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).

• FOXA1 loss drives basal/squamous de-differentiation of prostate cancer and induces an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41904157 · PMC13195071 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Prostate-specific Foxa1 deletion in Pten-null mice drives tumor progression by reprogramming luminal PCa cells toward a basal/squamous-like de-differentiated state

  prostate epithelial colony lymph h&e immunohistochemistry 10x

• Insights from pooled CRISPRi single-cell screens in K562 cells reveal gene functions, regulatory networks, and highlight opportunities and limitations.

  PMID 41826830 · PMC13097927 · BMC genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A modified CROP-seq-CRISPRi protocol allows direct capture of sgRNAs from the cDNA library without a separate enrichment step, improving sgRNA assignment per cell

  k562 lentiviral pooled plasmid amplicon

• MafB is a conserved transcriptional regulator of macrophage development and functional identity across tissues and species.

  PMID 41759510 · PMC7618887 · Immunity · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MafB is required for full differentiation of bone-marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) in vitro and for development of most RTMs in vivo

  bmdms peritoneal rtms irradiated bulk hashtag-barcoded intracellular

• Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics Characterizes Immune Microenvironment During Mouse Liver Aging.

  PMID 42010880 · PMC13096584 · Aging cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cells are the immune cell population with the most pronounced transcriptomic alterations during liver aging

  liver nash cirrhotic hcc scrna-seq snrna-seq stereo-seq

• 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

• OTMODE: an optimal transport theory-based framework for identifying differential features in single-cell multi-omics data.

  PMID 41335419 · PMC12766913 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OTMODE, using an unbalanced Sinkhorn algorithm and Wald test, improves differential feature identification in single-cell multi-omics data

  simulated classical degs naive simulated bulk real

• Single-cell sequencing analysis and machine learning model reveal aberrant TIM-3 expression in microglia during Alzheimer's disease progression.

  PMID 41580850 · PMC12911240 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A TIM-3+ microglial subset drives AD pathogenesis through a dual mechanism: sustained neuroinflammation via TNF-α/NF-κB and IL-6/JAK/STAT3 signaling, and impaired amyloid-β clearance linked to PI3K-AKT and FcγR pathways

  brain overlapping transcriptomic patients single-cell bulk kegg

• 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

• 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

• 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

• A ligand-centered framework for γδ T cell activation in colorectal cancer revealed by single-cell and transformer-based perturbation.

  PMID 41607803 · PMC12835328 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRC-infiltrating γδ T cells show varied activation levels, with the TRM-like population being the major tumor-infiltrating subtype and exhibiting the lowest effector and exhaustion signature scores.

  crc-infiltrating crc scrna-seq gene nichenet

• 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

• Stage- and cluster-specific regulation of chondrogenic gene programs by Sox9 in mouse embryonic limb buds.

  PMID 41809054 · PMC12969044 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scRNA-seq across five limb bud stages identifies four Sox9-high populations (chondroprogenitors 1, 2, 3, and mature chondrocytes) with distinct temporal dynamics

  forelimb scrna-seq cut&run embryo single-cell cut&run velocity

• High-fidelity bidirectional translation between single-cell transcriptomes and DNA methylomes with scBOND.

  PMID 41887797 · PMC13138010 · Genome research · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  scBOND is a bidirectional dual-channel VAE framework for cross-modality translation between scRNA-seq and scDNAm that outperforms existing baseline methods (scCross, MAPLE) in both translation directions

  mouseembryo humanbraina paired umap differential

• KRT15 identified by scRNA-Seq and machine learning as stemness regulator and prognostic biomarker in ESCC.

  PMID 41907411 · PMC13018899 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant epithelial subpopulation (Cluster 0) with the highest CytoTRACE stemness potential and highest EMT activity exists in ESCC scRNA-seq data

  escc degs eca109 kyse180 scrna-seq machine immunohistochemistry

• Aging-dependent microglial heterogeneity worsens outcomes in models of traumatic brain injury.

  PMID 41926211 · PMC13262727 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aged TBI brains predominantly harbor proinflammatory NLRP3+ microglia, whereas young TBI brains harbor neuroprotective Lysozyme+ microglia

  injured sorted facs-purified cas9-gfp scrna-seq atac-seq untargeted

• 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

• Decoding the tumor microenvironment and molecular mechanism: unraveling cervical cancer subpopulations and prognostic signatures through scRNA-Seq and bulk RNA-seq analyses.

  PMID 38482016 · PMC10933018 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a noteworthy subpopulation exerting a pivotal influence on CC differentiation and progression

  cervical tcga siha scrna-seq bulk rt-qpcr

• To Explore the Key Subgroup and Their Immune Microenvironment During the Formation of Coronary Plaque With scRNA-seq.

  PMID 40454289 · PMC12126265 · Cardiology research and practice · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  C1 RACK1+ NK cells are a crucial subgroup for understanding coronary plaque formation, exhibiting the highest cell stemness/differentiation potential and positioned at the start of the pseudotime trajectory

  coronary scrna-seq five type single-cell doublet copy

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival