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).

• Autophagy gene variant IRGM -261T contributes to protection from tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis but not by M. africanum strains.

  PMID 19750224 · PMC2735778 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The IRGM −261TT genotype is negatively associated with (protective against) pulmonary TB caused by M. tuberculosis

  pulmonary tuberculosis reporter genotyped case-control gene spoligotyping

• Long-range regulation is a major driving force in maintaining genome integrity.

  PMID 19682388 · PMC2741452 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Long-range transcriptional regulation is a major driving force in maintaining genome integrity by constraining where chromosomal breakpoints can become fixed.

  opossum genome comparative identification statistical

• Single-cell transcriptomics of human embryos identifies multiple sympathoblast lineages with potential implications for neuroblastoma origin.

  PMID 33833454 · PMC7610777 · Nature genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In human embryos, intra-adrenal sympathoblasts are directly derived from nerve-associated Schwann cell precursors (SCPs), similarly to chromaffin cells

  embryo sympathoadrenal embryonic adrenal scrna-seq velocity immunohistochemistry

• EpCAM supports exit from pluripotency of embryonic stem cells via Eomes.

  PMID 41963283 · PMC13076738 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EpCAM supports exit from pluripotency of mESCs and is required for cardiomyocyte formation in embryoid bodies

  e14tg2α epcam embryos mesc flow contraction qrt-pcr

• Env-antibody coevolution identifies B cell priming as the principal bottleneck to HIV V2 apex broadly neutralizing antibody development.

  PMID 41686912 · PMC13015429 · Science immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Efficiency of B cell priming, not complexity of Env-guided affinity maturation, is the primary obstacle to V2 apex bNAb elicitation in SHIV-infected macaques.

  shiv-infected plasma igg+ rhesus plasma single-genome next-generation

• Directing stem cell differentiation by chromatin state approximation.

  PMID 41734818 · PMC12956330 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Greedy selection of culture conditions by chromatin (ATAC-seq) distance to target is a viable optimisation strategy for differentiation protocols

  cd34+ cd34+-derived erythroid bone atac-seq flow rt-qpcr

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• A latent activated olfactory stem cell state revealed by single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling.

  PMID 41512864 · PMC12903091 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  HBC-derived regeneration proceeds via three distinct lineages (rHBC, Sus, mOSN) marked by sequential, lineage-specific transcription factor (TF) expression cascades.

  lineage-traced hbcs* icam1+ scrna-seq trajectory-based seurat

• The transcription factor HHEX maintains glucocorticoid levels and protects adrenals from androgen-induced lipid depletion.

  PMID 41519914 · PMC12891536 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HHEX is the most enriched transcription factor in glucocorticoid-producing zona fasciculata (zF) cells, conserved across mouse, rat, and human adrenal

  sf1-cre-high adrenocortical scrna-seq rnascope immunohistochemistry

• Sequential RNA polymerase II activation drives human hematopoiesis.

  PMID 41520338 · PMC13067999 · Cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  sciCUT&Tag2in1 enables simultaneous single-cell combinatorial-indexing profiling of Pol II occupancy (Ser5/Ser2-phospho CTD) together with histone modifications (H3K4me1-2-3 or H3K27me3) in up to 50,000 cells per experiment

  g-csf-mobilized cd34+ 10-donor lineage-depleted scicut&tag2in1 individual souporcell

• Single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies a novel tenogenic heterologous differentiation in endometrial carcinosarcomas: implications for diagnosis and tumor classification.

  PMID 41537454 · PMC12805614 · The Journal of pathology · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq identifies a novel tenogenic heterologous differentiation program (SCX, MKX, TNMD) in an endometrial carcinosarcoma

  ffpe sections tumor cs4 single-nucleus immunohistochemistry fluorescence

• Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate.

  PMID 41565813 · PMC12999477 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  ZNF219, a previously uncharacterized transcription factor, represses neural differentiation in human cortical radial glia

  cortical rhesus single-cell scrna-seq immunocytochemistry

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• Endothelial stem cells of the retinal vasculature reside in the optic nerve.

  PMID 41577708 · PMC12830651 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD157+CD201+ endothelial stem cells (VESCs) reside predominantly in the optic nerve and supply endothelial cells to the retina

  cd45negcd31+ sorted retina procr[cd201]-creert2 flow colony-forming flat-mount

• The RNA-binding protein SRSF3 controls epicardial formation by regulating splicing and proliferation.

  PMID 41601313 · PMC13006530 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SRSF3 is highly expressed in the proepicardial organ and early epicardium, declining after E11.5 and remaining low postnatally

  embryo heart e11.5 proepicardium immunofluorescence qrt-pcr conditional

• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• Notch3 regulates pericyte phenotypic plasticity in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41618002 · PMC12960917 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Murine tumor pericytes originate from normal tissue-resident pericytes that proliferate inside tumors

  aom crc pdgfrβ-creert2 notch3-creert2 scrna-seq facs lineage

• FOXA1 mutations co-opt nascent transcription factor networks in partnership with androgen receptor to enhance prostate tumorigenicity.

  PMID 41621066 · PMC13050545 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXA1 mutations in a 874-tumor cohort cluster into missense, in-frame indel, and truncation subgroups, with indels concentrated at residues M253/E255

  prostate targeted single-nucleus scatac-seq

• Nanog mediated control of TBX3-GATA6 circuitry in primitive endoderm differentiation of mESCs.

  PMID 41629627 · PMC12979688 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NANOG partners with TBX3 and the PRC2 complex to maintain ESC identity by silencing PrE genes through distal enhancers

  rcnβh escs qpcr rna-seq chip-seq

• Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells.

  PMID 41634202 · PMC13171621 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TCs are radiosensitive haematopoietic cells derived from an IL7R+ progenitor, enriched in fetal liver

  cd45.1 il7r il7r-cre cx3cr1-cre bone fetal scrna-seq