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).

• Predicting Bone Metastasis Using Gene Expression-Based Machine Learning Models.

  PMID 34858485 · PMC8631472 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A DNN model built on 34 top-ranked hub genes achieves the highest prediction accuracy (AUC 92.11%) for distinguishing primary from bone-metastasized tumors

  breast degs geo tcga microarray protein-protein machine

• Application of Machine Learning in Predicting Hepatic Metastasis or Primary Site in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

  PMID 37887568 · PMC10605255 · Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Multi-gene random forest models classify primary tumor vs. liver metastasis samples with 100% accuracy in training/test cohorts and >90% accuracy in an independent validation cohort

  pancreatic rna-seq liver tumor bulk machine multi-label

• 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

• Tight junction-high and CDH17-positive cell population is the source of colorectal cancer liver metastases.

  PMID 41484106 · PMC12881549 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss/inhibition of IKKα unexpectedly promotes, rather than suppresses, CRC liver metastasis in patient-derived organoid (PDO) xenograft models.

  pdo5 pdo5-derived crc dld1 intrasplenic immunohistochemistry kaplan-meier

• Targeting the Lipid Metabolism Proteins FASN and GPAM in Alveolar Type II Cells Decreases Lung Metastasis.

  PMID 41778850 · PMC7619144 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  AT2 cells and surfactant lipids (e.g., PC, PE, PI, PG) are enriched in the vicinity of breast cancer lung metastases in both patients and mice

  postmortem lungs lung at2 immunohistochemistry maldi-msi longitudinal

• Ionizing Radiation Enhances Prognostically Significant Cellular Immunity Programs in the Brain Metastasis Microenvironment.

  PMID 41817317 · PMC13223553 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  High-grade histopathologic TIL infiltration is associated with significantly prolonged overall survival in breast and lung cancer BM.

  breast lung histopathologic sequencing tcr

• CEBPB-Regulated Gastric Cell Plasticity Promotes Liver Metastasis of Gastric Cancer.

  PMID 41836678 · PMC12981248 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GC cells undergoing liver metastasis transcriptionally reprogram into a high-plasticity cell state

  tumor lines nci-n87 balb single-cell epigenomics transwell

• Preponderance of the oncogenic V599E and V599K mutations in B-raf kinase domain is enhanced in melanoma cutaneous/subcutaneous metastases.

  PMID 15935100 · PMC1164406 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  B-raf exon 15 somatic mutations occur in 24/60 (40%) of cutaneous/subcutaneous melanoma metastases, similar to the frequency in primary melanomas

  paraffin-embedded cloned same predicted pcr cloning blastx

• Microsatellite instability analysis in hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer using the Bethesda consensus panel of microsatellite markers in the absence of proband normal tissue.

  PMID 16426447 · PMC1373649 · BMC medical genetics · 2006 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  MSI status can be determined in the absence of proband non-tumor tissue by comparing tumor alleles to alleles carried by the proband's progenitors

  proband's peripheral hmsh2 microsatellite direct targeted

• The Aging Microenvironment Is a Determinant of Immune Exclusion and Metastatic Fate in Pancreatic Cancer.

  PMID 41202211 · PMC12768431 · Cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Organismal aging accelerates PDAC progression and metastatic burden in an age-relevant syngeneic orthotopic mouse model

  kpc4662 orthotopic pdac pancreatic orthotopic heterochronic ultrasound

• Multi-omics evaluation of cell lines as models for metastatic prostate cancer.

  PMID 41876625 · PMC13171877 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Substantial genomic differences exist between metastatic prostate cancer patient samples and prostate cancer cell lines, including hotspot mutations largely absent from cell lines.

  prostate metastatic su2c tcga somatic copy bulk

• A Single-Cell Atlas of Pan-Cancer Liver Metastasis Reveals Dynamic Cellular Programs Driving Metastatic Progression and Immune Modulation.

  PMID 41884334 · PMC13010057 · Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of liver metastasis was constructed from 100 scRNA-seq samples (75 individuals, 16 studies), profiling 460,337 cells into 121 distinct cellular subtypes.

  epithelial liver-related scrna-seq copy cellular

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals tumor microenvironment heterogeneity in primary and lymph node-metastatic small cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41916294 · PMC13130650 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Three malignant subclusters (C5, C6, C9) are enriched in LNM tumors and display distinct metabolic and angiogenic programs alongside spatial immune exclusion

  pt-lnm spatial single-cell multi-organ single-cell multiplex h&e

• Dissecting tumor heterogeneity in colorectal cancer: uncovering the role of BCL2L1(+) cells through single-cell analysis.

  PMID 41958675 · PMC13056825 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq identifies five CRC tumor cell subtypes, with the C4 BCL2L1+ subtype predominantly enriched in liver metastases and showing enhanced proliferation, metabolic reprogramming, and anti-apoptotic activity

  crc epcs malignant tcga scrna-seq infercnv cytotrace

• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Carcinoma cell profiles are distinct for each patient, while diverse microenvironmental (nonmalignant) subsets are shared across different patients.

  tumour single differentially seurat-identified single-cell differential gene

• Mitotic checkpoint protein hsMAD2 as a marker predicting liver metastasis of human gastric cancers.

  PMID 11572763 · PMC5926839 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 2001 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  No mutations were found in the coding sequence of the hsMAD2 gene in 32 primary gastric cancers

  gastric cancer formalin-fixed near-diploid pcr semi-quantitative immunohistochemistry

• A Plastic EMP1+ to LGR5+ Cell State Conversion as a Bypass to KRASG12D Pharmacologic Inhibition in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41128661 · PMC12877754 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RMC-9945 exerts durable antitumor activity in early-stage liver metastasis but has diminished therapeutic effect in advanced metastatic disease

  aktp colorectal drug single-cell rnascope

• The Ly6g(high) Neutrophil Subset Dictates Breast Cancer Lung Metastasis via CD8(+) T Cell Death.

  PMID 41625479 · PMC12857760 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neutrophils in the lung metastatic niche comprise two functionally distinct subsets, Ly6g^high and Ly6g^low, based on Ly6g expression level

  lung cramp cd8+ neutrophils single-cell flow genetic

• 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

• Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals DNMT1(+) epithelial cells promote lymphatic metastasis via CXCL17-mediated TAM infiltration.

  PMID 41845371 · PMC13107741 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DNMT1+ epithelial cells, characterized by high epithelial-mesenchymal transition potential, show a propensity for lymph node metastasis in bladder cancer

  bladder scrna-seq um-uc-3 genomic single-cell cell-cell western