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).

• TEAD4 and RXRA Regulate the Function of Nucleus Pulposus Cells in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Via the TNF-α/NF-κB Pathway: An Integrated Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq, Bulk RNA-Seq, and In Vitro Validation.

  PMID 41511606 · PMC12995935 · Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TEAD4 and RXRA play critical roles in IDD progression, likely regulating NP cell behavior and ECM metabolism via the TNF-α/NF-κB pathway

  differential il-1β-induced scrna-seq bulk gsea

• 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

• A differential single-cell transcriptome atlas of left-sided and right-sided colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41844817 · PMC13111741 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MTRNR2L8 is markedly upregulated in RCRC tumor cells and is associated with poorer patient survival

  crc epithelial rcrc tcga-read scrna-seq copy gene

• Interpretable trajectory inference with single-cell linear adaptive negative-binomial expression (scLANE) testing.

  PMID 41533563 · PMC12802912 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scLANE models gene expression as a piecewise negative-binomial GLM using truncated power basis (hinge) functions with adaptively chosen knots, yielding directly interpretable multiplicative effect sizes for trajectory differential expression

  zebrafish simulated diverse trajectory simulation

• Single-Cell Differential Network Analysis with Sparse Bayesian Factor Models.

  PMID 35186014 · PMC8855158 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  A hierarchical Bayesian factor model using treatment-dependent latent factor loadings can construct gene co-expression networks from scRNA-seq data and identify differences in network structure between two (or more) biological conditions.

  simulated sars-cov-2 scrna-seq

• 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

• Functional module detection through integration of single-cell RNA sequencing data with protein-protein interaction networks.

  PMID 33138772 · PMC7607865 · BMC genomics · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scPPIN integrates scRNA-seq-derived p-values with PPINs to detect maximum-weight connected subgraphs (active/functional modules) via an exact Steiner-tree approach

  liver hepatocyte detected adipose single-cell differential protein-protein

• 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

• Assessing personalized molecular portraits underlying endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition within pulmonary arterial hypertension.

  PMID 39462326 · PMC11513636 · Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of PAH and control lung tissue identifies nine distinct cell populations with high heterogeneity in composition, function, distribution, and communication

  lung pah scrna-seq-derived endothelial scrna-seq bulk cell-cell

• Identify GDPD3 as a key regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and prostate adenocarcinoma progression via the LPA/LPAR1/AKT axis: transcriptomic and experimental study.

  PMID 41562071 · PMC12813044 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GDPD3 is upregulated in PRAD tumor tissue and its knockdown inhibits tumor cell proliferation, invasion, and migration

  prad tcga-prad du145 scrna-seq bulk wgcna

• 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

• scGACL: a generative adversarial network with multi-scale contrastive learning for accurate single-cell RNA sequencing imputation.

  PMID 41632596 · PMC12866930 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scGACL, a GAN integrated with multi-scale contrastive learning, is proposed to overcome the over-smoothing problem in scRNA-seq imputation

  simulated real-world scrna-seq scrna-seq clustering gene

• Single-cell immunophenotyping identifies CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cells as a key immune population in cutaneous Lyme disease.

  PMID 41729083 · PMC12956012 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A clonally expanded CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cell population (subdivided into IFNGhi and IFNGint groups) is enriched in the EM lesion and shows an inflammatory, tissue-resident phenotype (GZMBlo/PRF1-) resembling tissue-enriched GZMK+ TteK cells

  whole-skin cd8+gzmk+ifnghi identified skin scrna-seq pseudobulk immune

• 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

• A latent activated olfactory stem cell state revealed by single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling.

  PMID 41512864 · PMC12903091 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  HBC-derived regeneration proceeds via three distinct lineages (rHBC, Sus, mOSN) marked by sequential, lineage-specific transcription factor (TF) expression cascades.

  lineage-traced hbcs* icam1+ scrna-seq trajectory-based seurat

• Reciprocal regulation of fibroblast-macrophage equilibrium governs skin integrity.

  PMID 41760904 · PMC13043295 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dpt+ fibroblasts are required to maintain skin macrophage populations in vivo; their depletion reduces CD64+ and CD11c+ macrophages

  facs-sorted skin dpt+ scrna-seq flow cellchat

• 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

• OptiSyn: an interpretable, multi-omics-driven graph convolutional network framework for synergy-oriented drug combination design in disease treatment.

  PMID 41877167 · PMC13011277 · Chinese medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight AS-associated hub genes were identified through integration of multi-omics datasets (DEG analysis, WGCNA, scRNA-seq, Mendelian randomization, PPI module analysis)

  gtex as-associated tcm representative differential weighted single-cell

• 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

• High-quality acinar cell isolation enables single-cell analysis of healthy and injured pancreas.

  PMID 42013858 · PMC13198085 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The DCTC protocol isolates up to 90% acinar cells from healthy wild-type pancreatic tissue without cell fixation or dead-cell removal kits

  healthy pancreas epithelial kpc scrna-seq pseudobulk velocity