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).

• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

  dorsolateral dlpfc nanostring spatial cell-type multi-platform

• Ultra-precision deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics decodes immune heterogeneity and fate-defining programs in tissues.

  PMID 41862467 · PMC13168514 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  UCASpatial is a novel deconvolution algorithm that uses Shannon entropy-based gene weighting combined with weighted non-negative least squares to estimate cell-type composition from spatial transcriptomics data

  simulated colorectal hippocampus ear simulated runtime spatial

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

  intestine triple-negative dorsolateral dlpfc semi-synthetic spatial single-cell

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• Benchmarking tools for deciphering cellular crosstalk in spatially-resolved transcriptomics.

  PMID 41952215 · PMC13174004 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  No prior systematic, quantitative benchmark exists for CCI inference methods specifically developed for spatial transcriptomics across multiple platforms

  synthetic real simulated simulation spot-purity real-data

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals tumor microenvironment heterogeneity in primary and lymph node-metastatic small cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41916294 · PMC13130650 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Three malignant subclusters (C5, C6, C9) are enriched in LNM tumors and display distinct metabolic and angiogenic programs alongside spatial immune exclusion

  pt-lnm spatial single-cell multi-organ single-cell multiplex h&e

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals the molecular signatures of prodromal and advanced α-synucleinopathy.

  PMID 41736854 · PMC12927100 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Early-stage (prodromal) aSyn pathology in M83+/+ mouse brainstem is associated with upregulation of ATP/energy metabolism pathways (glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid metabolism)

  sagittal st-derived spatial immunofluorescence cell-cell

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Targeting the Lipid Metabolism Proteins FASN and GPAM in Alveolar Type II Cells Decreases Lung Metastasis.

  PMID 41778850 · PMC7619144 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  AT2 cells and surfactant lipids (e.g., PC, PE, PI, PG) are enriched in the vicinity of breast cancer lung metastases in both patients and mice

  postmortem lungs lung at2 immunohistochemistry maldi-msi longitudinal

• FineST: contrastive learning integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics for nuclei-resolved ligand-receptor analysis.

  PMID 41839892 · PMC13201544 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FineST, a bimodal contrastive learning model integrating histology (Virchow2 ViT features) and spatial gene expression, enables nuclei-resolved high-resolution RNA imputation.

  colorectal crc breast he-stained spatial type ccc

• Integrated Single Cell Spatial Analysis Reveals Dysregulated Basal Progenitor Cells in Ulcerative Colitis Pathogenesis: A Multi Omics Study.

  PMID 41542331 · PMC12802566 · Health science reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BPC differentiation is significantly altered in UC, driven by a FABP1-led functional gene matrix

  colorectal colon patients bulk single-cell spatial bulk

• 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

• huSA: a comprehensive database for multi-dimensional resolution of bulk, single cell and spatial transcription profiles in skin diseases.

  PMID 41719583 · PMC12923168 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  huSA is a comprehensive, publicly accessible database integrating bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, and spatial transcriptomics data across 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets

  skin scrna-seq scrna-seq transcription cell-cell

• A macaque's-eye view of human insertions and deletions: differences in mechanisms.

  PMID 17941704 · PMC1976337 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Insertion and deletion rates are differentially associated with replication- versus recombination-related genomic features, indicating the two mutation types are driven in part by distinct mechanisms

  chimpanzee non-overlapping 1-mb 100-kb comparative regression kruskal-wallis

• Advancing Prognosis Prediction and Immunotherapy Efficacy in Lung Adenocarcinoma Through Machine Learning: Novel Insights From Anoikis Regulator Patterns in Single-Cell Multiomics.

  PMID 41488744 · PMC12764181 · International journal of genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial and endothelial cells show the highest anoikis-enriched scores among LUAD TME cell types, with AT2-like Epi being the most anoikis-related epithelial subpopulation.

  luad pan-cancer tumor scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Decoding the Mechanisms of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cancer Stem Cells and Identifying Potential Therapeutic Strategies Based on Single-cell Omics.

  PMID 41771574 · PMC12951371 · Cancer genomics & proteomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells from HCC tumors resolve into six transcriptionally distinct subpopulations, including a progenitor-like CSC subset expressing EPCAM, SOX9, and SOX4

  malignant tumor csc six single-cell spatial copy

• Dissecting origin factors of lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer via multimodal omics.

  PMID 41975179 · PMC13250061 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial cells in mLNs and matched mLN+ primary tumors (mLN+PTs) show enhanced cancer stemness (higher CytoTRACE scores) compared to mLN-negative and normal samples.

  patient-matched mln epithelial tcga-luad scrna-seq spatial cytotrace

• IMIREG: a lineage-resolved regulon signature unveiling immune engagement archetypes and predicting immunotherapy response across diverse cancers.

  PMID 42092126 · PMC13234301 · NPJ precision oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  IMIREG, a 14-regulon transcriptional signature, robustly predicts clinical benefit from ICB across 50 immunotherapy cohorts (52 treatment arms) spanning 16 cancer types with mean AUROC = 0.71

  imvigor210 matched gtex healthy bulk scrna-seq pathway

• Decoding clone evolution in HER2 amplified breast cancer through single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of copy number variations.

  PMID 41840060 · PMC13125306 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  IDC exhibits significantly higher CNV burden than DCIS, supporting progressive genomic instability during tumor evolution

  her2-positive epithelial malignant tcga-brca single-cell spatial infercnv