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).

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

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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 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

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• 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.

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• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

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• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 5 claims · 6 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signatures with bulk HCC transcriptomes to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets and infer cell-type-specific gene expression.

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• 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)

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• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

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• 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

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

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• Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy.

  PMID 39682743 · PMC11640164 · Cells · 2024 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Immune-activation-related T-cell populations (APA, TRM, stem-like, early/late dysfunctional T-cells) are more heavily infiltrated in ICI-responsive malignancies (melanoma, bladder) than in poorly responsive ones (ovarian, pancreatic).

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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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• Stage-stratified molecular profiling of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer enhances biological, clinical, and therapeutic insight.

  PMID 35028613 · PMC8714941 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Stage-stratified molecular subclassification of Ta and T1 tumors provides greater biological understanding and more clinically meaningful information than subtypes derived from all NMIBCs combined.

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• The molecular landscape of sepsis severity in infants: enhanced coagulation, innate immunity, and T cell repression.

  PMID 38817614 · PMC11137207 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Most published adult/other-cohort sepsis gene signatures have limited utility for infant sepsis; only 2 of 7 achieved >80% accuracy in infants

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• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 69

  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

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• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

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• Machine learning-based identification of biomarkers and drugs in immunologically cold and hot pancreatic adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 39152432 · PMC11328457 · Journal of translational medicine · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PAAD tumors can be consensus-clustered into immunologically hot and cold subtypes based on CIBERSORT-derived immune cell fractions, with significantly different survival outcomes.

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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 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A 10 immune-related gene signature (BMPR1B, GHR, IL11RA, INHBB, NPR3, OBP2A, PTN, R3HDML, TAC1, TPM2) was constructed via WGCNA combined with LASSO-Cox and predicts overall survival in gastric cancer

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• Research and experimental verification on the mechanisms of cellular senescence in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 38435998 · PMC10909353 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TNBC can be classified into three molecular subtypes (clusters 1, 2, 3) based on cellular senescence-related pathways, with distinct prognoses (cluster 1 best, then 2, then 3).

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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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• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

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• Decoding the tumor microenvironment and molecular mechanism: unraveling cervical cancer subpopulations and prognostic signatures through scRNA-Seq and bulk RNA-seq analyses.

  PMID 38482016 · PMC10933018 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a key subpopulation that drives differentiation and progression of cervical carcinoma

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