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).

• Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1β/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils.

  PMID 38358352 · PMC10903300 · Cancer research communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two main neutrophil subtypes exist in primary tumors: an activated subtype sharing transcriptomic signatures with healthy neutrophils, and a tumor-specific subtype.

  colorectal sorted integrated neutrophil scrna-seq bulk immunohistochemistry

• The AICL-KLRF1 axis supports CD4-CD8 T cell communication and cytokine competence in pre-exhausted CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 41851343 · PMC13121605 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Progressive expression of KLRB1, KLRG1, GPR56, and KLRF1 tracks CD8+ T cell differentiation stages (TN, TCM, TEM, TEMRA), mirroring the pattern previously shown in CD4+ T cells

  unstimulated cd3+-enriched enriched cd8+ flow sorting-based spatial

• Dynamics of severity-associated immune remodeling by granulocytes and macrophages in acute lung injury.

  PMID 42111184 · PMC13157102 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Granulocytes expand while macrophages are depleted as ALI severity progresses from intermediate to late stage

  bronchoalveolar granulocytes granulocyte immune single-cell gene pseudotime

• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

  admixtures cancer tumor bulk bulk admixture crowdsourced

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• 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

• PD-1 blockade potentiates neoadjuvant chemotherapy in NSCLC via increasing CD127(+) and KLRG1(+) CD8 T cells.

  PMID 37231145 · PMC10213055 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  NAPC produces higher major pathological response (MPR) and pathological complete response (pCR) rates and longer DFS/OS than NAC alone

  cd45+ ffpe scrna-seq cd8+ single-cell multiplex gene

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• Allele-specific immune gene quantification and expression analysis in single-cell RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41229397 · PMC12604667 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  scIGD is a Snakemake workflow that automates HLA allele-typing and allele-specific expression quantification from scRNA-seq data

  aida merkel-cell 20k myeloma scrna-seq

• A single-cell compendium of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies disease-associated immune cell populations.

  PMID 39744938 · PMC11684814 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Integration of public and newly generated scRNA-seq datasets yields a compendium of 139 subjects (193 samples, 403,973 immune cells) spanning CSF and blood across healthy controls and multiple neurologic diseases.

  csf scrna-seq trajectory flow

• 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

• PBRM1 Deficiency Reshapes an Immune Suppressive Microenvironment Through Epigenetic Tuning of PBRM1-KDM5C-IL6 Axis in ccRCC.

  PMID 41514194 · PMC13042695 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PBRM1 deficiency increases infiltration of immunosuppressive M2 tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and creates an immune-excluded tumor microenvironment

  vhl kidney pbrm1 immunodeficient scrna-seq multiplex crispr-cas9

• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• scTWAS: a powerful statistical framework for single-cell transcriptome-wide association studies.

  PMID 41820391 · PMC13121454 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  scTWAS uses a latent-variable expression-measurement model combined with a moment-based regression to more accurately estimate genetic regulation of gene expression from single-cell data, improving GReX prediction across cell types and datasets

  onek1k-derived onek1k-based immune brain simulated two-sample stage

• 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

• Identification of Cell Subpopulation-Specific Driver Genes Reveals Ideal Candidates for Renal Cell Carcinoma Immunotherapy.

  PMID 42074110 · PMC13115843 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  25 immune-related candidate driver genes were identified from tumor, myeloid, and lymphoid cell gene regulatory networks (GRNs) using SCENIC and topological Q statistics.

  kidney lymphoid rcc tcga-kirc single-cell scenic genome-wide

• Partial domain adaptation enables cross domain cell type annotation between scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq.

  PMID 42090457 · PMC13170964 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  ScNucAdapt is a partial domain adaptation framework that enables cross-domain cell type annotation between paired or unpaired scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq datasets.

  bladder kidney cortex frozen scrna-seq snrna-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

• Hierarchical cell-type identifier accurately distinguishes immune-cell subtypes enabling precise profiling of tissue microenvironment with single-cell RNA-sequencing.

  PMID 36681937 · PMC10025442 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HiCAT is a hierarchical, marker-based cell-type identifier that uses gene set analysis (GSA) scoring with markers structured in a three-level taxonomy tree (major-type, minor-type, subset)

  pbmc cord melanoma lung scrna-seq computational

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl