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).

• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk bulk

• transFusion: a novel comprehensive platform for integration analysis of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41645434 · PMC12930851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  transFusion is a comprehensive, web-based platform for integrated analysis of scRNA-seq and 10x Visium spatial transcriptomics data requiring no parameter configuration

  breast scrna-seq 10x cellphonedb

• 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

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• Interpretable and integrative analysis of single-cell multiomics with scMKL.

  PMID 40770488 · PMC12328712 · Communications biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  scMKL outperforms SVM, EasyMKL, MLP, and XGBoost in classification accuracy (AUROC) across multiple single-cell cancer datasets

  mcf-7 t-47d small prostate 10x scrna-seq sciatac-seq

• Chromatin architecture reprogramming reveals novel epigenetic dependencies in breast cancer.

  PMID 41412800 · PMC12849445 · Genes & development · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  H3K9 methylation and the demethylase KDM4C, through association with SWI/SNF, drive proliferation of cells fated to become endocrine-resistant via a nongenomic estrogen-mediated mechanism

  parental t47d esr1 scrna-seq hi-c atac-seq

• Identification of cycling regulatory T cell precursors as conductors of immune escape during breast carcinoma progression.

  PMID 41997138 · PMC13213619 · Cancer cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel proliferative Treg precursor state, cycling Treg (cycTreg: FOXP3^int, MKI67^hi, IKZF2/4^int-hi), is absent in normal breast, low in DCIS, and strongly expanded in IBC

  normal mammary dcis tumor-draining scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• Decoding clone evolution in HER2 amplified breast cancer through single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of copy number variations.

  PMID 41840060 · PMC13125306 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  IDC exhibits significantly higher CNV burden than DCIS, supporting progressive genomic instability during tumor evolution

  her2-positive epithelial malignant tcga-brca single-cell spatial infercnv

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow is proposed, spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis, to overcome methodological inconsistencies in the field.

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• Migratory Tumor Cells Cooperate with Cancer Associated Fibroblasts in Hormone Receptor-Positive and HER2-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 38892065 · PMC11172245 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HR+/HER2-BC tumor epithelial cells comprise four single-cell-defined functional (SC-f) subtypes: migratory, secretory, proliferating, and dysfunctional.

  hr+ epcam-sorted tumor tcga-brca droplet sidr-seq bulk

• Discovery and Evaluation of Biomarkers for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Subtypes Uncovers Patient Stratification and Targeted Therapeutic Strategies.

  PMID 41671401 · PMC13176827 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A set of basal identity genes (SMA/ACTA2, TAGLN, TPM2) defined by scRNA-seq analysis enables subclassification of TNBC into a subgroup termed true basal TNBC (tB-TNBC)

  healthy ffpe tcga i-spy2 scrna-seq immunohistochemistry bulk

• Single-cell profiling reveals distinct populations of tumor-associated macrophages and metastatic tumor cells in breast cancer brain metastasis.

  PMID 42034645 · PMC13247122 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell profiling of BCBM identifies 12 tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) subtypes and 5 metastatic tumor cell (MTC) subtypes with distinct transcriptional profiles

  brain breast scrna-seq tams scrna-seq bulk copy

• Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1β/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils.

  PMID 38358352 · PMC10903300 · Cancer research communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two main neutrophil subtypes exist in primary tumors: an activated subtype sharing transcriptomic signatures with healthy neutrophils, and a tumor-specific subtype.

  colorectal sorted integrated neutrophil scrna-seq bulk immunohistochemistry

• BayesRare: Bayesian mixture model for population-level rare cell type detection in multi-subject single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41632592 · PMC12867491 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  BayesRare is a hierarchical Bayesian mixture model framework for population-level rare cell type detection in multi-subject scRNA-seq data

  synthetic breast kidney parkinson's scrna-seq

• 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

• A Single-Cell Atlas of Pan-Cancer Liver Metastasis Reveals Dynamic Cellular Programs Driving Metastatic Progression and Immune Modulation.

  PMID 41884334 · PMC13010057 · Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of liver metastasis was constructed from 100 scRNA-seq samples (75 individuals, 16 studies), profiling 460,337 cells into 121 distinct cellular subtypes.

  epithelial liver-related scrna-seq copy cellular

• Integrating single-cell and single-nucleus datasets improves bulk RNA-seq deconvolution.

  PMID 41895263 · PMC13106970 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  scRNA-seq references yield significantly higher Pearson correlation and lower RMSE than snRNA-seq references for deconvolution across all four tissue datasets

  adipose same fat-cell real pseudobulk single-cell synthetic

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Revealed Heterogeneity and Identified Novel Therapeutic Targets for Breast Cancer Subtypes.

  PMID 37190091 · PMC10137100 · Cells · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of EPCAM+Lin- epithelial cells identified unique gene signatures/markers that distinguish ER+, HER2+, ER+HER2+, and TNBC molecular subtypes

  breast epcam+cd45-cd8a-cd4-cd19-cd3e cancer identified single-cell differential crispr-cas9

• VISTA uncovers missing gene expression and spatial-induced information for spatial transcriptomic data analysis.

  PMID 41507434 · PMC12891734 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  VISTA predicts unmeasured gene expression in subcellular spatial transcriptomic data by integrating scRNA-seq and SST through variational inference and geometric deep learning with built-in uncertainty quantification

  brain breast embryo muscle imaging-based sequencing spot-based

• Host-derived interleukin-1α drives tumor immunosuppression by reprogramming tumor-associated myeloid cells.

  PMID 41547846 · PMC12910057 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deletion of host Il1α causes rejection/regression of transplanted breast tumors

  h605 pymt tumor-infiltrating two-week orthotopic flow single-cell