cell differential crispr-cas9

• A 14-bp motif in the KIT active promoter region is critical for melanin accumulation in yaks, mice, and humans.

  PMID 40629379 · PMC12239316 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 14-bp deletion in the KIT gene promoter region is associated with the all-white phenotype in yaks, identified via GWAS

  domestic re-sampled hek293t yak whole-genome pcr dual-luciferase

• Genome-scale modeling identifies dynamic metabolic vulnerabilities during the epithelial to mesenchymal transition.

  PMID 39730911 · PMC11681178 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EMT involves temporal, stage-specific metabolic reprogramming with distinct dependencies in glycolysis and glutamine metabolism.

  a549 recon1 cancer lung bulk single-cell genome-scale

• An ancient genome duplication event drives the development and evolution of spinnerets in spiders.

  PMID 41533794 · PMC12802834 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A single whole-genome duplication (WGD) event occurred in the Arachnopulmonata stem lineage during the Silurian (~438 Ma), supported by macrosynteny, Ks distributions, and WHALE gene-tree reconciliation.

  luthela chelicerate arachnid gene chromosome-scale phylogenomics macrosynteny

• OTX2 inhibits human pluripotent stem cell reprogramming toward 8-cell-like and morula-like states.

  PMID 41554740 · PMC12909843 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OTX2 establishes a repressive barrier to the induction of 8CLCs from primed hPSCs

  tprx1-egfp otx2-ko primed preimplantation flow bulk single-cell

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• Systematic elucidation of genetic mechanisms underlying cholesterol uptake.

  PMID 37228746 · PMC10203276 · Cell genomics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in HepG2 cells identifies 490 genes whose disruption alters LDL-C uptake

  hepg2 depmap flow genome-scale individual

• Solute exchange through gap junctions lessens the adverse effects of inactivating mutations in metabolite-handling genes.

  PMID 36107487 · PMC9534548 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer (CRC) cells are coupled by gap junctions assembled predominantly from Cx26 (GJB2)

  colorectal normal crc microarray tcga single-cell

• CRISPR screens in the context of immune selection identify CHD1 and MAP3K7 as mediators of cancer immunotherapy resistance.

  PMID 41564866 · PMC12866162 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CHD1 and MAP3K7 loss additively sensitizes cancer cells to IFN-γ-induced death

  a375 crc-9 ht-29 vcap whole-genome autologous incucyte

• Ectopic expression of BEX genes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  PMID 40811813 · PMC12830129 · Blood advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Bex1 (and to a lesser extent Bex4) is ectopically expressed in Pten-deficient mouse T-ALL blasts

  thymocytes thymocyte t-all normal scrna-seq rt-qpcr bulk

• Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing regulates cardiogenesis.

  PMID 41537425 · PMC12807453 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Rtf1 activity is essential for differentiation of the myocardial lineage from mesoderm

  zebrafish embryo embryonic mescs crispr situ shrna

• Genome-wide kinetic properties of transcriptional bursting in mouse embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 32596448 · PMC7299619 · Science advances · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Transcriptional bursting kinetics is regulated by a combination of promoter- and gene body-binding proteins, including the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and transcription elongation factors

  cast knock-in mesc mescs single-cell single-molecule flow

• Prime editing in mice reveals the essentiality of a single base in driving tissue-specific gene expression.

  PMID 33722289 · PMC7962346 · Genome biology · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A three-base-pair (HDR) or single-base (PE2) substitution in the Tspan2 CArG box causes cell-specific loss of Tspan2 mRNA in aorta and bladder, but not heart or brain

  tissues zygotes aorta spleen qrt-pcr allele-specific restriction

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

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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

  e9.5 xenopus bulk rt-qpcr whole-mount

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• The ubiquitin ligase KLHL6 drives resistance to CD8(+) T cell dysfunction.

  PMID 41535474 · PMC12979199 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KLHL6 is a dual-negative regulator of both T cell exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction

  cd8+ cas9+ sgklhl6-transduced klhl6 bulk pooled flow

• Defactinib inhibits PYK2 phosphorylation of IRF5 and reduces intestinal inflammation.

  PMID 34795257 · PMC8602323 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 12 setups

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  PYK2 was identified as a putative IRF5 kinase via a kinase inhibitor library screen in macrophages

  raw264.7 hektlr4 hoxb8-derived colon kinase co-immunoprecipitation co-ip

• Omics-aided design genome editing strategy for challenging human immortalized cell models.

  PMID 41678468 · PMC12900285 · PloS one · 2026 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Omics profiling identifies bottlenecks associated with poor precise KI efficiency in hard-to-engineer cells

  mcf7 deep-targeted bulk dia-based

• Remodeling of XIST regulatory landscape during primate evolution.

  PMID 41544163 · PMC12810636 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  XIST regulation has diverged uniquely and rapidly between closely related primates: JPX is a major XIST regulator in human and marmoset ESCs but only a minor regulator in macaque ESCs

  lyon-es1 rna-fish bulk capture

• Distal enhancers regulate mammalian early embryonic lineage differentiation through long-range interactions.

  PMID 41562256 · PMC12820533 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lineage-specific H3K27ac is predominantly enriched at distal enhancers rather than promoters, indicating first-lineage differentiation relies on distal enhancer activity

  pre-implantation low-cell-number 8-cell zygotes cut&tag atac-seq sequencing