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).

• Discovery and Evaluation of Biomarkers for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Subtypes Uncovers Patient Stratification and Targeted Therapeutic Strategies.

  PMID 41671401 · PMC13176827 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A set of basal identity genes (SMA/ACTA2, TAGLN, TPM2) defined by scRNA-seq analysis enables subclassification of TNBC into a subgroup termed true basal TNBC (tB-TNBC)

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• NDUFA4L2 regulates the progression and chemotherapy sensitivity of HNSCC by inhibiting PANoptosis.

  PMID 41787028 · PMC13087130 · NPJ precision oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Elevated NDUFA4L2 expression is associated with poor survival and chemotherapy resistance in HNSCC

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• Research and experimental verification on the mechanisms of cellular senescence in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 38435998 · PMC10909353 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TNBC can be classified into three molecular subtypes (clusters 1, 2, 3) based on cellular senescence-related pathway scores

  tnbc tcga tcga-tnbc mda-mb-468 scrna-seq ssgsea unsupervised

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• OTMODE: an optimal transport theory-based framework for identifying differential features in single-cell multi-omics data.

  PMID 41335419 · PMC12766913 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OTMODE, using an unbalanced Sinkhorn algorithm and Wald test, improves differential feature identification in single-cell multi-omics data

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• 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.

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• Deconvolution of the hematopoietic stem cell microenvironment reveals a high degree of specialization and conservation.

  PMID 35494238 · PMC9046238 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Integration of three scRNA-seq datasets using a custom bootstrapping-based clustering pipeline robustly identifies 14 endothelial subclusters and 11 mesenchymal (stage-specific) subclusters in mouse bone marrow.

  bone independent scrna-seq gene singler

• Evaluating imputation methods for accurate estimation of cell population fractions in single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 41503159 · PMC12770975 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Eight prominent imputation methods (MAGIC, SAVER, scVI, DCA, scBiG, kNN-smoothing, scImpute, ALRA) were systematically evaluated for their ability to recover the true non-zero expression fraction using simulated and real-world scRNA-seq data

  basal tracheal airway k562 simulated scrna-seq imputation

• 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

• FLASH-MM: fast and scalable single-cell differential expression analysis using linear mixed-effects models.

  PMID 41644528 · PMC12982622 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FLASH-MM produces LMM parameter estimates identical to lmer (lme4) up to the sixth decimal place while being 50- to 140-fold faster as sample size increases from 20,000 to 120,000 cells

  simulated same healthy female-biased simulated comparative single-cell

• Assessment of dispersion metrics for estimating single-cell transcriptional variability.

  PMID 41770747 · PMC12970974 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The variance-to-mean ratio (VMR/Fano factor) scales approximately linearly with increasing dispersion and is independent of dataset size.

  simulated manivannan lana-elola yuzwa computational scrna-seq

• 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

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genetic variation-based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on pooled scRNA-seq experimental designs in cancer tissue (HGSOC and lung adenocarcinoma) despite somatic variation.

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• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• Single-cell RNA sequencing of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast reveals cellular heterogeneity and tumor microenvironment features.

  PMID 41761191 · PMC13041279 · BMC medical genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  H19+ myoepithelial cells (H19+myoEpC) represent the dominant malignant subpopulation in ACCB, characterized by the majority of large-scale CNVs and high expression of oncogenic pathway genes and ligands (e.g., LAMB1, WNT6)

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• Human neuronal differentiation under Aβ exposure: a single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic dataset.

  PMID 41807428 · PMC13103403 · Scientific data · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A paired scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq dataset was generated from NPCs differentiated over Days 0, 7, 13, and 20 under baseline and Aβ 1-42 exposure conditions

  hipsc-derived hippocampal scrna-seq scatac-seq flow

• scDenorm: a denormalization tool for integrating single-cell transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41915012 · PMC13142155 · GigaScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Inconsistent delta-method normalization across datasets introduces biases (e.g., B-cell separation) that persist even after integration with Harmony, scanorama, or BBKNN.

  10x brain ucsc datasets scrna-seq integration snrna-seq

• Differential expression analysis in single-cell and spatial RNA-seq without model assumptions.

  PMID 41980775 · PMC13198004 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Common DGE analysis methods (Wilcoxon test, unweighted t-test, pseudo-bulk aggregation, SCTransform-style parametrization) rely on unnecessary simplifications and assumptions that are inconsistent with experimental data and cause false findings

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• 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

• Lorentz-regularized interpretable VAE for multi-scale single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic embeddings.

  PMID 41555918 · PMC12812404 · Frontiers in genetics · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  LiVAE, a dual-pathway VAE with Lorentzian geometric regularization between a primary Euclidean pathway and an information-bottleneck pathway, balances local fidelity with global topology coherence in single-cell embeddings

  single-cell same dapp1 benchmarking umap component-wise