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).

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• A single cell characterisation of human embryogenesis identifies pluripotency transitions and putative anterior hypoblast centre.

  PMID 34140473 · PMC8211662 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The embryonic epiblast progressively transitions from a naïve to a primed pluripotent state as it develops from pre- to post-implantation.

  embryo single-cell logistic immunofluorescence

• Recurrent RNA edits in human preimplantation potentially enhance maternal mRNA clearance.

  PMID 36543858 · PMC9772385 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Compiled the largest human embryonic A-to-I editome to date from 2071 RNA-seq transcriptomes and identified thousands of per-stage Recurrent Embryonic Edits (REEs, present in ≥50% of samples per stage)

  preimplantation single uniparental embryos rna-seq paired gene

• E3RC: A step-by-step computational protocol for exploring enhancer RNA expression and regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  PMID 40716058 · PMC12318280 · STAR protocols · 2025 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  E3RC is a computational framework for identifying and quantifying eRNAs and characterizing their expression and transcriptional regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  preimplantation genome erna bulk computational motif

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• 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

• 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

• Lineage-specific, fast-evolving GATA-like gene regulates zygotic gene activation to promote endoderm specification and pattern formation in the Theridiidae spider.

  PMID 36203191 · PMC9535882 · BMC biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative RNA-seq of cells isolated from central, intermediate, and peripheral regions of stage-3 embryos identifies genes with locally restricted expression genome-wide

  tepidariorum drosophila rna-seq whole-mount parental

• Microglia maintain structural integrity during fetal brain morphogenesis.

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

  Has reproduction · 68

  ATM-like microglia accumulate at two embryonic cortical boundaries, the cortico-striato-amygdalar boundary (CSA) and cortico-septal boundary (CSB)

  embryonic brain fetal embryos single-cell immunolabeling antibody-mediated

• Toward a Consensus in the Repertoire of Hemocytes Identified in Drosophila.

  PMID 33748138 · PMC7969988 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative analysis of three scRNAseq studies identifies eight common, robust hemocyte subgroups associated with distinct functions (proliferation, immune response, phagocytosis, secretion)

  wandering feeding stage type single scenic immunolabeling

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

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

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  PEMA, a Ribo-seq-weighted computational framework, characterizes metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more accurately than Compass

  8-cell ch3pn pre-implantation computational single-embryo cut&tag

• Cell fixation and preservation for droplet-based single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 28526029 · PMC5438562 · BMC biology · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Methanol fixation stabilizes and preserves dissociated cells for weeks without compromising single-cell RNA-seq data quality

  hek293 dissociated facs-sorted hek drop-seq bulk trizol

• A chromosome-scale genome assembly and karyotype of the ctenophore Hormiphora californensis.

  PMID 34545398 · PMC8527503 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A chromosome-scale genome assembly of H. californensis spans 110 Mb in 44 scaffolds, with 99.47% of bases in 13 scaffolds

  californensis chromosome pacbio illumina

• Early life-stage thermal resilience is determined by climate-linked regulatory variation.

  PMID 41505517 · PMC12799179 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic heat tolerance in D. melanogaster is determined by climate-linked regulatory genetic variation at loci on chromosomes 2R and X

  melanogaster simulated synthetic wild-collected heat-shock pool-seq drift-only

• CDKL1 variants affecting ciliary formation predispose to thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection.

  PMID 41056017 · PMC12646653 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Heterozygous CDKL1 missense variants (Cys143Arg, Ser206Leu, Thr135Met) were identified in 6 patients from 3 families with TAAD spectrum disorders

  patients cohort cdkl1 aortic exome gene structural

• H3K27 and H3K9 methylation mask potential CTCF binding sites to maintain 3D genome integrity.

  PMID 40764058 · PMC12487818 · Genome research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  H3K9 and H3K27 methylation regulate CTCF binding at distinct genomic regions, and their simultaneous loss induces drastic changes in CTCF binding

  imefs early ctcf h3k9me3 h3k9me2

• auts2 Features and Expression Are Highly Conserved during Evolution Despite Different Evolutionary Fates Following Whole Genome Duplication.

  PMID 36078102 · PMC9454499 · Cells · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  auts2a and auts2b originate from the teleost-specific whole genome duplication (TGD)

  fish genomic auts2 tissues comparative tblastn phylogenetic