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).

• Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit.

  PMID 41501466 · PMC12820784 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammation-associated fibroblasts (IAFs), induced by proinflammatory FCN1+IL1B+ macrophages, produce profibrotic IL-11 and drive fibrosis in IBD

  intestinal colon pdgfra+ colonic scrna-seq xenium masson's

• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• Atypical pericapillary Ly6G⁺Nur77⁺ macrophages initiate type-2 immune responses to allergens in the mouse lung.

  PMID 41571657 · PMC12929616 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cysteine protease activity in HDM (and not LPS/TLR4 signaling) is the primary driver of Th2 allergic airway responses

  lung mediastinal par2 hematopoietic flow adoptive competitive

• Intestinal macrophages modulate synucleinopathy along the gut-brain axis.

  PMID 41606336 · PMC12960212 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ME-Macs engulf misfolded, aggregated αS and modulate αS pathology and neurodegeneration in PD mouse models

  3kl sorted me-macs snca immunohistochemistry digital mass

• Integrative single-cell analysis uncovers distinct tumour microenvironment ecotypes and immune evasion across skin cancers.

  PMID 41636115 · PMC12869349 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant NARS2+NDUFC2+ melanoma cell subpopulation with reduced MHC-I expression is enriched in advanced-stage tumours and associated with worse survival and immunotherapy response.

  skin prognosis melanoma macrophage single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis.

  PMID 41639447 · PMC12935554 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) induces increased innervation and functional/transcriptional engagement of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs)

  kras-g12d tumour-bearing vagal npy2r-ires-cre whole-mount aav neurite

• Novel fatty acid metabolism-related molecular subtyping and prognostic signature for breast cancer.

  PMID 41674979 · PMC12885896 · Translational cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A FAM-related gene prognostic model (FAMGM) built using CoxBoost and random survival forest was identified as the optimal model among 101 machine learning combinations, based on highest average C-index across TCGA-BRCA and GSE96058 cohorts

  tcga-brca gse96058 brca breast bulk single-cell spatial

• 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

• Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation.

  PMID 41851525 · PMC13132723 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglia repopulate rapidly and exclusively cell-autonomously from surviving microglia after CSF-1R inhibitor (BLZ945) depletion.

  brain cerebral cd11b+cd45int-hi leptomeninges flow confocal single-cell

• 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

• Dynamic changes of the immune microenvironment in ovarian cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

  PMID 41872134 · PMC13039919 · Cell death discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Prostaglandin-mediated immunosuppressive microenvironment formation is a critical contributor to chemotherapy resistance following cisplatin treatment

  high-grade hgsoc bone bmdms scrna-seq cell-cell tensor

• Tree shrew immune cell atlas identifies NR1H3⁺ tissue macrophages with conserved anti-inflammatory function.

  PMID 41957356 · PMC13223331 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A single-cell/single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas across 12 tree shrew tissues identifies 39 distinct immune and non-immune cell types, providing a reference resource for tree shrew immunology

  tree single-cell scrna-seq cross-species functional

• pmid-42010620

  PMID 42010620 · PMC13227897 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Morphine-dependent macaques show increased CD4+ TCM and Treg cell proportions and decreased CD8+ TEM cell proportions in CSF at the pre-infection timepoint compared to saline controls

  csf scrna-seq necropsy single-cell flow cell-cell

• pmid-42013848

  PMID 42013848 · PMC13198233 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus meta-program (MP) expression patterns stratify LUAD patients with rare and reference oncogenic mutations into ICI-MP-H and ICI-MP-L subgroups reflecting differential predicted ICI benefit

  luad matched tcga epithelial single-cell multiplex bulk

• scSurv: a deep generative model for single-cell survival analysis.

  PMID 41429574 · PMC12797213 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scSurv combines a Cox proportional hazards model with a deep generative model (VAE) of single-cell transcriptomes to estimate individual cellular contributions to clinical outcomes

  simulated tcga melanoma renal scrna-seq bulk single-cell

• Thermogenic adipocytes promote HDL turnover and reverse cholesterol transport.

  PMID 28422089 · PMC5399294 · Nature communications · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pharmacological (CL316,243) activation of thermogenic adipocytes increases HDL-cholesterol and reduces atherosclerosis in E3L.CETP mice, with HDL-cholesterol an independent predictor of atherosclerosis

  c57bl hdl plasma peritoneal fplc lipidomics cholesterol

• Microglia maintain structural integrity during fetal brain morphogenesis.

  PMID 38309258 · PMC10869139 · Cell · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic ATM-like microglia accumulate at two fetal cortical boundaries, the cortico-striato-amygdalar boundary (CSA) and cortico-septal boundary (CSB), resembling post-natal axon-tract-associated microglia (ATM)

  embryonic cx3cr1 fetal embryos single-cell immunolabeling phrodo

• Brown fat activation reduces hypercholesterolaemia and protects from atherosclerosis development.

  PMID 25754609 · PMC4366535 · Nature communications · 2015 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  β3-AR agonist-mediated BAT activation reduces plasma triglycerides and cholesterol and protects against atherosclerosis development in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP mice.

  e3l.cetp interscapular liver aortic indirect histology plasma

• Use of functional genomics to understand influenza-host interactions.

  PMID 17765704 · PMC7112328 · Advances in virus research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Functional genomics/microarray analysis provides a global view of host response to influenza infection that reveals virus-host interaction mechanisms not accessible by conventional techniques

  hela a549 lung texas cdna microarray infection

• Disruption of tRNA threonylation triggers RIG-I mediated anti-tumour immune response.

  PMID 41735308 · PMC13043769 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OSGEP is the catalytic subunit of the KEOPS complex responsible for t6A modification at position 37 of cytoplasmic tRNAs, and its loss causes the highest protein aggregation among 45 screened tRNA-modifying enzymes in melanoma cells

  mm117 b16f10 b16f10-derived c57bl esirna shrna rna-seq