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).

• Deconvolving cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq samples.

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• UBE2M as a bridge spanning neddylation and cell cycle regulation in colorectal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41680469 · PMC12993059 · Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neddylation is associated with G2M phase progression in CRC

  crc paired hek293t cell-free single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• Advancing Prognosis Prediction and Immunotherapy Efficacy in Lung Adenocarcinoma Through Machine Learning: Novel Insights From Anoikis Regulator Patterns in Single-Cell Multiomics.

  PMID 41488744 · PMC12764181 · International journal of genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial and endothelial cells show the highest anoikis-enriched scores among LUAD TME cell types, with AT2-like Epi being the most anoikis-related epithelial subpopulation.

  luad pan-cancer tumor scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Analysis of microsatellite instability intensity in single-cell resolution with scMnT reveals tumor heterogeneity in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41978385 · PMC13076935 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scMnT identifies MSI cells and quantifies MSI intensity at single-cell resolution from scRNA-seq data using mononucleotide microsatellite allele length statistics

  crc cancer sc035 p20 scrna-seq snv msi

• 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

• 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

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• 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

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• Multi-omics analyses related to unfolded protein response in prostate cancer implicate pro-tumor role of IFRD1.

  PMID 41694360 · PMC12894258 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Luminal prostate epithelial cells, especially the LE-KLK3 subpopulation, show elevated UPR activity compared to other cell types

  pca tcga-prad external scrna-seq bulk immune

• Annotation-free prediction of immunotherapy response in melanoma using single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41758825 · PMC12948085 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AI-based predictive models built on unannotated scRNA-seq data (cell-by-gene expression matrices) can classify melanoma patients as ICI responders vs. non-responders

  cd45+ scrna-seq independent scrna-seq single-gene-level pathway-level

• Single-cell transcriptomics reveals heterogeneous neutrophil populations and diagnostic biomarkers in atherosclerosis.

  PMID 41847341 · PMC12989409 · Frontiers in physiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq data from six human carotid samples identified 16 distinct cell subtypes after batch effect correction with Harmony

  carotid neutrophil bulk c57bl scrna-seq hdwgcna lasso

• Integrative multimodal transcriptomics identifies a cancer-associated fibroblast membrane signature for predicting prognosis and therapeutic response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41942785 · PMC13053443 · Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A PDAC-enriched myoCAF-c1 fibroblast cluster is closely associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and angiogenesis

  pdac myocaf-c1-derived tcga-paad scrna-seq spatial bulk

• 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

• Multiomic and functional validation of ACSL3, a regulator of fatty acid metabolism, as a lymph node metastasis-associated gene in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41998631 · PMC13261843 · Respiratory research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A five-gene FAM-related risk signature (ACSL3, MCAT, NDUFAB1, OLAH, ACSL4)-derived FScore stratifies LUAD prognosis across multiple independent cohorts

  tcga-luad luad a549 lymphatic bulk scrna-seq spatial

• scSurv: a deep generative model for single-cell survival analysis.

  PMID 41429574 · PMC12797213 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scSurv combines a Cox proportional hazards model with a deep generative model (VAE) of single-cell transcriptomes to estimate individual cellular contributions to clinical outcomes

  simulated tcga melanoma renal scrna-seq bulk single-cell

• Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice.

  PMID 40629142 · PMC12321585 · Nature neuroscience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Ganglionic eminence (ventral) progenitors maintain stable differentiation competence throughout neurogenesis, generating a consistent set of postmitotic precursor states at all stages, unlike dorsal cortical progenitors whose differentiation competence changes gradually.

  dlx5 progenitors sections cortical scrna-seq trackerseq flashtag

• CanSig Benchmarks Methods for Reproducible Cancer Cell State Discovery from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 41231245 · PMC13053056 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CanSig is a comprehensive benchmarking tool for evaluating computational methods that identify shared transcriptional signatures in cancer from scRNA-seq data

  neftel kim scrna-seq same scrna-seq ground-truth robustness