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).

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• Spatially resolved osteoblast-traced transcriptomics uncovers TGF-β as a combination target with sclerostin in osteoporosis.

  PMID 41927532 · PMC13046724 · Bone research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Spatially resolved osteoblast-traced transcriptomics (lineage tracing + SLACS) identifies TGF-β signaling as a regulator of osteoblast activation state on quiescent bone surfaces

  dmp1-creert2 gfp+ spatial mc3t3-e1 spatially cell-type gsea

• 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

• The transcription factor HHEX maintains glucocorticoid levels and protects adrenals from androgen-induced lipid depletion.

  PMID 41519914 · PMC12891536 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HHEX is the most enriched transcription factor in glucocorticoid-producing zona fasciculata (zF) cells, conserved across mouse, rat, and human adrenal

  sf1-cre-high adrenocortical scrna-seq rnascope immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Impact of enteric neuronal loss on intestinal cell composition.

  PMID 42063560 · PMC13127327 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ENS loss in ret mutant zebrafish alters the non-neuronal composition of the intestine, with increased immune cells and shifts in epithelial and ECM-producing populations

  intestine ens immune phox2bb single-cell scrna-seq whole-mount

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Transcriptomics, regulatory syntax, and enhancer identification in mesoderm-induced ESCs at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 35977485 · PMC9644345 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Bmp4 treatment instructs ESCs to downregulate pluripotency genes and upregulate genes associated with formative pluripotency and fate specification

  escs naive facs-isolated freshly bulk atac-seq chip-seq

• 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

• Bacterial reporter-paired scRNA sequencing reveals cross talk between zinc starvation and zinc toxicity in macrophage antibacterial defense.

  PMID 41802048 · PMC12993976 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Macrophages starve intracellular E. coli of zinc to sensitize them to subsequent zinc toxicity, coupling zinc starvation and zinc toxicity in a single antimicrobial response

  monocyte-derived hmdm zntr-dual macrophages confocal high-throughput flow

• 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

• 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

• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• LMO1 expression in neuroblastoma cells reprograms tumor-associated macrophages to promote metastasis.

  PMID 41858882 · PMC12997303 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LMO1 overexpression in MYCN-driven neuroblastoma cells reprograms tumor-associated macrophages to promote metastasis

  tumors macrophage u937 zebrafish single-cell gsva conditioned

• Single-cell transcriptomics identifies Keap1-Nrf2 regulated collective invasion in a Drosophila tumor model.

  PMID 36321803 · PMC9708074 · eLife · 2022 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Follicle cell-specific Lgl knockdown (Lgl-KD) causes loss of apical-basal polarity and invasive multilayering of the follicular epithelium without long-distance metastasis

  drosophila single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• Mosaic partial epidermal reprogramming remodels neighbors and niches to refine skin homeostasis and repair.

  PMID 41617708 · PMC12960685 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A genetically engineered mouse model (Krt14-CreER; LSL-rtTA-EGFP; TetO-OSKM-mCherry, 'Epi-iOSKM') enables transient, reversible, mosaic OSKM expression in interfollicular epidermal cells without inducing pluripotency or teratoma risk

  epidermis sorted epidermal ife immunostaining single-cell pseudotime

• Distinct radial glia subtypes regulate midbrain dopaminergic neuron development.

  PMID 41699318 · PMC13061605 · Nature neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Rgl1 is the progenitor of the mesDA neuronal lineage

  embryonic developing wa09 bulk scrna-seq ligand-receptor

• Uropathogenic Escherichia coli invade luminal prostate cells via FimH-PPAP receptor binding.

  PMID 41507584 · PMC12872464 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 2D mouse stem cell-derived prostate epithelial organoid model was developed that mimics epithelial heterogeneity of the murine prostate

  prostate bladder immunofluorescence single-cell transepithelial

• Size-Modulated Mesoderm-Endoderm Divergence and Myocardial Cavitation in Micropatterned Cardioids.

  PMID 41837870 · PMC13248853 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Micropatterned cardioids generated from hiPSCs co-develop mesoderm-heart and endoderm-foregut/liver lineages, including a previously unreported non-neural ectoderm population.

  hipsc-derived crispr-engineered micropatterned scrna-seq whole-mount clearing single-cell

• De novo H3.3K27M-altered diffuse midline glioma in human brainstem organoids to dissect GD2 CAR T cell function.

  PMID 41492091 · PMC12948678 · Nature cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FGF4 supplementation during organoid patterning specifically induces pontine/rostral hindbrain brainstem identity

  hes brainstem day developing bulk immunofluorescence scrna-seq