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).

• Identification of Poor Prognosis-Associated Fibroblast Subpopulation Signature Genes Utilizing the Scissor Algorithm to Classify Colorectal Cancer Subtypes and Evaluate the Immune Landscape.

  PMID 41787974 · PMC13180509 · Gut and liver · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Scissor+ fibroblast subpopulations significantly correlated with prognosis were identified in CRC using the Scissor algorithm integrating scRNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, and clinical data

  tcga gse39582 gse166555 scrna-seq bulk single-cell cell-cell

• Ensemble of Time-Evolving SASP Gene Sets Identifies IGFBP7 and CDKN1A as a Potential Marker Pair for Senescent Fibroblast Subpopulations Across Tissues.

  PMID 41977201 · PMC13073673 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SASP genes are not uniformly expressed in all senescent fibroblasts but only in specific subpopulations, indicating combinatorial and heterogeneous SASP expression.

  wi-38 lung skin eye scrna-seq computational

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit.

  PMID 41501466 · PMC12820784 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammation-associated fibroblasts (IAFs), induced by proinflammatory FCN1+IL1B+ macrophages, produce profibrotic IL-11 and drive fibrosis in IBD

  intestinal colon pdgfra+ colonic scrna-seq xenium masson's

• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• POSTN(+) fibroblast‑secreted small extracellular vesicles drive macrophage M2 polarization through BMP4/BMPR2/Smad signaling.

  PMID 41645751 · PMC12891935 · Oncology reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of two HNSCC scRNA-seq datasets reveals two distinct fibroblast subtypes: POSTN- and POSTN+ fibroblasts

  hnscc tcga-hnscc oscc oscc-derived single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• CAR-M2 immunotherapy resolves renal fibrosis via revascularization and apoptosis of profibrotic Cxcr2(+) endothelial cells.

  PMID 41887221 · PMC13130657 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CAR-M2 macrophages (anti-FAP CAR + IL-4-secreting, 4-1BB/CD3ζ costimulatory domains) specifically target and phagocytose FAP+ fibroblasts

  kidney car-m2 macrophages uuo scrna-seq histology live-cell

• Notch3 regulates pericyte phenotypic plasticity in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41618002 · PMC12960917 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Murine tumor pericytes originate from normal tissue-resident pericytes that proliferate inside tumors

  aom crc pdgfrβ-creert2 notch3-creert2 scrna-seq facs lineage

• VIST: variational inference for single cell time series.

  PMID 41535949 · PMC12892444 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  VIST is a VAE-based method that decomposes single-cell gene expression into time-dependent and time-independent latent components

  toy drosophila aorta lung synthetic time-course latent

• Transcription and potential functions of a novel XIST isoform in male peripheral glia.

  PMID 41386982 · PMC12863056 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  XIST is robustly expressed in male peripheral glia, particularly nonmyelinating Schwann cells, across human heart and skeletal muscle tissue.

  heart skeletal atlas peripheral scrna-seq aggregated scatac-seq

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic profiling of cardiac fibroblasts following myocardial infarction.

  PMID 41526391 · PMC12890913 · Scientific data · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Cthrc1+ Reparative Cardiac Fibroblasts (RCFs) are the primary driver of the cardiac healing process after myocardial infarction

  col1α1-gfp+ heart frozen bulk single-cell spatial

• An integrated single-cell lung cancer atlas reveals distinct fibroblast phenotypes between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinomas.

  PMID 41577803 · PMC12920623 · NPJ precision oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammatory CAFs (iCAFs) predominate in LUAD, whereas myofibroblastic CAFs (mCAFs) predominate in LUSC

  nsclc epithelial macrophage caf scrna-seq copy gene-set

• MitoPerturb-Seq identifies gene-specific single-cell responses to mitochondrial DNA depletion and heteroplasmy.

  PMID 41922875 · PMC13095666 · Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MitoPerturb-Seq combines pooled CRISPR–Cas9 screening (CROP-seq) with 10x Genomics multiome (scATAC-seq + scRNA-seq) to simultaneously profile mtDNA sequence/copy number/heteroplasmy and the nuclear transcriptome/chromatin accessibility in single heteroplasmic cells

  cas9-expressing heteroplasmic tfam-ko pooled tap-seq hybridization-capture-based

• A multi-omic single-cell landscape of perinatal mouse skin maps lineage specification and reveals shared dynamics in human fetal skin.

  PMID 41998142 · PMC13144478 · Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Integrated scATAC/scRNA multi-omics analysis of developing mouse skin identifies gene network axes underlying skin lineage specification

  dorsal scrna-seq skin fibroblast scatac-seq scrna-seq spatial

• huSA: a comprehensive database for multi-dimensional resolution of bulk, single cell and spatial transcription profiles in skin diseases.

  PMID 41719583 · PMC12923168 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  huSA is a comprehensive, publicly accessible database integrating bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, and spatial transcriptomics data across 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets

  skin scrna-seq scrna-seq transcription cell-cell

• Single-Cell Mitochondrial Lineage Tracing Decodes Fate Decision and Spatial Clonal Architecture in Human Hematopoietic Organoids.

  PMID 41560697 · PMC13042525 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mitochondrial somatic mutations from scRNA-seq can be repurposed as endogenous genetic barcodes for lineage tracing in hPSC-derived organoids.

  hpsc hemo larry-barcoded pdgfrα+ scrna-seq mitochondrial cospar

• Sex-Based Differences in Cell Types and Gene Expression within the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

  PMID 41587266 · PMC13011956 · The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  ACL tissue is heterogeneous, containing 5 major cell types: fibroblasts, pericytes, endothelial cells, macrophages, and T cells.

  acl differentially study flow single-cell immunofluorescence