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).

• SPP1(+) macrophage-driven interactions shape the tumor microenvironment in lymph node metastatic acral melanoma.

  PMID 42020397 · PMC13230793 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LN+ acral melanoma shows preferential SPP1+ signaling, including autocrine amplification within SPP1+ macrophages and paracrine interaction with S100A8+ melanoma cells via the SPP1-CD44 axis

  tumor microarray thp-1 a375 scrna-seq immunofluorescence western

• Integrative single-cell analysis uncovers distinct tumour microenvironment ecotypes and immune evasion across skin cancers.

  PMID 41636115 · PMC12869349 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant NARS2+NDUFC2+ melanoma cell subpopulation with reduced MHC-I expression is enriched in advanced-stage tumours and associated with worse survival and immunotherapy response.

  skin prognosis melanoma macrophage single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• Annotation-free prediction of immunotherapy response in melanoma using single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41758825 · PMC12948085 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AI-based predictive models built on unannotated scRNA-seq data (cell-by-gene expression matrices) can classify melanoma patients as ICI responders vs. non-responders

  cd45+ scrna-seq independent scrna-seq single-gene-level pathway-level

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• Clonal dynamics shaped by diverse drug-tolerant persister states in melanoma resistance.

  PMID 41776501 · PMC13162433 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MeRLin, a single-vector high-complexity lineage tracing platform integrating cellular barcoding, scRNA-seq, RNA-FISH, and computational analysis, was developed to track clonal and transcriptional dynamics in a melanoma PDX model

  wm4237-1 nsg bulk scrna-seq clonal

• 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

• 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

• Tumor reactivity assessment using clonal expression reveals tumor reactive CD8(+) T cell heterogeneity across solid tumors.

  PMID 42079667 · PMC13128579 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  TRACE, a clonotype-level CD8+ TRT classifier trained on an aggregated multi-study dataset, achieves robust holdout performance (mean MCC 0.84, F1 0.85)

  cd8+ expanded aggregated combined scrna-seq co-culture gene

• DAGFormer: A graph-based domain adaptation approach for single-cell cancer drug response prediction.

  PMID 41417875 · PMC12795466 · PLoS computational biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  DAGFormer constructs cellular neighbor graphs using diverse topological strategies to represent intercellular interactions for drug response prediction

  pan-cancer jhu006 scc47 pc9 bulk scrna-seq

• scSurv: a deep generative model for single-cell survival analysis.

  PMID 41429574 · PMC12797213 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scSurv combines a Cox proportional hazards model with a deep generative model (VAE) of single-cell transcriptomes to estimate individual cellular contributions to clinical outcomes

  simulated tcga melanoma renal scrna-seq bulk single-cell

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• A unique malignant cell type per patient tumor encoded in each cancer cell transcriptome.

  PMID 41884004 · PMC13010111 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster predominantly by tumor of origin, while non-malignant cells from the same tumors cluster by cell type independent of patient

  malignant non-malignant ovarian normal scrna-seq alternative paired

• scSurvival: Single-Cell Survival Analysis of Clinical Cancer Cohort Data at Cellular Resolution.

  PMID 42013315 · PMC13133615 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scSurvival, an attention-based multiple-instance Cox regression framework, models each tumor sample as an ensemble of cells to predict survival outcomes at both patient and single-cell levels

  simulated melanoma liver higher scrna-seq differential

• Enabling Single-Cell Drug Response Annotations from Bulk RNA-Seq Using SCAD.

  PMID 36762572 · PMC10104628 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  SCAD, a transfer learning framework integrating adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (ADDA), can infer single-cell drug sensitivities by transferring knowledge from bulk RNA-seq pharmacogenomic data (GDSC) to scRNA-seq target domains

  pan-cancer pc9 451lu a375 bulk scrna-seq computational

• Pan-cancer evaluation of regulated cell death to predict overall survival and immune checkpoint inhibitor response.

  PMID 38538696 · PMC10973470 · NPJ precision oncology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RCD score, defined as the sum of ssGSEA scores of 18 RCD signatures, quantifies overall RCD signaling in a sample

  tcga gtex scrna-seq cancer bulk scrna-seq transcriptomic

• PURE-seq integrates FACS and PIP-seq for single-cell genomics of ultra-rare cells.

  PMID 41565684 · PMC12881479 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PURE-seq integrates FACS sorting directly into PIP-seq barcoding reaction tubes, minimizing manual handling and cell loss for rare-cell single-cell sequencing.

  hek293t pbmcs melanoma bone single-cell infercnv gene

• Pharmacological perturbation of splicing elicits SMG1 reduction: Implications for cancer therapy.

  PMID 41623476 · PMC12857400 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 12 setups

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  Splicing-modulatory drugs MS023 and indisulam act as inadvertent NMD inhibitors by downregulating SMG1 protein levels

  4t1 tumor-draining arst panc02 mts tumor ifn-γ