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).

• Mammary cell gene expression atlas links epithelial cell remodeling events to breast carcinogenesis.

  PMID 34079055 · PMC8172904 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 96

  An integrated 50K mouse and 24K human mammary epithelial cell atlas (scRNA-seq) captures mammary epithelium reorganization across most lifetime stages.

  surgically mammary menopaused integrated single-cell scrna-seq mammary

• Integrative analysis reveals chemokines CCL2 and CXCL5 mediated shear stress-induced aortic dissection formation.

  PMID 38163105 · PMC10757018 · Heliyon · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  Chemokines CCL2 and CXCL5 mediate a shear stress-induced 'Endothelial-Monocyte-Neutrophil' axis that contributes to aortic dissection development.

  ascending aortic clinical bulk bulk single-cell western

• Cell fixation and preservation for droplet-based single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 28526029 · PMC5438562 · BMC biology · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  Methanol fixation stabilizes and preserves dissociated cells for weeks without compromising single-cell RNA-seq data quality

  hek293 dissociated facs-sorted hek drop-seq bulk trizol

• 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

  Has reproduction · 84

  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

• DeepGSEA: explainable deep gene set enrichment analysis for single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 38950178 · PMC11236288 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2024 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 40

  DeepGSEA is an explainable deep gene set enrichment analysis method built on interpretable, prototype-based neural networks.

  simulated real-world simulation scrna-seq-based

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing highlights a curtailed NK cell function in convalescent COVID-19 pregnant women.

  PMID 40661959 · PMC12257036 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  NK cells show a sustained reduction during active SARS-CoV-2 infection and persisting after recovery in pregnant women

  pbmcs serum 14-color single-cell 13-plex

• FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 34909283 · PMC8641482 · PeerJ · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  The FEM algorithm converts each cell's gene expression matrix (GEM) into a functional expression matrix by applying Fisher's exact test enrichment per cell and per gene set, then encoding adjusted p-values as information content.

  peripheral pancreas liver pbmc scrna-seq differential dimensionality

• Proneural-mesenchymal antagonism dominates the patterns of phenotypic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

  PMID 38433919 · PMC10905000 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  The four proposed GBM molecular subtypes (Proneural, Neural, Classical, Mesenchymal / NPC-like, OPC-like, AC-like, MES-like) are not mutually exclusive or independent of one another

  scrna-seq tcga-gbm gse131928 tumor gene pairwise principal

• Single-Cell Differential Network Analysis with Sparse Bayesian Factor Models.

  PMID 35186014 · PMC8855158 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 2 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  A hierarchical Bayesian factor model using treatment-dependent latent factor loadings can construct gene co-expression networks from scRNA-seq data and identify differences in network structure between two (or more) biological conditions.

  simulated sars-cov-2 scrna-seq

• Unraveling the timeline of gene expression: A pseudotemporal trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 37994351 · PMC10663991 · F1000Research · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  A reproducible R-based workflow combines Seurat (QC, clustering, integration), monocle3 (trajectory inference), and edgeR (pseudo-bulk time course analysis) to perform single-cell pseudotemporal time course analysis.

  mammary five singlecellexperiment individual droplet-based quality doublet

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

  normal er+ epithelial malignant single-cell spatial copy

• Enhancing cell subpopulation discovery in cancer by integrating single-cell transcriptome and expressed variants.

  PMID 41647537 · PMC12869734 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  scCluster, an end-to-end deep clustering model integrating gene expression and expressed variant (eSNP) features, stratifies cell subpopulations in cancer scRNA-seq data.

  raw real-world expressed gene deep

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 51

  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• Functional module detection through integration of single-cell RNA sequencing data with protein-protein interaction networks.

  PMID 33138772 · PMC7607865 · BMC genomics · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  scPPIN integrates scRNA-seq-derived p-values with PPINs to detect maximum-weight connected subgraphs (active/functional modules) via an exact Steiner-tree approach

  liver hepatocyte detected adipose single-cell differential protein-protein

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Single-cell RNA-seq enables unbiased characterization of liver cell states, developmental trajectories and rare immune populations that bulk averaging obscures, redefining liver cell-type mapping.

  c57bl liver whole-liver hepatocytes scrna-seq facs-based plate-based

• A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood.

  PMID 32396065 · PMC7237219 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  scRNA-seq of Drosophila larval hemocytes across unwounded, wounded, and wasp-infested conditions resolves 17 clusters spanning plasmatocytes, crystal cells, lamellocytes, and a non-hemocyte population.

  drosophila single-cell quantitative bulk

• 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

  Has reproduction · 70

  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

• Creation of a Single Cell RNASeq Meta-Atlas to Define Human Liver Immune Homeostasis.

  PMID 34335581 · PMC8322955 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Independent human liver immune scRNA-seq datasets can be combined into an integrated meta-atlas in which all datasets co-cluster, despite differing cell-type proportions between studies.

  liver combined normal differential scrna-seq integrated reference

• A novel oxidative stress-related gene signature as an indicator of prognosis and immunotherapy responses in HNSCC.

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  A nine-gene oxidative stress-related scoring (OSRS) model (AREG, CES1, CSTA, FDCSP, JCHAIN, IFFO2, PGLYRP4, SPOCK2, SPINK6) predicts overall survival in HNSCC.

  tcga-hnscc gse41613 gse103322 prjeb23709 bulk single-cell immunotherapy

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox