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).

• Multi-modal dissection of cell-type specific TDP-43 pathology in the motor cortex.

  PMID 41803120 · PMC12982666 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Mainly excitatory cortical neurons are affected by TDP-43 pathology in the ALS/ALS-FTD motor cortex

  post-mortem publicly als single-nucleus single-nucleus spatial genotyping

• Smart spatial omics (S2-omics) optimizes region of interest selection to capture molecular heterogeneity in diverse tissues.

  PMID 41298871 · PMC12662399 · Nature cell biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  S2-omics is an end-to-end workflow that automatically selects ROIs from H&E histology images to maximize molecular information content for spatial omics profiling.

  gastric colorectal additional breast xenium visium histology

• Benchmarking tools for deciphering cellular crosstalk in spatially-resolved transcriptomics.

  PMID 41952215 · PMC13174004 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  No prior systematic, quantitative benchmark exists for CCI inference methods specifically developed for spatial transcriptomics across multiple platforms

  synthetic real simulated simulation spot-purity real-data

• stDyer-image improves clustering analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics and proteomics with morphological images.

  PMID 41692960 · PMC12960910 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  stDyer-image directly associates the image modality with predicted cluster labels rather than using images to enhance/impute gene expression data

  non-small morphology brain breast spatial image

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• 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

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• Sequence and structure signatures of cancer mutation hotspots in protein kinases.

  PMID 19834613 · PMC2759519 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Developed CKMD (Composite Kinase Mutation Database), an integrated bioinformatics resource mapping genetic variation in protein kinase genes to sequence, structural, and functional data

  kinase common egfr autoinhibited database-driven structure-informed evolutionary

• DANST enables cell-type deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics using deep domain adversarial neural networks.

  PMID 41663685 · PMC12996496 · Communications biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  DANST, a deconvolution framework using deep domain adversarial neural networks, achieves superior cell-type deconvolution accuracy compared with existing methods on human and mouse benchmark datasets

  heart cortex visual brain spatial cell-type

• HCCaging: a liver physiological aging-related biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis based on transcriptome data.

  PMID 41942446 · PMC13230847 · npj aging · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 16-gene HCCaging signature was derived via GSVA from genes overlapping age-associated upregulated genes in TCGA, scRNA-seq, and ICGC datasets

  tcga-lihc hcc icgc six bulk single-cell gsva-based

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• Therapeutic manipulation and spatial quantification of the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41907400 · PMC13018967 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer fibroblast heterogeneity can be distilled into two overarching, transcriptomically distinct CAF populations marked by PDGFRA+ and ACTA2+ expression

  crc colonic gemm scrna-seq multiplex bulk

• 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

• Hi-Compass: a depth-aware deep learning framework for predicting cell-type-specific 3D genome organization from single-cell to spatial resolution.

  PMID 41980945 · PMC13250166 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Hi-Compass predicts cell-type-specific Hi-C contact maps using only ATAC-seq as cell-type-specific input, plus DNA sequence and a generalized CTCF binding profile

  gm12878 curated bulk training hi-c ctcf matched

• Identification of a new population of Tnn(+) progenitors to form tendon enthesis fibrocartilage.

  PMID 42009636 · PMC13096267 · Bone research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel Tnn+ progenitor cell population resides in the tendon enthesis and serves as a cellular origin of fibrocartilage lineages

  tendon developing spatial single-cell visium single-cell stamp

• Secreted phospholipase PLA2G5 acts as a hemolytic factor in sepsis.

  PMID 42065235 · PMC13132393 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pla2g5 gene expression is induced in the colon and small intestine during LPS-induced endotoxemia and CLP-induced sepsis in mice

  colon mice serum bone whole-mount rna-seq survival

• Robust characterization and interpretation of rare pathogenic cell populations from spatial omics using GARDEN.

  PMID 41547856 · PMC12917120 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GARDEN identifies and characterizes rare pathogenic cell populations/regions in spatial omics by embedding graph-based dynamic attention into a spatially-aware graph fusion contrastive model

  breast anterior brain olfactory 10x starmap slide-seqv2

• CellMap: precision mapping of cellular landscape in spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41505103 · PMC12781899 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  CellMap combines co-linearity of seed genes, a random forest model, and the linear assignment algorithm to achieve optimal assignment of single cells to spatial spots

  platforms single-cell expression computational scrna-seq spatial

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics define 20E-driven developmental reprogramming in silkworm wing disc.

  PMID 41730863 · PMC13039787 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Wing morphogenesis (Wm) cells act as central progenitors/differentiation hub, giving rise to epithelial and cuticle lineages under lineage-specific transcription factors

  mori spodoptera scrna-seq stereo-seq snrna-seq

• 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