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).

• A pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human bone metastases.

  PMID 41619722 · PMC12923970 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Constructed a pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of 62 human bone metastases (predominantly spinal) across 13 primary cancer types, with paired primary tumor and normal bone marrow samples.

  bone paired plasmacytoma malignant scrna-seq ihc infercnv

• Dissecting tumor heterogeneity in colorectal cancer: uncovering the role of BCL2L1(+) cells through single-cell analysis.

  PMID 41958675 · PMC13056825 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq identifies five CRC tumor cell subtypes, with the C4 BCL2L1+ subtype predominantly enriched in liver metastases and showing enhanced proliferation, metabolic reprogramming, and anti-apoptotic activity

  crc epcs malignant tcga scrna-seq infercnv cytotrace

• Single-cell profiling reveals distinct populations of tumor-associated macrophages and metastatic tumor cells in breast cancer brain metastasis.

  PMID 42034645 · PMC13247122 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell profiling of BCBM identifies 12 tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) subtypes and 5 metastatic tumor cell (MTC) subtypes with distinct transcriptional profiles

  brain breast scrna-seq tams scrna-seq bulk copy

• 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

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow is proposed, spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis, to overcome methodological inconsistencies in the field.

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639695 · PMC12958617 · BMC medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSC proportion is elevated in lymph node metastatic tumor tissue (BRCA_LNMT) compared to primary tumor (BRCA_PT)

  4t1 brca tcga-brca top single-cell spatial bulk

• 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

• Glutamine-mediated crosstalk between M2 macrophages and tumor cells via the SLC38A5/FOXM1/CNIH4 axis promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma progression.

  PMID 41715179 · PMC13020291 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Glutamine secretion from M2 macrophages to tumor cells via SLC38A5 is the core mCCC pathway upregulated in metastatic OSCC lesions compared to primary lesions.

  oscc epithelial tcga-oscc hsc-3 scrna-seq hdwgcna bulk

• FOXA1 mutations co-opt nascent transcription factor networks in partnership with androgen receptor to enhance prostate tumorigenicity.

  PMID 41621066 · PMC13050545 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXA1 mutations in a 874-tumor cohort cluster into missense, in-frame indel, and truncation subgroups, with indels concentrated at residues M253/E255

  prostate targeted single-nucleus scatac-seq

• Integrating single-cell and single-nucleus datasets improves bulk RNA-seq deconvolution.

  PMID 41895263 · PMC13106970 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  scRNA-seq references yield significantly higher Pearson correlation and lower RMSE than snRNA-seq references for deconvolution across all four tissue datasets

  adipose same fat-cell real pseudobulk single-cell synthetic

• PD-1 antibody-bound progenitor-exhausted CD8(+) T cells in lymph nodes boost PD-1-blockade anti-tumor immunity in gastrointestinal cancer.

  PMID 41951588 · PMC13237225 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells (CD8-Tpex, TCF7+PDCD1+) are enriched in proximal lymph nodes and proliferate at a high rate after ICI treatment

  esophagogastric cancer surgically tcga scrna-seq scrna reanalysis

• 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

• Single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals intra-tumoral heterogeneity and immunotherapy strategies in high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

  PMID 41907410 · PMC13018870 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of 17 HGSOC tissue samples reveals seven major cell types and extensive intra-tumoral heterogeneity

  hgsoc epithelial tcga gse165897 single-cell copy kegg

• Single-cell omics data-driven decoding of tumor clonal evolution through reinforcement learning.

  PMID 41998716 · PMC13224513 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  scRevol is an RL-based model that infers tumor clonal evolution from scRNA-seq-derived CNV profiles via a label assignment learning strategy.

  simulated lineage ovarian scrna-seq-derived

• 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

• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Carcinoma cell profiles are distinct for each patient, while diverse microenvironmental (nonmalignant) subsets are shared across different patients.

  tumour single differentially seurat-identified single-cell differential gene

• The landscape of responses to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in resectable Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog-mutant lung adenocarcinoma: Clinical heterogeneity and correlative immunologic analysis.

  PMID 42011021 · PMC13096693 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  KRAS-mutant LUAD patients show significantly poorer pathological response and inferior long-term survival after neoadjuvant immunotherapy compared to KRAS-wildtype patients

  resected resectable epithelial cd4t_treg_tnfrsf4 scrna-seq retrospective cnv

• Integrative bulk and single-cell transcriptomics link EZH2 to immunosuppressive programs and tumor-Treg crosstalk in castration-resistant prostate cancer.

  PMID 41710887 · PMC12909565 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Higher EZH2 expression is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in bulk PCa/CRPC cohorts

  tcga-prad su2c gse264573 gse137829 bulk scrna-seq ligand-receptor

• Multi-omics evaluation of cell lines as models for metastatic prostate cancer.

  PMID 41876625 · PMC13171877 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Substantial genomic differences exist between metastatic prostate cancer patient samples and prostate cancer cell lines, including hotspot mutations largely absent from cell lines.

  prostate metastatic su2c tcga somatic copy bulk

• InSituPREP enables 3D single-cell mapping of interaction-associated gene programs in the breast cancer tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 42109251 · PMC13158666 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  InSituPREP is a computational framework that quantifies proximity-associated gene programs across multiple analytical layers (binary contacts, graded distance, density, triplets, RNA velocity) in 3D single-cell spatial data

  breast adjacent exseq-imaged exseq-derived expansion 16s scrna-seq