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).

• Interactive analysis of single-cell trajectories in 3D space with Cell Journey.

  PMID 41773942 · PMC13042281 · GigaScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  Cell Journey is an interactive platform for computing and visualizing RNA velocity-based single-cell trajectories in 3D space.

  pancreatic bone hematopoietic scrna-seq cite-seq clonal

• 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

• Single-Cell Mitochondrial Lineage Tracing Decodes Fate Decision and Spatial Clonal Architecture in Human Hematopoietic Organoids.

  PMID 41560697 · PMC13042525 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mitochondrial somatic mutations from scRNA-seq can be repurposed as endogenous genetic barcodes for lineage tracing in hPSC-derived organoids.

  hpsc hemo larry-barcoded pdgfrα+ scrna-seq mitochondrial cospar

• Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice.

  PMID 40629142 · PMC12321585 · Nature neuroscience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Ganglionic eminence (ventral) progenitors maintain stable differentiation competence throughout neurogenesis, generating a consistent set of postmitotic precursor states at all stages, unlike dorsal cortical progenitors whose differentiation competence changes gradually.

  dlx5 progenitors sections cortical scrna-seq trackerseq flashtag

• Interpretable trajectory inference with single-cell linear adaptive negative-binomial expression (scLANE) testing.

  PMID 41533563 · PMC12802912 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scLANE models gene expression as a piecewise negative-binomial GLM using truncated power basis (hinge) functions with adaptively chosen knots, yielding directly interpretable multiplicative effect sizes for trajectory differential expression

  zebrafish simulated diverse trajectory simulation

• Deconvolution of the hematopoietic stem cell microenvironment reveals a high degree of specialization and conservation.

  PMID 35494238 · PMC9046238 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Integration of three scRNA-seq datasets using a custom bootstrapping-based clustering pipeline robustly identifies 14 endothelial subclusters and 11 mesenchymal (stage-specific) subclusters in mouse bone marrow.

  bone independent scrna-seq gene singler

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Base barrier cells provide compartmentalization of choroid plexus, brain and CSF.

  PMID 41680326 · PMC12971494 · Nature neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct fibroblast population, ChP base barrier cells (BBCs, formerly type II fibroblasts), exists at the base of the choroid plexus, separate from ChP stromal (type I) fibroblasts

  lateral brain mesp1-cre chp scrna-seq multiplex immunofluorescence

• Distinct radial glia subtypes regulate midbrain dopaminergic neuron development.

  PMID 41699318 · PMC13061605 · Nature neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Rgl1 is the progenitor of the mesDA neuronal lineage

  embryonic developing wa09 bulk scrna-seq ligand-receptor

• A cell atlas of multiple liver organoids and the fetal liver based on scRNA-seq.

  PMID 41736863 · PMC12927097 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A unified liver organoid cell atlas of 217,025 high-quality cells was constructed by integrating scRNA-seq data from 15 organoid samples across 9 studies with human fetal liver data (5-19 weeks gestation)

  liver fetal endoderm-derived mesoderm-derived scrna-seq pseudotime pearson

• A single-cell compendium of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies disease-associated immune cell populations.

  PMID 39744938 · PMC11684814 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Integration of public and newly generated scRNA-seq datasets yields a compendium of 139 subjects (193 samples, 403,973 immune cells) spanning CSF and blood across healthy controls and multiple neurologic diseases.

  csf scrna-seq trajectory flow

• Ectopic expression of BEX genes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  PMID 40811813 · PMC12830129 · Blood advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Bex1 (and to a lesser extent Bex4) is ectopically expressed in Pten-deficient mouse T-ALL blasts

  thymocytes thymocyte t-all normal scrna-seq rt-qpcr bulk

• Neural network-assisted RNA velocity imputation for empowering transcript dynamics-based analyses.

  PMID 41736867 · PMC12927306 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NARVI, a deep neural network trained on expression-velocity relationships of passed genes, can impute RNA velocity for dropped genes that conventional tools (e.g., scVelo, UniTVelo) fail to calculate

  hematopoietic lung erythroid bone scrna-seq cross-validation

• Clonal dynamics shaped by diverse drug-tolerant persister states in melanoma resistance.

  PMID 41776501 · PMC13162433 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MeRLin, a single-vector high-complexity lineage tracing platform integrating cellular barcoding, scRNA-seq, RNA-FISH, and computational analysis, was developed to track clonal and transcriptional dynamics in a melanoma PDX model

  wm4237-1 nsg bulk scrna-seq clonal

• Cell type-specific network analysis in Diversity Outbred mice identifies genes potentially responsible for human bone mineral density GWAS associations.

  PMID 41811178 · PMC12978698 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell type-specific Bayesian and co-expression networks generated from BMSC-OB scRNA-seq data in Diversity Outbred mice can prioritize and contextualize genes underlying human BMD GWAS associations

  bmsc-ob genes mesenchymal gtex scrna-seq cellect iterativewgcna