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).

• LIMPACAT: Multi-omics attention transformer for immune prediction in liver cancer using whole-slide imaging.

  PMID 41511965 · PMC12788640 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  LIMPACAT, a multiple instance learning attention transformer, predicts immune cell levels relevant to HCC prognosis directly from whole-slide images

  hcc simulated pbmc tcga-lihc scrna-seq type deconvolution

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna

• 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

• Spatial multi-omics identifies a NOTCH3-mediated capillary-mCAF crosstalk driving immune exclusion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 42099451 · PMC13147954 · iMeta · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A high-resolution spatial multi-omics atlas of HCC (CosMx transcriptomics + GeoMx proteomics + pan-cancer scRNA-seq of CAFs under ICB) reveals coordinated cellular topography of the tumor microenvironment

  hcc cafs independent spontaneous spatial pan-cancer multiplex

• Tumor cell villages define the co-dependency of tumor and microenvironment in liver cancer.

  PMID 41723121 · PMC12932787 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Different tumor cell transcriptomic states organize into distinct spatial clusters, or 'villages', each supported by a unique surrounding microenvironment

  liver malignant non-malignant tumor single-cell immunofluorescence non-negative

• Computational analysis of multi-omics data reveals CXCL10(+) DC-Treg interaction drives immunosuppressive microenvironment in AFP-positive hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41854876 · PMC13038760 · Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  STMN1+ and AFP+ malignant cell subsets are enriched in AFP-positive HCC, while CYP3A4+ malignant cells are enriched in AFP-negative HCC

  hcc tcga-lihc scrna-seq immunotherapy single-cell bulk spatial

• Reinvigorating COTL1(high) NK cells via GITR signalling overcomes immune checkpoint blockade resistance in tsMHC-I-impaired tumours.

  PMID 41912896 · PMC13179135 · Nature cell biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A COTL1-high NK cell subset mediates immune checkpoint blockade responsiveness in tsMHC-I impaired tumours

  hcc sorted orthotopic multiplex bulk single-cell

• 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

• Identification and validation of prognostic genes related to glycolysis and M2 macrophage in hepatocellular carcinoma: an integrated analysis of bulk RNA sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 41766871 · PMC12935947 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  52 candidate genes were identified at the intersection of glycolysis-related genes (GRGs), M2 macrophage-related genes (MRGs), and HCC-vs-control DEGs (DEGs2).

  tcga-lihc gse149614 key hcc bulk immune cox

• 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

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

  intestine triple-negative dorsolateral dlpfc semi-synthetic spatial single-cell

• Humoral IgG1 responses to tumor antigens underpin clinical outcomes in immune checkpoint blockade.

  PMID 41593194 · PMC13004670 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PD-1 blockade induces tumor-specific IgG1+ plasma cell responses that complement cellular immunity and contribute to clinical benefit

  tumor paired single-cell bulk multiplex

• SiCmiR Atlas: Single-Cell miRNA Landscape Reveals Hub-miRNA and Network Signatures in Human Cancers.

  PMID 41691474 · PMC13042402 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SiCmiR, a two-layer neural network, predicts mature miRNA expression profiles from only 977 LINCS L1000 landmark genes

  tcga k562 pancreatic acth-secreting paired bulk scrna-seq-based

• PD-1 blockade plus tyrosine kinase inhibitor remodels the tumor microenvironment in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 41916996 · PMC13199584 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Non-responders to TKI±ICI therapy show increased neutrophil infiltration and enrichment of SAA+ tumor cells after treatment.

  arcc pre post-treatment tumor single-cell multiplex ligand-receptor