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).

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• 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

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Identifying clinically relevant cell state interactions in the tumor microenvironment of IDH-mutant gliomas using CSI-TME.

  PMID 41807578 · PMC13230996 · Molecular systems biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CSI-TME is a computational pipeline that deconvolves bulk tumor RNA-seq into cell-type-specific expression (via CODEFACS), infers transcriptional states per cell type via ICA, and identifies IC pairs from two cell types whose joint activity is associated with survival via Cox regression

  idh-mutant tcga cgga deconvolved scrna-seq bulk independent

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• transFusion: a novel comprehensive platform for integration analysis of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41645434 · PMC12930851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  transFusion is a comprehensive, web-based platform for integrated analysis of scRNA-seq and 10x Visium spatial transcriptomics data requiring no parameter configuration

  breast scrna-seq 10x cellphonedb

• DLX2 marks an immunosuppressive dendritic-cell program that reshapes cytotoxic immunity and marks a tolerogenic microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41761000 · PMC13043845 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuroactive ligand–receptor signaling is among the most significantly upregulated pathways in LUAD relative to normal lung tissue.

  tcga-luad tcga luad dendritic-cell bulk survival pan-cancer

• 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

• Unveiling critical signaling pathways in the murine salivary gland and the role of midkine.

  PMID 41732276 · PMC12925232 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CellChat analysis of scRNA-seq data from E12, E14, and E16 murine SMG reveals distinct and evolving ligand-receptor signaling networks across developmental stages

  submandibular smg e13.5 single immunofluorescence organ

• Multi-omic identification of perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in human polyneuropathies.

  PMID 40849297 · PMC12375038 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multi-omic profiling (snRNA-seq + spatial transcriptomics) of human sural nerves identifies novel cell type markers (MLIP in mySC; GRIK3, PRIMA1 in nmSC; CXCL14 in periC) not previously described in rodent or human literature

  sural peripheral snrna-seq nerve single-nucleus subcellular situ

• A muscle-centered hierarchical breakdown underlies flight loss during silkworm domestication.

  PMID 41716997 · PMC12915254 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Flight loss in B. mori results from a muscle-centered collapse of a three-tiered hierarchical genetic module comprising mitochondrial energy production (COX3/ND1), wing vein patterning (Dally/CtBP), and flight muscle specification (Yki)

  wing wings flight mandarina single-cell spatial velocity

• 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

• Vγ1 γδ T cells steer airway macrophages toward a profibrotic response in an autochthonous lung cancer mouse model.

  PMID 41779856 · PMC12959402 · Science advances · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Lung tumors drive expansion of both CD27+ and CD27- pulmonary γδ T cells, which acquire distinct spatial and phenotypic changes in the tumor microenvironment

  spc-cre+ microdissected sorted merged flow confocal single-cell

• 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

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• Multi-omics analyses identify mannose phosphate isomerase-centered hypoxia-induced angiogenesis signature in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41204349 · PMC12595641 · Journal of translational medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Twelve HIA-related genes were identified that are transcriptionally activated by HIF1A/HIF2A and functionally implicated in angiogenesis in CRC

  hct116 crc tumor chip-seq bulk single

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• 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.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• Large-scale integration of single-cell transcriptomic data captures transitional progenitor states in mouse skeletal muscle regeneration.

  PMID 34773081 · PMC8589952 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Large-scale integration of 111 sc/snRNAseq datasets captures rare, transitional myogenic progenitor states (commitment and fusion) that are poorly represented in individual datasets.

  skeletal merged myogenic muscle scrnaseq batch-correction differential