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).

• Dissecting origin factors of lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer via multimodal omics.

  PMID 41975179 · PMC13250061 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial cells in mLNs and matched mLN+ primary tumors (mLN+PTs) show enhanced cancer stemness (higher CytoTRACE scores) compared to mLN-negative and normal samples.

  patient-matched mln epithelial tcga-luad scrna-seq spatial cytotrace

• Multi-omics analyses related to unfolded protein response in prostate cancer implicate pro-tumor role of IFRD1.

  PMID 41694360 · PMC12894258 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Luminal prostate epithelial cells, especially the LE-KLK3 subpopulation, show elevated UPR activity compared to other cell types

  pca tcga-prad external scrna-seq bulk immune

• Dissecting the immunosuppressive microenvironment of LAMA3 + malignant cells and SPP1 + macrophages in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41845425 · PMC13104401 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A LAMA3+ epithelial subpopulation (C3) enriched at the invasive tumor front shows strong EMT signatures and is associated with poor prognosis

  escc epithelial scrna-seq tcga-escc scrna-seq spatial infercnv

• Activity of distinct growth factor receptor network components in breast tumors uncovers two biologically relevant subtypes.

  PMID 28446242 · PMC5406893 · Genome medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Application of GFRN pathway signatures to breast tumor gene expression data identifies two discrete phenotypes: a 'survival phenotype' (concordant activation of HER2, IGF1R, AKT) and a 'growth phenotype' (concordant activation of EGFR, KRAS(G12V), RAF1, BAD)

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• In vivo antiviral host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 by viral load, sex, and age.

  PMID 32898168 · PMC7478592 · PLoS biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a strong interferon-driven antiviral response in the nasopharynx, with up-regulation of viral sensors, T cell/NK chemokines, and antiviral effectors

  nasopharyngeal airway patient-matched swab shotgun gsea biological

• scArchon: a scalable benchmarking framework for assessing single-cell perturbation models.

  PMID 42121287 · PMC13162514 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scArchon is a reproducible, modular, Snakemake-based benchmarking platform that evaluates perturbation response prediction tools in a standardized, containerized, extensible manner.

  pbmcs epithelial liver glioblastoma scrna-seq gene dimensionality

• Ectopic CD11c Drives SMAD3-Mediated Aberrant Antigen Presentation and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

  PMID 41799568 · PMC12963642 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 13 setups

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  An ESCC epithelial cell subcluster with ectopic CD11c (ITGAX) expression, found in both mice and humans, exhibits concurrent impaired antigen presentation and EMT phenotypes

  4-nqo-induced escc esophageal lung multiplex flow whole-genome

• Helicobacter pylori-linked gene CFAP73 rewires epithelial programs and shapes the gastric cancer microenvironment.

  PMID 41934579 · PMC13199538 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CFAP73 is progressively downregulated during HP infection and is the top-ranked predictor among nine HP-suppressed genes associated with favorable gastric cancer survival

  gastric tcga-stad tcga t-cell–tumor jonckheere-terpstra survival random

• FOXA1 loss drives basal/squamous de-differentiation of prostate cancer and induces an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41904157 · PMC13195071 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Prostate-specific Foxa1 deletion in Pten-null mice drives tumor progression by reprogramming luminal PCa cells toward a basal/squamous-like de-differentiated state

  prostate epithelial colony lymph h&e immunohistochemistry 10x

• Impact of enteric neuronal loss on intestinal cell composition.

  PMID 42063560 · PMC13127327 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ENS loss in ret mutant zebrafish alters the non-neuronal composition of the intestine, with increased immune cells and shifts in epithelial and ECM-producing populations

  intestine ens immune phox2bb single-cell scrna-seq whole-mount

• Clustering and machine learning-based integration identify cancer associated fibroblasts genes' signature in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37065499 · PMC10098459 · Frontiers in genetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Clustering of 31 CAFs genes across 868 HNSCC samples identifies two distinct molecular patterns (C1, C2) with different survival outcomes

  hnscc combined gse164690 tcga-hnsc ssgsea unsupervised immune

• TGFβ induces an atypical EMT to evade immune mechanosurveillance in lung adenocarcinoma dormant metastasis.

  PMID 41492090 · PMC12858408 · Nature cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TGFβ initially induces a full, typical EMT (stress fibers, loss of epithelial markers, motility) in dormancy-competent LUAD progenitors that subsequently transitions into an atypical spheroidal mesenchymal state lacking actin stress fibers.

  h2087-lcc m802t4-lcc reconstructed immunofluorescence antibody-mediated

• A differential single-cell transcriptome atlas of left-sided and right-sided colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41844817 · PMC13111741 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MTRNR2L8 is markedly upregulated in RCRC tumor cells and is associated with poorer patient survival

  crc epithelial rcrc tcga-read scrna-seq copy gene

• MetaScreener: a robust dual-mode framework for directional prioritization of actionable signatures through multi-dataset and multi-approach integration.

  PMID 41845481 · PMC13107662 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MetaScreener is a dual-mode framework (DiffMetaScreener for discrete labels, CorMetaScreener for continuous variables) integrating over 4,000 analysis pipelines to compute activation/inhibition directionality indices (ADI/IDI/DI) for gene signatures

  crc independent ctrp rko differential robustness single-cell

• A gene signature related to programmed cell death to predict immunotherapy response and prognosis in colon adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 39950044 · PMC11823652 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COAD patients can be divided into two molecular subtypes (S1, S2) based on 21 prognostic PCD-related genes, with S1 showing worse prognosis and immunosuppressive microenvironment, S2 showing better prognosis and stronger anti-tumor immunity

  coad consensus cibersort mcp-counter

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RCC_LM tumors exhibit higher genomic instability (CNV score) than RCC_noM tumors

  right-sided malignant epithelial types scrna-seq copy trajectory

• 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 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• Mitochondrial DNA methylation predicts immunotherapy response and prognosis in lung adenocarcinoma: evidence from scRNA-Seq and machine learning.

  PMID 41663976 · PMC12997902 · BMC cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Differentially expressed MTDM-related genes (DEMTDMRGs) are significantly enriched in cell cycle regulation, ferroptosis, and ABC transporter pathways

  luad demtdmrgs gse131907 wgcna kegg univariate

• Aging-associated differences in mammary tumor-initiating populations and immune evasion pathways in breast cancer.

  PMID 41719331 · PMC12933083 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Age at NMU exposure critically influences tumor incidence, mutational burden, molecular subtype, and the tumor immune microenvironment

  virgin mammary tcga-brca carcinogen-induced immunofluorescence bulk