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).

• 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

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• 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

• An integrated single-cell lung cancer atlas reveals distinct fibroblast phenotypes between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinomas.

  PMID 41577803 · PMC12920623 · NPJ precision oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammatory CAFs (iCAFs) predominate in LUAD, whereas myofibroblastic CAFs (mCAFs) predominate in LUSC

  nsclc epithelial macrophage caf scrna-seq copy gene-set

• CAF-enriched COL4A6 promotes gastric cancer progression and stromal remodeling despite an inverse association in bulk transcriptomes.

  PMID 41735371 · PMC13031391 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  COL4A6 carries an inverse association (OR<1) in bulk transcriptome-based risk models despite being markedly upregulated and predominantly localized to the CAF compartment in clinical specimens

  tcga-stad gse66229 gse183904 paired bulk microarray scrna-seq

• TiRank prioritizes phenotypic niches in tumor microenvironment for clinical biomarker discovery.

  PMID 41689080 · PMC12910759 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TiRank is a framework that integrates scRNA-seq, ST, and bulk transcriptomes using an REO-transformation module and multitask transfer learning to align data into a unified embedding space for prioritizing clinically relevant spatial niches

  benchmark pan-cancer gastric independent scrna-seq bulk spatial

• Dynamic changes of the immune microenvironment in ovarian cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

  PMID 41872134 · PMC13039919 · Cell death discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Prostaglandin-mediated immunosuppressive microenvironment formation is a critical contributor to chemotherapy resistance following cisplatin treatment

  high-grade hgsoc bone bmdms scrna-seq cell-cell tensor

• Multi-Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals That EREG-Driven TME Crosstalk Defines Anti-EGFR Response in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 42043480 · PMC13115984 · Cancer medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EGFRI eligibility (defined by left-sidedness, RAS/BRAF wild-type, MSS) stratifies cancer cell transcriptomic characteristics more strongly than sidedness alone.

  crc epcam+ aggregated cancer scrna-seq copy pseudobulk

• POSTN(+) fibroblast‑secreted small extracellular vesicles drive macrophage M2 polarization through BMP4/BMPR2/Smad signaling.

  PMID 41645751 · PMC12891935 · Oncology reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of two HNSCC scRNA-seq datasets reveals two distinct fibroblast subtypes: POSTN- and POSTN+ fibroblasts

  hnscc tcga-hnscc oscc oscc-derived single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Spatial multi-omics identifies a NOTCH3-mediated capillary-mCAF crosstalk driving immune exclusion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 42099451 · PMC13147954 · iMeta · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A high-resolution spatial multi-omics atlas of HCC (CosMx transcriptomics + GeoMx proteomics + pan-cancer scRNA-seq of CAFs under ICB) reveals coordinated cellular topography of the tumor microenvironment

  hcc cafs independent spontaneous spatial pan-cancer multiplex

• Spatial multi-omics unveils the monoclonal origin, neuroendocrine plasticity, and microenvironment niches in combined small-cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41966692 · PMC13130634 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Different histologic components within cSCLC tumors share a monoclonal origin

  ffpe sections tumor luad multi-region spatial single-nucleus

• The complement system contributes to the immunosuppressive microenvironment of uveal melanoma.

  PMID 41803879 · PMC13130498 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Primary UM (pUM) preferentially expresses early complement pathway components over terminal membrane attack complex elements, with early factors showing prognostic significance.

  short-term metastatic normal pum bulk label-free single-cell