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).

• CanCellCap: robust cancer cell capture across tissue types on single-cell RNA-seq data by multi-domain learning.

  PMID 40739511 · PMC12312500 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 42

  CanCellCap, a multi-domain learning framework integrating domain adversarial learning and Mixture of Experts, identifies cancer cells across all tissues, cancers, and sequencing platforms by extracting tissue-common and tissue-specific gene expression patterns.

  testing datasets tisch2 prostate scrna-seq simulated spatial

• Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references.

  PMID 37379341 · PMC10335708 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  mtANN integrates multiple reference datasets and eight gene selection methods via ensemble learning (multiple deep classification models + majority voting) to improve cell-type annotation accuracy

  pbmc pancreas covid-19 scrna-seq

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• 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

• 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

• Mapping the Development of Human Spermatogenesis Using Transcriptomics-Based Data: A Scoping Review.

  PMID 39000031 · PMC11241379 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  scRNA-seq of human testis reveals major transcriptional modifications occurring around 11 years of age, marking a transition toward the adult cellular state

  fetal neonatal prepubertal peripubertal scrna-seq

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis is proposed to overcome methodological inconsistencies.

  breast ctcs nsclc neuroblastoma scrna-seq

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• 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

• Mouse-Geneformer: A deep learning model for mouse single-cell transcriptome and its cross-species utility.

  PMID 40106407 · PMC11964219 · PLoS genetics · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Mouse-Geneformer, a Transformer Encoder model pre-trained via masked-token self-supervised learning on mouse-Genecorpus-20M, was successfully constructed following the original human Geneformer architecture.

  healthy scrna-seq disease scrna-seq type perturbation

• To Explore the Key Subgroup and Their Immune Microenvironment During the Formation of Coronary Plaque With scRNA-seq.

  PMID 40454289 · PMC12126265 · Cardiology research and practice · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 33

  C1 RACK1+ NK cells are a crucial subgroup for understanding coronary plaque formation, exhibiting the highest cell stemness/differentiation potential and positioned at the start of the pseudotime trajectory

  coronary scrna-seq five type single-cell doublet copy

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• Assessing personalized molecular portraits underlying endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition within pulmonary arterial hypertension.

  PMID 39462326 · PMC11513636 · Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of PAH and control lung tissue identifies nine distinct cell populations with high heterogeneity in composition, function, distribution, and communication

  lung pah scrna-seq-derived endothelial scrna-seq bulk cell-cell

• 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

• Identification of the shared hub gene signatures and molecular mechanisms between HIV-1 and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

  PMID 38528047 · PMC10963360 · Scientific reports · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  HIV-1 and PAH share 109 co-expressed genes primarily enriched in type I interferon (IFN) pathways.

  pbmc shared gene microarray kegg

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Multicellular Ecosystem of Nucleus Pulposus during Degeneration Progression.

  PMID 34825784 · PMC8787427 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Human NP contains six transcriptionally distinct NPC subpopulations: HT-CLNPs, effector NPCs, homeostatic NPCs, regulatory NPCs, fibroNPCs, and adhesion NPCs

  npcs scrna-seq-derived ht-clnp-i g-mdscs single-cell rt-qpcr immunohistochemistry

• CD14(lo)CD301b(+) macrophages gathering as a proangiogenic marker in adipose tissues.

  PMID 39645040 · PMC11745947 · Journal of lipid research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  Cd14−/− mice exhibit a leaner body shape and are protected from HFD-induced obesity compared to WT mice

  epididymal adipose cd14low macrophage bulk scrna-seq pseudotime

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are more abundant in the circulation of metastatic melanoma patients who respond to anti-PD-1 therapy than in non-responders, before and during therapy.

  peripheral cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived pbmc high-dimensional single-cell flow

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Genetic variation–based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on cancer scRNA-seq tissue using a pooled experimental design, achieving high recall at acceptable precision-recall tradeoffs in both high-CNV (HGSOC) and high-SNV (lung adenocarcinoma) cancers, even with extremely high doublet proportions.

  high-grade lung hgsoc healthy single-cell matched doublet