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).

• Integrated Single Cell Spatial Analysis Reveals Dysregulated Basal Progenitor Cells in Ulcerative Colitis Pathogenesis: A Multi Omics Study.

  PMID 41542331 · PMC12802566 · Health science reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BPC differentiation is significantly altered in UC, driven by a FABP1-led functional gene matrix

  colorectal colon patients bulk single-cell spatial bulk

• Intratumoral heterogeneity in microsatellite instability status at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41767255 · PMC12936829 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A novel computational (Snakemake) pipeline quantifies intratumoral heterogeneity in MSI status at single-cell resolution

  colorectal cancer aggregated msisensor-rna single-cell cnv-based

• Robust and efficient annotation of cell states through gene signature scoring.

  PMID 41708334 · PMC12951948 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Established scoring methods (Seurat, SCANPY, UCell, JASMINE) fail to provide robust and comparable score distributions across diverse signatures and experimental conditions, precluding accurate unsupervised cell-state annotation.

  pbmc colorectal esophageal crc scrna-seq cross-implementation signature

• scComm: a contrastive learning framework for deciphering cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41877186 · PMC13134144 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scComm infers cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution using a data-adaptive L-R weighting module and supervised contrastive learning (SupCon loss) to distinguish significant CCC events from background noise

  simulated spatial liver single-cell simulated spatial scrna-seq

• CLK1 Promotes Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Trafficking and Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment by Activating Hippo/YAP Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41686262 · PMC13136879 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLK1 is markedly upregulated in immune-cold colorectal tumors and correlates with increased MDSC infiltration and CD8+ T-cell exclusion

  colorectal tcga-coad ct26 tumor scrna-seq bulk multiplex

• Therapeutic manipulation and spatial quantification of the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41907400 · PMC13018967 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer fibroblast heterogeneity can be distilled into two overarching, transcriptomically distinct CAF populations marked by PDGFRA+ and ACTA2+ expression

  crc colonic gemm scrna-seq multiplex bulk

• 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

• Exploring phenotype-related single-cells through attention-enhanced representation learning.

  PMID 41566378 · PMC12906058 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  scPhase, an attention-based multiple instance learning (AMIL) framework with Mixture-of-Experts aggregation, predicts sample-level clinical phenotypes from raw scRNA-seq data and generalizes across patient cohorts

  pbmcs brain tumor scrna-seq

• PreTSA: computationally efficient modeling of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns.

  PMID 41673899 · PMC12998178 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PreTSA dramatically reduces computational time and memory versus GAM (Monocle, TSCAN) and PseudotimeDE for identifying temporally variable genes (TVGs) while producing highly similar results

  simulated null pbmc pancreas pseudotime tvg false-positive

• SexTumorDB: a comprehensive resource of sex-dependent tumor landscape at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41741497 · PMC13046873 · Scientific data · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SexTumorDB is an integrated resource of RNA-seq profiles of non-reproductive tumors at single-cell resolution, curated, processed, and standardized from published datasets

  acute bladder clear colorectal scrna-seq snrna-seq

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• 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

• 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

• A Plastic EMP1+ to LGR5+ Cell State Conversion as a Bypass to KRASG12D Pharmacologic Inhibition in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41128661 · PMC12877754 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RMC-9945 exerts durable antitumor activity in early-stage liver metastasis but has diminished therapeutic effect in advanced metastatic disease

  aktp colorectal drug single-cell rnascope

• 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

• Deep learning linking mechanistic models to single-cell transcriptomics data reveals transcriptional bursting in response to DNA damage.

  PMID 41779826 · PMC12959883 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  DeepTX is an interpretable, scalable deep learning inference framework that links mechanistic transcription models to scRNA-seq data to infer genome-wide transcriptional burst kinetics

  synthetic embryonic colorectal computational stochastic scrna-seq deep

• Ion-Channel-Mediated Drug Repurposing Opportunities Validated by Single-Cell Perturbation in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 42074061 · PMC13116841 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  WGCNA on CRC transcriptomes identified 100 hub genes spanning three functional programs: ribosomal biogenesis, RNA processing, and immune

  crc independent hct116 bulk protein-protein vgae-based

• CSsingle: a unified tool for robust decomposition of bulk and spatial transcriptomic data across diverse single-cell references.

  PMID 42080261 · PMC13136905 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSsingle explicitly corrects for cell-type-specific RNA content (cell size) differences using ERCC spike-ins or a novel computational estimator

  blood breast developing colorectal bulk scrna-seq spatial

• Pharmacological perturbation of splicing elicits SMG1 reduction: Implications for cancer therapy.

  PMID 41623476 · PMC12857400 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 12 setups

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  Splicing-modulatory drugs MS023 and indisulam act as inadvertent NMD inhibitors by downregulating SMG1 protein levels

  4t1 tumor-draining arst panc02 mts tumor ifn-γ

• A Soft Matrix Microenvironment Promotes Laterally Spreading Tumors via Oxidative Phosphorylation-Dependent Cell Adhesion.

  PMID 41833005 · PMC13248847 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  LSTs exhibit a more malignant phenotype than PAs, with higher inferred CNV scores, stronger genetic correlation with colorectal cancer, and downregulation of adhesion molecules

  patients bulk colorectal epithelial clinical bulk single-cell