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).

• 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

• Transcriptomics, regulatory syntax, and enhancer identification in mesoderm-induced ESCs at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 35977485 · PMC9644345 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Bmp4 treatment instructs ESCs to downregulate pluripotency genes and upregulate genes associated with formative pluripotency and fate specification

  escs naive facs-isolated freshly bulk atac-seq chip-seq

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic profiling of cardiac fibroblasts following myocardial infarction.

  PMID 41526391 · PMC12890913 · Scientific data · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Cthrc1+ Reparative Cardiac Fibroblasts (RCFs) are the primary driver of the cardiac healing process after myocardial infarction

  col1α1-gfp+ heart frozen bulk single-cell spatial

• Dynamic reversal of random X-Chromosome inactivation during iPSC reprogramming.

  PMID 31515287 · PMC6771397 · Genome research · 2019 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  XCR during iPSC reprogramming is hierarchical, with distinct subsets of X-linked genes reactivating early, intermediate, late, and very late

  mus mefs bulk independent allele-specific fluorescence-activated live

• Bacterial chromatin remodeling associated with transcription-induced domains at pathogenicity Islands.

  PMID 41507177 · PMC12783615 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Silent SPIs display spurious antisense transcription originating from H-NS-free regions

  salmonella facs hi-c chip

• Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of plant quiescent center by third-generation sequencing reveals developmental trajectories.

  PMID 41664205 · PMC12990480 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Developed an improved protoplasting/hand-picking protocol enabling isolation of intact QC cells for single-cell long-read RNA sequencing (SCAN-seq)

  arabidopsis single-cell rt-pcr agarose

• 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

• Antigen and checkpoint receptor engagement recalibrates T cell receptor signal strength.

  PMID 34534438 · PMC8585507 · Immunity · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  TCR signal strength drives dynamic and time-dependent transcriptional changes in CD4+ T cells in vivo

  tg4 splenic sorted flow bulk checkpoint

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• Functional genomics analysis of developing zebrafish and human endoderm reveals highly conserved cis-regulatory modules acting during vertebrate organogenesis.

  PMID 41781333 · PMC7619044 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  There are few endoderm-specific CRMs; many CRMs governing pancreas development also likely act within the nervous system

  zebrafish embryonic atac-seq bulk facs

• Differential bone morphology and hypoxia activity in skeletal metastases of ER(+) and ER(-) breast cancer.

  PMID 39572705 · PMC11582807 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ER− MDA-MB-231 breast cancer forms more osteolytic bone metastases than ER+ MCF-7 breast cancer

  mcf-7 breast bone tumor-free immunofluorescence co-culture rna-seq

• Cell-type- and chromosome-specific chromatin landscapes and DNA replication programs of Drosophila testis tumor stem cell-like cells.

  PMID 41371963 · PMC12758400 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GSC-like and CySC-like cells isolated from upd tumor testes are transcriptionally comparable to wild-type GSC/early-spermatogonia and CySC clusters, respectively

  upd gsc-like wild-type scrna-seq differential gene

• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• The transcription factor HHEX maintains glucocorticoid levels and protects adrenals from androgen-induced lipid depletion.

  PMID 41519914 · PMC12891536 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HHEX is the most enriched transcription factor in glucocorticoid-producing zona fasciculata (zF) cells, conserved across mouse, rat, and human adrenal

  sf1-cre-high adrenocortical scrna-seq rnascope immunohistochemistry

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

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

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  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Reactive astrocytes acquire neuroprotective as well as deleterious signatures in response to Tau and Aß pathology.

  PMID 35013236 · PMC8748982 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aβ (APP/PS1) and Tau (MAPT P301S) pathology induce distinct but overlapping astrocyte translatome signatures

  astrocytes aldh1l1_egfp-rpl10a astrocyte ageing trap-seq immunofluorescence ribosome

• 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

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

  elegans short-read whole-animal rt-pcr

• Lineage-specific, fast-evolving GATA-like gene regulates zygotic gene activation to promote endoderm specification and pattern formation in the Theridiidae spider.

  PMID 36203191 · PMC9535882 · BMC biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative RNA-seq of cells isolated from central, intermediate, and peripheral regions of stage-3 embryos identifies genes with locally restricted expression genome-wide

  tepidariorum drosophila rna-seq whole-mount parental

• The tumour suppressor L(3)mbt inhibits neuroepithelial proliferation and acts on insulator elements.

  PMID 21857667 · PMC3173870 · Nature cell biology · 2011 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Brain tumors in l(3)mbt mutants originate from overproliferation of neuroepithelial cells of the optic lobes, not from defects in asymmetric cell division.

  drosophila chip-seq chip immunostaining