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).

• Context dependent function of APPb enhancer identified using enhancer trap-containing BACs as transgenes in zebrafish.

  PMID 18832376 · PMC2577333 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel enhancer trap method retrofitting BACs with Tn10-based transposons enables nontargeted, functional mapping of noncontiguous cis-regulatory elements as zebrafish transgenes.

  zebrafish bac genomic transgenic field bac

• Pre-implantation embryo metabolism identified by PEMA reveals endogenous lactate insufficiency contributes to pre-implantation development arrest.

  PMID 42272466 · PMC13247451 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  PEMA, a computational tool that weights metabolic reactions using Ribo-seq data combined with RNA-seq-derived flux balance analysis, can characterize metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more precisely than existing methods like Compass.

  embryos pre-implantation ch3pn single-embryo immunofluorescence single-cell

• VISTA Enhancer Browser--a database of tissue-specific human enhancers.

  PMID 17130149 · PMC1716724 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Comparative genome analysis can identify candidate human enhancer elements whose tissue-specific in vivo activity can then be experimentally validated in transgenic mice.

  genomic genome transgenic comparative

• Paircomp, FamilyRelationsII and Cartwheel: tools for interspecific sequence comparison.

  PMID 15790396 · PMC1087472 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Paircomp, FamilyRelationsII, and Cartwheel together form an integrated system for comparing, viewing, and managing analyses of BAC-sized (~100 kb) genomic sequence pairs.

  otx sea elegans endo16 windowed reporter comparative

• Gli1-expressing stromal cells are highly reparative precursors of long-lived chondroprogenitors in the fetal murine limb.

  PMID 41253754 · PMC12627582 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Fetal Gli1+ cells (including cells outside the cartilage) are the precursors of postnatal long-lived chondroprogenitors and give rise to most growth-plate chondrocytes juvenile/adult.

  fetal left-cart-p21moe growth gli1creer single-nuclei bulk cre-based

• Tbx5 drives Aldh1a2 expression to regulate a RA-Hedgehog-Wnt gene regulatory network coordinating cardiopulmonary development.

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tbx5 directly maintains Aldh1a2 expression in the foregut lateral plate mesoderm/pSHF via an evolutionarily conserved intronic enhancer.

  micro-dissected dissected e9.5 xenopus bulk rt-qpcr whole-mount

• Human-zebrafish non-coding conserved elements act in vivo to regulate transcription.

  PMID 16179648 · PMC1236720 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Deeply conserved human-zebrafish non-coding elements are enriched for in vivo cis-acting transcriptional regulatory activity.

  ncbi genes zebrafish comparative annotation gfp

• The GATA factor ELT-3 specifies endoderm in Caenorhabditis angaria in an ancestral gene network.

  PMID 36196618 · PMC9720673 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Can-elt-3 (and orthologues in C. portoensis and C. monodelphis) is expressed in the early E lineage prior to elt-2 orthologue expression

  angaria elegans portoensis gata rnai single-molecule smifish

• Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers.

  PMID 19741700 · PMC2923221 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Meta-analysis of ~1200 top GWAS SNPs found that in 40% of cases (472/1170) no known exons overlap the linked SNP or its haplotype block, implying noncoding variation causally contributes to many traits.

  genome patients embryos ret gwas targeted transgenic

• Reactivation of a developmentally silenced embryonic globin gene.

  PMID 34290235 · PMC8295333 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In embryonic (primitive) erythroid cells, the ζ-gene lies within a ~65 kb sub-TAD of open, acetylated chromatin and physically interacts with the α-globin super-enhancer.

  primitive embryos ζ-venus atac-seq dnasei chip-seq

• Hippo signaling differentially regulates distal progenitor subpopulations and their transitional states to construct the mammalian lungs.

  PMID 41932885 · PMC13219436 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A fraction (15-50%) of the distal SOX9+ tip progenitor subdomain is sufficient to direct lung outgrowth through branch bifurcation, providing a mechanism for lung size control

  lung whole-mount immunofluorescence single-cell

• Sox8 remodels the cranial ectoderm to generate the ear.

  PMID 35867760 · PMC9282420 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sox8 sits at the top of a core transcriptional circuit (Sox8, Pax2, Lmx1a, Zbtb16) that determines otic identity

  chick bulk single-cell chipseq

• Functional analysis of human hematopoietic stem cell gene expression using zebrafish.

  PMID 16089502 · PMC1166352 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  277 unique transcripts are differentially expressed between Rho lo and Rho hi HSC-enriched/depleted populations, conserved across both umbilical cord blood and bone marrow

  umbilical ucb zebrafish microarray fluorescence-activated quantitative

• Large-scale discovery and validation of functional elements in the human genome.

  PMID 15774039 · PMC1088940 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-wide tiling microarray hybridization reveals large, diverse sets of transcripts, many of which lack existing gene annotations

  liver genome yeast lines tiling computational dnase

• Application of ecotoxicogenomics for studying endocrine disruption in vertebrates and invertebrates.

  PMID 16818254 · PMC1874166 · Environmental health perspectives · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Estrogen-responsive genes in mouse uterus are induced in a dose-dependent, ER-α-dependent manner, as shown by loss of induction in ER-α knockout mice.

  reproductive american xenopus fundulus cdna receptor developmental

• Comparative genomics reveals functional transcriptional control sequences in the Prop1 gene.

  PMID 17557180 · PMC1998882 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A BAC transgene containing Prop1 completely rescues the Prop1 mutant (dwarf) phenotype, showing all necessary regulatory elements lie within the BAC

  pig lemur cv-1 b-prop1 bac comparative transient

• Mice and more.

  PMID 14519193 · PMC328447 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A multispecies weighted conservation score, which accounts for each species' divergence rate, can identify conserved non-coding sequences (multispecies conserved sequences, MCSs) likely to be biologically significant

  cftr ciona embryonic chromosome comparative genome bac-based

• Genomics--from Neanderthals to high-throughput sequencing.

  PMID 16934106 · PMC1779599 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Next-generation sequencing platforms (GS20/454 and Solexa) can deliver the throughput and cost reductions needed for population-scale and medical resequencing.

  bacterial ion-channel drosophila arrays next-generation pooled multiplex

• A cross-species approach to identify transcriptional regulators exemplified for Dnajc22 and Hnf4a.

  PMID 28642491 · PMC5481429 · Scientific reports · 2017 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Hnf4a is a major transcriptional regulator of Dnajc22.

  mus tissues liver-specific kidney bulk microarray chip-seq

• Mod(mdg4) variants repress telomeric retrotransposon HeT-A by blocking subtelomeric enhancers.

  PMID 36373634 · PMC9723646 · Nucleic acids research · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Specific splice variants of Mod(mdg4) repress HeT-A by blocking subtelomeric enhancers in ovarian somatic cells (OSCs)

  drosophila ovarian osc melanogaster chip-seq sirna western