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).

• Early days: genomics and human responses to infection.

  PMID 16679048 · PMC7108404 · Current opinion in microbiology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DNA microarray-based transcript profiling of primate/human responses to infection has begun to yield new insights into host-pathogen interactions but is limited by unresolved methodological challenges.

  peripheral liver gastric brain microarray

• Severe COVID-19 Shares a Common Neutrophil Activation Signature with Other Acute Inflammatory States.

  PMID 35269470 · PMC8909161 · Cells · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  COVID-19 and HLH share a transcriptional overlap of 239 unique common differentially expressed genes (DEGs), 237 of which are up-regulated

  patients pbmcs plasma derived bulk single-cell quantitative

• Gene signature discovery and systematic validation across diverse clinical cohorts for TB prognosis and response to treatment.

  PMID 37471455 · PMC10393163 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  A network-based meta-analysis of 27 discovery cohorts identified a common 45-gene signature specific to active TB disease across studies.

  blood aggregated 45-gene independent bulk network-based gene

• Representing and querying disease networks using graph databases.

  PMID 27462371 · PMC4960687 · BioData mining · 2016 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 77

  Graph databases are well suited for representing biological information because it is typically highly connected, semi-structured and unpredictable, unlike relational databases which require rigid schemas.

  uniprot proteins tissues asthma all-vs-all protein-protein metabolic

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

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

  Has reproduction

  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

• Species-Wide Phylogenomics of the Staphylococcus aureus Agr Operon Revealed Convergent Evolution of Frameshift Mutations.

  PMID 35044202 · PMC8768832 · Microbiology spectrum · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  AgrVATE, a novel kmer-based BLASTn and in silico PCR/Snippy pipeline, enables fast, standardized agr group typing and frameshift/null mutation detection from genome assemblies

  aureus complete extracted agr kmer-based sheep mash

• Distinct sympathetic projections to brown fat regulate thermogenesis and glucose tolerance.

  PMID 41559445 · PMC12945688 · Nature metabolism · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  Distinct sympathetic neuron subpopulations in the stellate ganglion (SG) innervating iBAT parenchyma versus its vasculature mediate separable functions of the depot.

  th-cre awake ibat plasma retrograde chemogenetic indirect

• A genomics-based approach to biodefence preparedness.

  PMID 14708013 · PMC7097618 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2004 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome sequence data are now available for essentially all 25-30 principal human bacterial pathogens, including most CDC category A-C bioterror agents

  bacillus brucella neisseria gastric comparative transcriptome two-dimensional

• Metabolism as a complex genetic trait, a systems biology approach: implications for inborn errors of metabolism and clinical diseases.

  PMID 18836848 · PMC4319114 · Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Synergistic heterozygosity — cumulative heterozygous mutations at multiple loci in functionally related metabolic pathways — can cause physiologically relevant reduction of pathway flux and disease.

  models liver sucrose vlcad-deficient physiological blue sucrose

• Intact innervation is essential for diet-induced recruitment of brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 30576247 · PMC6459298 · American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction

  Intact innervation of BAT is essential for diet-induced thermogenesis/recruitment.

  interscapular whole-body adipose ibat surgical indirect western

• The cold-induced lipokine 12,13-diHOME promotes fatty acid transport into brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 28346411 · PMC5699924 · Nature medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  12,13-diHOME is a cold-induced lipokine that stimulates BAT activity

  plasma bat serum mice lc-ms correlation 18f-fdg

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

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

  Has reproduction · 78

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

  bat wild-type brown histology qrt-pcr norepinephrine

• Endurance exercise as a countermeasure for aging.

  PMID 18716044 · PMC2570389 · Diabetes · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Reduced insulin sensitivity with age is likely related to adiposity and physical inactivity rather than being an inevitable consequence of aging.

  vastus mitochondria mitochondrial extracted euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic mitochondrial citrate

• Taxonomic description of cyanobacteria from extreme habitats through genome-based classification.

  PMID 42131214 · PMC13161053 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cyanobacteria dominate the microbial communities of Hawaiian steam vent habitats, with community composition varying by microhabitat

  environmental steam assembled cyanobacterial 16s metagenome genome

• The ubiquitin ligase KLHL6 drives resistance to CD8(+) T cell dysfunction.

  PMID 41535474 · PMC12979199 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KLHL6 is a dual-negative regulator of both T cell exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction

  cd8+ cas9+ sgklhl6-transduced klhl6 bulk pooled flow