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).

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  sctRNA-seq datasets (particularly LCM-seq) show measurable off-target mRNA contamination from surrounding cell types

  brain neocortex cortex allen lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

  pubmed scrna-seq tcga basal manual scrna-seq bulk

• CD14(lo)CD301b(+) macrophages gathering as a proangiogenic marker in adipose tissues.

  PMID 39645040 · PMC11745947 · Journal of lipid research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cd14−/− mice exhibit a leaner body shape and are protected from HFD-induced obesity compared to WT mice

  epididymal adipose cd14low macrophage bulk scrna-seq pseudotime

• Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2(+) cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 35547750 · PMC9065207 · Theranostics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

  tcga paired thbs2+ scrna-seq wgcna scrna-seq gsea

• Enabling Single-Cell Drug Response Annotations from Bulk RNA-Seq Using SCAD.

  PMID 36762572 · PMC10104628 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  SCAD, a transfer learning framework integrating adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (ADDA), can infer single-cell drug sensitivities by transferring knowledge from bulk RNA-seq pharmacogenomic data (GDSC) to scRNA-seq target domains

  pan-cancer pc9 451lu a375 bulk scrna-seq computational

• Combinatory differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells generates functional thymic epithelium driving dendritic cell and CD4/CD8 T cell development.

  PMID 41577697 · PMC12932823 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  DOE-based multifactorial screening combined with bulk RNA-seq comparison to scRNA-seq pharyngeal atlases identifies signaling factors that optimize iPSc differentiation toward thymic epithelial progenitors (TEPs)

  ipsc embryonic ipsc-derived bulk scrna-seq qpcr

• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• A multi-omics features-based approach integrating immunogenicity and inflammation enhances immunotherapy benefit in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 41640425 · PMC12864441 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The TIs-ML multi-omics model predicts ICB response/survival in ccRCC with superior accuracy (AUC > 0.997) compared to single biomarkers like PD-L1 and TMB

  autoimmune igan scrna-seq bulk bulk scrna-seq scissor-based

• 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

• ICE: robust detection of cellular senescence from weak single-cell signatures using imputation-based marker refinement.

  PMID 41668152 · PMC12990438 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Senescence-associated marker genes show weak, non-specific expression across human tissues and cell types compared to canonical tissue/cell-type markers

  tissues pancreas pancreatic brain bulk scrna-seq train

• Distinct radial glia subtypes regulate midbrain dopaminergic neuron development.

  PMID 41699318 · PMC13061605 · Nature neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Rgl1 is the progenitor of the mesDA neuronal lineage

  embryonic developing wa09 bulk scrna-seq ligand-receptor

• DeCAF defines clinical fibroblast subtypes and multidimensional tumor-stroma crosstalk shaping prognosis and immunotherapy response.

  PMID 41707654 · PMC12923980 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeCAF is a single-sample kTSP classifier using 9 TSP gene pairs that predicts proCAF vs restCAF subtypes from bulk expression data

  pdac cptac external elyada-sc bulk single-sample classifier

• Isoform-specific single-cell perturb-seq reveals distinct functions of alternative promoters in drug response.

  PMID 41728950 · PMC12926921 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 5 claims · 8 setups

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  CRISPR-dCas9-based screens exhibit widespread promoter specificity, with untargeted promoters often showing compensatory upregulation to maintain overall gene expression

  mcf-7 rpe1 mcf-7-dcas9 tissue-wide isoform-specific reanalysis qrt-pcr

• Clonal dynamics shaped by diverse drug-tolerant persister states in melanoma resistance.

  PMID 41776501 · PMC13162433 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MeRLin, a single-vector high-complexity lineage tracing platform integrating cellular barcoding, scRNA-seq, RNA-FISH, and computational analysis, was developed to track clonal and transcriptional dynamics in a melanoma PDX model

  wm4237-1 nsg bulk scrna-seq clonal

• Spatial cartography of human thymus enables the geopositioning of lineage transcription factors in rare mimetic thymic epithelial cells.

  PMID 41807357 · PMC13102919 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Generated a high-resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of human fetal (13,14,17,18w) and paediatric (7w,2y,5y,6y) thymi using Stereo-seq, integrated with scRNA-seq and MACSima/Stereo-CITE proteomics

  fetal paediatric thymus stereo-seq scrna-seq macsima

• 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

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of human skin anatomy.

  PMID 41872488 · PMC13083264 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH-based spatial atlas of ~1.2 million cells resolves 45 cell types across 114 samples and 15 anatomic sites in normal human skin

  normal skin gtex matched merfish scrna-seq bulk

• 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

• Spatial transcriptomics unveils immune cellular ecosystems associated with patient survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

  PMID 42010788 · PMC13102037 · Oncoimmunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  DLBCL tissues are organized into six recurrent, spatially defined cellular ecosystems (Cell-Eco) with distinct immune compositions, transcriptional programs, and neighborhood architectures.

  dlbcl cd45+ spots scrna-seq spatial scrna-seq cell-type

• SpaNiche: spatial niche analysis to explore colocalization patterns and cellular interactions in spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 42015285 · PMC13231777 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaNiche integrates smoothed cell-type abundance and ligand-receptor expression matrices via graph-regularized joint NMF, across multiple spatial views, to identify colocalization patterns

  lymph colorectal prostate cerebral simulated spatial scrna-seq