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).

• Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1β/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils.

  PMID 38358352 · PMC10903300 · Cancer research communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two main neutrophil subtypes exist in primary tumors: an activated subtype sharing transcriptomic signatures with healthy neutrophils, and a tumor-specific subtype.

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• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

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• Parsimonious Gene Correlation Network Analysis (PGCNA): a tool to define modular gene co-expression for refined molecular stratification in cancer.

  PMID 30993001 · PMC6459838 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Retaining only the top ~3 most correlated edges per gene (EPG3) combined with FastUnfold clustering (termed PGCNA) produces gene co-expression modules with significantly better separation and enrichment of known biology than using all edges or other clustering methods.

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• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

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• Identification of a novel 10 immune-related genes signature as a prognostic biomarker panel for gastric cancer.

  PMID 34382341 · PMC8446556 · Cancer medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 10-IRG prognostic signature (BMPR1B, GHR, IL11RA, INHBB, NPR3, OBP2A, PTN, R3HDML, TAC1, TPM2) predicts overall survival in gastric cancer.

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• Construction and Validation of an Immune Infiltration-Related Gene Signature for the Prediction of Prognosis and Therapeutic Response in Breast Cancer.

  PMID 33986754 · PMC8110914 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A higher immune infiltration-related risk score (IRS) indicates worse prognosis and lower sensitivity to immunotherapy in breast cancer patients

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• Expression Patterns of Immune Genes Reveal Heterogeneous Subtypes of High-Risk Neuroblastoma.

  PMID 32629858 · PMC7408437 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Unsupervised biclustering of 283 NB-specific immune genes stratifies HR-NB into two reproducible subtypes: ultra-high-risk (UHR-NB) and (revised) HR-NB.

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• Pan-cancer evaluation of regulated cell death to predict overall survival and immune checkpoint inhibitor response.

  PMID 38538696 · PMC10973470 · NPJ precision oncology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RCD score, defined as the sum of ssGSEA scores of 18 RCD signatures, quantifies overall RCD signaling in a sample

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• Prediction of prognostic signatures in triple-negative breast cancer based on the differential expression analysis via NanoString nCounter immune panel.

  PMID 33138797 · PMC7607642 · BMC cancer · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  edgeR-based DEG selection is more appropriate for feature selection than Elastic Net when sample sizes are small.

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• Comprehensive analysis of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors to predict the drug resistance, immune microenvironment, and prognosis in stomach adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 38529307 · PMC10962337 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PPARA, PPARD and PPARG are more abnormally expressed in STAD samples and cell lines compared to most of 32 cancer types in TCGA

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• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

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• 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

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• A platelet-related signature for predicting the prognosis and immunotherapy benefit in bladder cancer based on machine learning combinations.

  PMID 39280688 · PMC11399026 · Translational andrology and urology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An Enet (alpha=0.4) machine-learning algorithm built from 10 platelet-related genes yields the optimal platelet-related signature (PRS) for bladder cancer prognosis, with average C-index 0.73

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• Bioinformatics Analysis of the Characteristics and Correlation of m6A Methylation in Breast Cancer Progression.

  PMID 35655723 · PMC9148239 · Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer samples can be classified into 4 m6A subtypes (quiescent, m6A methylation, protein-binding, mixed) based on Z-score median of Set1 (writer+reader) and Set2 (eraser) gene expression

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• Machine learning developed an intratumor heterogeneity signature for predicting clinical outcome and immunotherapy benefit in bladder cancer.

  PMID 39100839 · PMC11291408 · Translational andrology and urology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An integrative machine learning procedure (10 methods, 101 algorithm combinations) identified an Enet (alpha=0.2)-based intratumor heterogeneity-related signature (IRS) with the highest average C-index (0.69) across TCGA and GEO cohorts

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

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

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

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A colon cancer subtype with CD8Ahigh IDO1high tumors shows the worst survival despite high CD8 T cell infiltrates

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• Deubiquitination enzyme USP35 negatively regulates MAVS signaling to inhibit anti-tumor immunity.

  PMID 40016186 · PMC11868397 · Cell death & disease · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  USP35 interacts with MAVS and removes its K63-linked polyubiquitin chains, inhibiting viral-induced MAVS-TBK1-IRF3 activation and downstream inflammatory gene expression

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• Constructing an APOBEC-related gene signature with predictive value in the overall survival and therapeutic sensitivity in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 37954334 · PMC10637964 · Heliyon · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APOBEC family genes are differentially expressed across cancer types and tissues, with APOBEC3B being the most aberrantly upregulated gene in most cancers including LUAD

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• Hypoxia-associated genes as predictors of outcomes in gastric cancer: a genomic approach.

  PMID 40129974 · PMC11931070 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A prognostic model built from five H1-specific hypoxia-associated transcription factors (EHF, EIF1AD, GLA, KEAP1, MAGED2) predicts overall survival in STAD, with high-risk patients showing significantly worse OS.

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