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).

• Developmental dynamics of catshark cranial neural crest cells provide insights into gnathostome facial evolution.

  PMID 41987760 · PMC13200729 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The molecular toolkit of CNCCs is largely conserved across jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes)

  scyliorhinus catshark chicken immunofluorescence single-cell umap

• Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73) in mouse retina under physiological conditions.

  PMID 41560519 · PMC12912271 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CD73 expression in the neural retina is restricted to the rod-photoreceptor lineage and becomes robustly detectable from postnatal day (P) 3 onward, persisting into adulthood.

  cd73-bac-egfp cd73-creert2 scrna-seq cd73-knockout immunofluorescence genetic whole-mount

• Alternative splicing dynamics during human cardiac development in vivo and in vitro.

  PMID 41483812 · PMC12925949 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPSC-CMs globally resemble prenatal cardiac cells at both the transcriptional and splicing levels

  ipsc-cms heart bulk ipsc-cm immunofluorescence single-cell bulk

• An in vivo and in vitro spatiotemporal profile of human midbrain development.

  PMID 41633979 · PMC12877092 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  By 22 post-conceptional weeks (PCW), fetal ventral midbrain tissue exhibits structural complexity comparable to adult tissue

  fetal ipsc-derived dopamine immunohistochemistry immunofluorescence droplet-based

• Involvement of N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN genes in breast cancer and muscle cell development.

  PMID 38859961 · PMC11163233 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN, normally highly expressed in breast myoepithelial and smooth muscle cells, are significantly downregulated in breast tumor tissue of a 50-patient cohort

  breast paired embryonic hesc-derived bulk rt-qpcr immunofluorescence

• Polycomb repressive-deubiquitinase complex safeguards oocyte epigenome and female fertility by restraining Polycomb activity.

  PMID 41851118 · PMC13153255 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  BAP1 (PR-DUB catalytic subunit) restricts pervasive, genome-wide H2AK119ub1 accumulation in mouse oocytes

  zygotes oocytes fgo fgos microinjection bulk western

• Pre-implantation embryo metabolism identified by PEMA reveals endogenous lactate insufficiency contributes to pre-implantation development arrest.

  PMID 42272466 · PMC13247451 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  PEMA, a computational tool that weights metabolic reactions using Ribo-seq data combined with RNA-seq-derived flux balance analysis, can characterize metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more precisely than existing methods like Compass.

  embryos pre-implantation ch3pn single-embryo immunofluorescence single-cell

• CITED2 is a druggable epigenetic switch coupling neuronal maturation to regenerative decline.

  PMID 41731079 · PMC13083982 · EMBO molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The transition from immature non-polarized to mature polarized DRG neurons (E12.5-E17.5) is associated with loss of gene expression signatures needed for regenerative growth competence.

  drg sciatic rna-seq integrated immunofluorescence

• Development of double-positive thymocytes at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 33771202 · PMC8004397 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  DP thymocytes can be classified into blast, rearrangement, and selection subtypes, distinguishable by surface markers CD2 and Ly6d

  thymocytes sorted thymocyte scrna-seq flow immunofluorescence

• Proteomics identifies multipotent and low oncogenic risk stem cells of the spleen.

  PMID 20005973 · PMC2891339 · The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology · 2010 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CD45- splenic stem cell-specific proteins are identical to core iPS/ES markers OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, c-MYC and NANOG.

  spleen cd45 hox11+ lc-ms rt-pcr immunofluorescence

• Oxidative stress and GPX2 control pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate in human endoderm.

  PMID 41484137 · PMC12881361 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GPX2 is a critical regulator of human posterior foregut differentiation, with oxidative stress acting as a key determinant of pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate

  hpsc-derived hpsc fetal bulk immunofluorescence flow

• Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability.

  PMID 41949281 · PMC13061419 · eLife · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Human marker genes are less effective in macaques and vice versa, showing limited transferability of markers across species.

  ipsc-derived day integrated ipscs scrna-seq flow immunofluorescence

• A new family of giardial cysteine-rich non-VSP protein genes and a novel cyst protein.

  PMID 17183673 · PMC1762436 · PloS one · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  HCNCp is a novel invariant (non-variant) cyst protein belonging to a new family of high-cysteine membrane proteins (HCMp) abundant in the Giardia genome

  giardia serial northern western

• Biphasic expression of thyroid hormone receptor TRβ1 in mammalian retina and anterior ocular tissues.

  PMID 37033230 · PMC10076699 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TRβ1 shows a biphasic, late-peaking expression profile in retina that contrasts with the early embryonic peak of TRβ2

  retina fetal retinal cones rna-seq lacz immunofluorescence

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analyses reveal tumor microenvironment-driven proliferation of NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas.

  PMID 41957607 · PMC13200446 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  NF2-VS tumors comprise 12 major cell lineages with distinct TME composition between Gardner and Wishart phenotypes

  vestibular fresh nf2-vs fibroblast scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• The reprogramming and function of H4K20me1 during early embryo development.

  PMID 42020515 · PMC13261155 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Low-input CUT&RUN (as few as 100 cells) reliably maps H4K20me1 and correlates strongly with conventional ChIP-seq

  k562 oocytes embryos zebrafish cut&run chip-seq immunofluorescence

• Hippo signaling differentially regulates distal progenitor subpopulations and their transitional states to construct the mammalian lungs.

  PMID 41932885 · PMC13219436 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A fraction (15-50%) of the distal SOX9+ tip progenitor subdomain is sufficient to direct lung outgrowth through branch bifurcation, providing a mechanism for lung size control

  lung whole-mount immunofluorescence single-cell

• Feed-forward loops by NR5A2 ensure robust gene activation during pre-implantation development.

  PMID 41355514 · PMC12848575 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NR5A2 chromatin binding is dynamic, changing genome-wide from the 2-cell to the morula stage, with peak numbers and target regions (e.g. SINE B1/Alu) shifting over developmental time

  2-cell embryonic 8-cell zygotes cut&tag chip-seq h3k27ac

• Aurkb deficiency disrupts microglial development, homeostasis and hinders remyelination following cuprizone-induced demyelination.

  PMID 41704758 · PMC12907124 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aurkb is upregulated in a subset of fetal/neonatal microglia and in microglia following CPZ-induced demyelination and in MS patient microglia

  microglia brain neonatal corpus scrna-seq western immunofluorescence

• MEIOC prevents continued mitotic cycling and promotes meiotic entry during mouse oogenesis.

  PMID 41287933 · PMC12848572 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  MEIOC prevents continued mitotic cycling in preleptotene oocytes prior to meiotic entry

  e16.5 e14.5 ovarian edu bulk single-cell