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).

• Patient-Derived Meningioma Organoids: A Reliable Model for Studying Human Tumor Pathophysiology.

  PMID 39941893 · PMC11817449 · Cancers · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A standardized, reproducible protocol can establish meningioma organoids (MEN-Os) from patient-resected tumor tissue without mechanical/enzymatic dissociation, using serum-free medium lacking growth factors or exogenous ECM.

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• 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

• Identification and validation of prognostic genes associated with M2 macrophage and heme metabolism in lung adenocarcinoma through bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analysis.

  PMID 41787185 · PMC13076703 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EPB41, ACP5, PPOX, RBM38, and TRIM58 were identified as prognostic genes for LUAD

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• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• Reciprocal regulation of fibroblast-macrophage equilibrium governs skin integrity.

  PMID 41760904 · PMC13043295 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dpt+ fibroblasts are required to maintain skin macrophage populations in vivo; their depletion reduces CD64+ and CD11c+ macrophages

  facs-sorted skin dpt+ scrna-seq flow cellchat

• Divergent macrophage-regulated T cell states determine response to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine in high-risk bladder cancer.

  PMID 42081487 · PMC13262731 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BCG responders show an increase in Th17-like Th1 CD4+ T cells with greater proinflammatory cytokine expression

  bladder pbmcs cd4+ separate scrna-seq trajectory flow

• Ferroptotic tumor cells reprogram tumor-associated macrophage antigen presentation to enhance the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade.

  PMID 42061406 · PMC13198243 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inducing tumor-cell ferroptosis enhances anti-tumor immunity by potentiating MHC-II-dependent antigen presentation in tumor-infiltrating macrophages

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• ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639695 · PMC12958617 · BMC medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSC proportion is elevated in lymph node metastatic tumor tissue (BRCA_LNMT) compared to primary tumor (BRCA_PT)

  4t1 brca tcga-brca top single-cell spatial bulk

• Identification and validation of prognostic genes related to glycolysis and M2 macrophage in hepatocellular carcinoma: an integrated analysis of bulk RNA sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 41766871 · PMC12935947 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  52 candidate genes were identified at the intersection of glycolysis-related genes (GRGs), M2 macrophage-related genes (MRGs), and HCC-vs-control DEGs (DEGs2).

  tcga-lihc gse149614 key hcc bulk immune cox

• Purinergic adipocyte-macrophage crosstalk promotes degeneration of thermogenic brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41261284 · PMC12715258 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Imbalanced sympathetic/thermogenic activation (via UCP1 deficiency or pharmacological futile thermogenesis) causes BAT inflammation, fibrosis and degeneration

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• VISTA drives pancreatic tumor progression through modulation of the tumor-associated macrophage polarity.

  PMID 41776161 · PMC13194722 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VISTA deficiency significantly impairs PDAC tumor growth and prolongs survival in murine orthotopic models

  pan02 cd45+ tumor mice orthotopic pharmacological flow

• Comprehensive analysis for the role of macrophage-driven genes in abdominal aortic aneurysm.

  PMID 41815567 · PMC12973086 · Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SMU1 is identified as a novel macrophage-related gene associated with AAA development, serving as a potential diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target

  aaa macrophage-related merged gwas single-cell bulk rt-qpcr

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, validating its use as a proxy for translational efficiency at the elongation level.

  unstimulated cd4+ kidney liver bulk single-cell

• 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

• AJUBA: The Master Regulator Bridging EMT and Immune Evasion in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41814682 · PMC13140425 · Mediators of inflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AJUBA is markedly upregulated in CRC across multiple transcriptomic cohorts and is enriched in epithelial cells with activated EMT features

  tcga-crc crc paired hct116 bulk single-cell spatial

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• Identification of markers correlating with mitochondrial function in myocardial infarction by bioinformatics.

  PMID 39775580 · PMC11684664 · PloS one · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MitoDEGs in MI are mainly involved in mitochondrial function and ATP synthesis pathways

  left mus combined heart microarray weighted bulk

• PBRM1 Deficiency Reshapes an Immune Suppressive Microenvironment Through Epigenetic Tuning of PBRM1-KDM5C-IL6 Axis in ccRCC.

  PMID 41514194 · PMC13042695 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PBRM1 deficiency increases infiltration of immunosuppressive M2 tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and creates an immune-excluded tumor microenvironment

  vhl kidney pbrm1 immunodeficient scrna-seq multiplex crispr-cas9

• Opioid-induced transcriptional reprogramming of cerebrospinal fluid immune cells is associated with neuroinflammatory signaling in antiretroviral treated SIV-infected rhesus macaques.

  PMID 42010620 · PMC13227897 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 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

• 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