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).

• Cardiac conduction system malformations in heterotaxy result from dysregulated Pitx2 expression.

  PMID 41734036 · PMC13043103 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryptic-/- embryos (right isomerism model) develop bilateral sinoatrial nodes and an ectopic anterior AV node and bundle, accompanied by reduced Pitx2 expression

  cryptic embryo pitx2 lefty1 situ immunostaining cardiac

• 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

• Sox8 remodels the cranial ectoderm to generate the ear.

  PMID 35867760 · PMC9282420 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sox8 sits at the top of a core transcriptional circuit (Sox8, Pax2, Lmx1a, Zbtb16) that determines otic identity

  chick bulk single-cell chipseq

• 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 integrated world of functional genomics.

  PMID 12537543 · PMC151279 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integrating chromatin immunoprecipitation (promoter-binding) data with expression data reveals the yeast cell-cycle transcriptional regulatory network, including network motifs such as autoregulation, multi-component loops, and feedforward loops.

  cerevisiae sequenced elegans drosophila chromatin integration comparative

• TccP2-mediated subversion of actin dynamics by EPEC 2 - a distinct evolutionary lineage of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

  PMID 17526832 · PMC2884950 · Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2007 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  tccP2 is present in 26 of 27 (96.2%) EPEC 2 lineage strains and absent from all 34 EPEC 1 strains tested

  clinical pcr-negative representative whole-cell conventional colony locus-specific

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• Systems biology of gene regulation fulfills its promise.

  PMID 16719937 · PMC1779525 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Suz12, a Polycomb Group complex component, has DNA targets identifiable by ChIP-chip and can silence large genomic regions in a cell-type-specific manner.

  unspecified embryonic five yeast chip-chip chip-pet computational

• 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

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• Mitochondrial localization and function of a subset of 22q11 deletion syndrome candidate genes.

  PMID 18775783 · PMC2729512 · Molecular and cellular neurosciences · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Six 22q11 genes (Mrpl40, Prodh, Slc25a1, Txnrd2, T10, Zdhhc8) encode proteins that localize to mitochondria, including neuronal/synaptic mitochondria.

  orthologues nih-3t3 3t3 mefs bioinformatic egfp co-transfection

• 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

• Chromosome-scale Elaeis guineensis and E. oleifera assemblies: comparative genomics of oil palm and other Arecaceae.

  PMID 38918881 · PMC11373658 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Improved E. guineensis genome assembly achieved with substantially increased continuity and completeness compared to prior assemblies

  guineensis oleifera root pacbio proximity optical

• Dynamic regulation of spermatogenesis and hybrid sterility revealed by single-cell analysis in yak and cattle.

  PMID 41622528 · PMC12916010 · Molecular biology and evolution · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cattle and yak testes contain seven types of spermatogonia, ten spermatocyte subtypes, and ten spermatid types with largely conserved transcriptional programs governing spermatogenic fate transitions.

  testicular spermatocytes spermatids bc1 single-cell chromosome hematoxylin