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).

• CHD7 regulates otic lineage specification and hair cell differentiation in human inner ear organoids.

  PMID 36396635 · PMC9672366 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of CHD7 or its ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling activity causes complete absence of hair cells and supporting cells in inner ear organoids

  inner facs-isolated hescs hesc immunostaining scrna-seq western

• Development of a split-toxin CRISPR screening platform to systematically identify regulators of human myoblast fusion.

  PMID 41540035 · PMC12808753 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A CRISPR screening platform combining human myoblast models, a custom muscle-targeted gRNA library (MyoCRISPR-KO Lib), and a split-toxin selection system enables quantitative enrichment of fusion-defective myocytes.

  myoblasts myoblast time-course immunostaining gene

• MerTK-triggered TGFβ1 autocrine signal regulates microglial response to neurodegeneration.

  PMID 41634038 · PMC12976283 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglial response to pathological axonal degeneration (optic nerve injury) depends on the phagocytic receptor MerTK

  optic facs-sorted microglia co-immunostaining qpcr bulk

• Exposure to the widely used herbicide atrazine results in deregulation of global tissue-specific RNA transcription in the third generation and is associated with a global decrease of histone trimethylation in mice.

  PMID 27655631 · PMC5175363 · Nucleic acids research · 2016 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic ATZ exposure affects meiosis, spermiogenesis and reduces spermatozoa number in F3 generation male mice

  testis dissociated epididymis chip-seq strand-specific h&e

• Tbx5 drives Aldh1a2 expression to regulate a RA-Hedgehog-Wnt gene regulatory network coordinating cardiopulmonary development.

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tbx5 directly maintains Aldh1a2 expression in the foregut lateral plate mesoderm via an evolutionarily conserved intronic enhancer

  e9.5 xenopus bulk rt-qpcr whole-mount

• The tumour suppressor L(3)mbt inhibits neuroepithelial proliferation and acts on insulator elements.

  PMID 21857667 · PMC3173870 · Nature cell biology · 2011 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Brain tumors in l(3)mbt mutants originate from overproliferation of neuroepithelial cells of the optic lobes, not from defects in asymmetric cell division.

  drosophila chip-seq chip immunostaining

• ChIP-seq guidelines and practices of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortia.

  PMID 22955991 · PMC3431496 · Genome research · 2012 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ENCODE/modENCODE define a set of working standards and guidelines for ChIP-seq covering antibody validation, experimental replication, sequencing depth, data/metadata reporting, and data quality assessment.

  small-genome nuclear whole-cell encode chip-seq chip-chip immunoblot

• 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

• 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 atlas of the developing Down syndrome brain cortex.

  PMID 41545595 · PMC13004680 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RORB/FOXP1-expressing L4-like excitatory neurons are subtype-specifically and dramatically reduced in Down syndrome fetal cortex, especially at later stages (PCW16-20)

  fetal excitatory neural humanized single-nucleus immunostaining compositional

• Mosaic partial epidermal reprogramming remodels neighbors and niches to refine skin homeostasis and repair.

  PMID 41617708 · PMC12960685 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A genetically engineered mouse model (Krt14-CreER; LSL-rtTA-EGFP; TetO-OSKM-mCherry, 'Epi-iOSKM') enables transient, reversible, mosaic OSKM expression in interfollicular epidermal cells without inducing pluripotency or teratoma risk

  epidermis sorted epidermal ife immunostaining single-cell pseudotime

• 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

• Spatial cartography of human thymus enables the geopositioning of lineage transcription factors in rare mimetic thymic epithelial cells.

  PMID 41807357 · PMC13102919 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Generated a high-resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of human fetal (13,14,17,18w) and paediatric (7w,2y,5y,6y) thymi using Stereo-seq, integrated with scRNA-seq and MACSima/Stereo-CITE proteomics

  fetal paediatric thymus stereo-seq scrna-seq macsima

• CASK loss of function differentially regulates neuronal maturation and synaptic function in human induced cortical excitatory neurons.

  PMID 36262316 · PMC9574418 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Immature (day 7) CASK KO induced neurons show increased dendritic complexity/neurite overgrowth and upregulated gene networks for cell adhesion, neurite outgrowth, and cytoskeletal organization.

  day mature bulk qrt-pcr gene

• Interaction between SNAI2 and MYOD enhances oncogenesis and suppresses differentiation in Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma.

  PMID 33420019 · PMC7794422 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SNAI2 is highly expressed in FN-RMS tumors and cell lines compared to normal tissue

  rms fn-rms fp-rms imr90 rna-seq western immunohistochemistry

• Single-cell transcriptome maps of myeloid blood cell lineages in Drosophila.

  PMID 32900993 · PMC7479620 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell RNA-seq of developing Drosophila lymph glands resolves heterogeneity of hemocytes and identifies major and sub cell types.

  drosophila lymph single single-cell bulk gene

• Global chromatin accessibility profiling analysis reveals a chronic activation state in aged muscle stem cells.

  PMID 36093058 · PMC9459695 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PFA-perfusion-based isolation preserves the true in vivo chromatin accessibility state, avoiding artifacts caused by tissue dissociation-induced activation

  quiescent satellite regenerating situ atac-seq rna-seq motif

• An atlas of the human liver diurnal transcriptome and its perturbation by hepatitis C virus infection.

  PMID 39209804 · PMC11362569 · Nature communications · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Human hepatocytes engrafted in liver chimeric mice display a large rhythmic transcriptome of ~1700 protein-coding orthologous genes, including transcription factors, chromatin modifiers, and metabolic enzymes.

  liver hcv-infected serum bulk chip-seq serum

• CTCF/cohesin-binding sites are susceptible to replication-associated DNA damage and genomic instability in cancer cells.

  PMID 41630911 · PMC12860730 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF and cohesin (RAD21) remain co-bound to DNA throughout interphase, including during the S (replication) phase, in HeLa cells

  hela tumors flow chromatin frap

• Alternative polyadenylation links RNA processing to iron metabolism in human erythropoiesis.

  PMID 41805127 · PMC12972907 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CPSF6 facilitates erythropoiesis; its depletion impairs heme synthesis and causes intracellular iron deficiency

  cd34+ cd34+-derived bone erythroid scrna-seq bulk long-read