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).

• Deep single-cell decoding of human pancreatic islets reveals T2D β-cell gene expression defects.

  PMID 41986506 · PMC13226668 · The EMBO journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptome profiling of 245,878 islet cells from 48 donors (ND/PD/T2D) identifies 14 distinct, robust islet cell types detected in every donor

  pancreatic aggregated endoc-βh3 subset droplet-based pseudobulk unsupervised

• FLASH-MM: fast and scalable single-cell differential expression analysis using linear mixed-effects models.

  PMID 41644528 · PMC12982622 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FLASH-MM produces LMM parameter estimates identical to lmer (lme4) up to the sixth decimal place while being 50- to 140-fold faster as sample size increases from 20,000 to 120,000 cells

  simulated same healthy female-biased simulated comparative single-cell

• Cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies of liver function biomarkers uncover pleiotropic variants, systemic disease links and therapeutic targets.

  PMID 41689074 · PMC13005531 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  5,507 lead signals (P<5x10^-9) were identified for seven LFQBs across ancestries, including 210 novel loci

  hope biobank combined cross-ancestry gwas cross-ancestry functional-informed

• l-2-Hydroxyglutarate impairs neuronal differentiation through epigenetic activation of MYC expression.

  PMID 41842973 · PMC13132370 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  L2HGDH deficiency causes L-2HG (not D-2HG) accumulation in patient plasma, fibroblasts, iPSCs, and NPCs

  plasma patient-derived unedited day-14 metabolomics crispr proliferation

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• CeLLTra: aligning cell names with gene expression via a pathway-informed transformer.

  PMID 41652996 · PMC12881829 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Grouping genes into pathway-defined gene sets as Transformer input tokens (instead of using individual genes or discretized bins) mitigates the long-sequence problem and improves representation learning of scRNA-Seq gene expression profiles.

  tabula tumor-infiltrating scrna-seq

• Partial domain adaptation enables cross domain cell type annotation between scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq.

  PMID 42090457 · PMC13170964 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  ScNucAdapt is a partial domain adaptation framework that enables cross-domain cell type annotation between paired or unpaired scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq datasets.

  bladder kidney cortex frozen scrna-seq snrna-seq

• SpaJoint: a transfer learning method for spatial transcriptomics deconvolution.

  PMID 41955028 · PMC13069903 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 1 setups

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  SpaJoint is a transfer-learning-based deconvolution method that integrates scRNA-seq and ST gene expression while accounting for spatial correlation across spots.

  simulated spatial

• CellPredX, a computational framework for cross-data type, cross-sample, and cross-protocol cell type annotation through domain adaptation and deep metric learning.

  PMID 41481570 · PMC12758788 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CellPredX is a unified semi-supervised framework integrating domain adaptation and deep metric learning to align heterogeneous embeddings for cross-modality cell type annotation.

  pbmc fetal pancreas gse149683 matched unmatched cross-protocol

• Cell-type annotation with accurate unseen cell-type identification using multiple references.

  PMID 37379341 · PMC10335708 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  mtANN integrates multiple reference datasets and eight gene selection methods via ensemble learning (multiple deep classification models + majority voting) to improve cell-type annotation accuracy

  pbmc pancreas covid-19 scrna-seq

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Single-cell multiomics profiling reveals heterogeneous transcriptional programs and microenvironment in DSRCTs.

  PMID 38781959 · PMC11228554 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DSRCT tumor cells cluster into consistent subpopulations with partially overlapping lineage- and metabolism-related transcriptional programs across patients and samples

  fresh matched archived dsrct scrna-seq single-nucleus bulk

• Integrated multi-omic atlas reveals the hierarchy of spatiotemporal regulatory networks of mouse gastrulation.

  PMID 41526381 · PMC12902073 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BioCRE, a novel bi-orientation regression algorithm, more accurately links genes to candidate cis-regulatory elements (CREs) than existing tools Signac and ArchR

  gastrulating gastrula gold-standard embryo single-cell computational promoter

• Single-cell multiome and enhancer connectome of human retinal pigment epithelium and choroid nominate causal variants in macular degeneration.

  PMID 41528844 · PMC12971065 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility (multiome) atlas of human RPE and choroid from control and AMD eyes

  rpe-choroid rpe arpe-19 scatac-seq joint h3k27ac activity-by-contact

• Predictive modeling of molecular activity underlying physical cell-cell interactions.

  PMID 41672069 · PMC12946745 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Gloss, an overlapping group lasso regression combining single-gene and curated pathway features, predicts LIPSTIC interaction intensity from scRNA-seq data

  tumor intestine mediastinal organs lipsticv1 ulipstic cite-seq

• Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal That TXNIP and BIRC3 Contribute to Human Prostate Tumor Progression.

  PMID 41972735 · PMC13072731 · Cells · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TXNIP and BIRC3 are established as spatially restricted tumor-niche genes associated with metabolic stress and inflammatory survival pathways

  prostate tcga-prad integration single-cell spatial pseudotime

• 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

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• Cell-type- and chromosome-specific chromatin landscapes and DNA replication programs of Drosophila testis tumor stem cell-like cells.

  PMID 41371963 · PMC12758400 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GSC-like and CySC-like cells isolated from upd tumor testes are transcriptionally comparable to wild-type GSC/early-spermatogonia and CySC clusters, respectively

  upd gsc-like wild-type scrna-seq differential gene