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).

• TE-SCALE: a comprehensive database for exploring transposable element expression across human cancers at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41296555 · PMC12807651 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TE-SCALE is a comprehensive single-cell database integrating TE expression across 20 human cancer types and 12 tissue origins

  tumor quality-controlled scrna-seq metacells scrna-seq subfamily automated

• Integrative transcriptomics and single-cell transcriptomics analyses reveal potential biomarkers and mechanisms of action in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

  PMID 40520228 · PMC12162626 · Frontiers in genetics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ENTPD1, SERPINA1, and TACSTD2 are potential transcriptomic biomarkers for PTC

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• Identification of cycling regulatory T cell precursors as conductors of immune escape during breast carcinoma progression.

  PMID 41997138 · PMC13213619 · Cancer cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel proliferative Treg precursor state, cycling Treg (cycTreg: FOXP3^int, MKI67^hi, IKZF2/4^int-hi), is absent in normal breast, low in DCIS, and strongly expanded in IBC

  normal mammary dcis tumor-draining scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• 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

• Notch3 regulates pericyte phenotypic plasticity in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41618002 · PMC12960917 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Murine tumor pericytes originate from normal tissue-resident pericytes that proliferate inside tumors

  aom crc pdgfrβ-creert2 notch3-creert2 scrna-seq facs lineage

• Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal That TXNIP and BIRC3 Contribute to Human Prostate Tumor Progression.

  PMID 41972735 · PMC13072731 · Cells · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TXNIP and BIRC3 are established as spatially restricted tumor-niche genes associated with metabolic stress and inflammatory survival pathways

  prostate tcga-prad integration single-cell spatial pseudotime

• 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

• Deep-Learning Tool ScVital Enables Species-Agnostic Integration of Cancer Cell States.

  PMID 41223329 · PMC13053053 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  scVital is a variational autoencoder with an adversarially trained discriminator that embeds scRNA-seq data from different species into a species-agnostic latent space to overcome batch effect.

  pbmc normal pancreatic lung scrna-seq

• 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

• 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)

  tumor hnacc epithelial accb single-cell scrna-seq copy

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of human skin anatomy.

  PMID 41872488 · PMC13083264 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH-based spatial atlas of ~1.2 million cells resolves 45 cell types across 114 samples and 15 anatomic sites in normal human skin

  normal skin gtex matched merfish scrna-seq bulk

• Single cell multiomics revealed fibrotic trajectories of endometrial cells and interaction with the pro-fibrotic macrophages in intrauterine adhesion.

  PMID 41947225 · PMC13188631 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human IUA endometrium contains a novel ACTA2+KRT8+ myofibrotic-epithelial subpopulation and an ACTA2+CD31+ myofibrotic-endothelial subpopulation, in addition to myofibroblasts

  endometrial iua scrna-seq snatac-seq spatial

• Multi-Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals That EREG-Driven TME Crosstalk Defines Anti-EGFR Response in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 42043480 · PMC13115984 · Cancer medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EGFRI eligibility (defined by left-sidedness, RAS/BRAF wild-type, MSS) stratifies cancer cell transcriptomic characteristics more strongly than sidedness alone.

  crc epcam+ aggregated cancer scrna-seq copy pseudobulk

• 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

• Gene regulatory network transitions reveal the central transcription factors in lung adenocarcinoma progression.

  PMID 41559111 · PMC12873405 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  NR2F1 is a central transcription factor in LUAD progression, identified independently through GRN architecture transitions and gene regulation dynamics analysis

  luad epithelial myeloid nr2f1 single-cell gene binding

• Comprehensive analysis of the causal risk factor from hypertension associated with prognosis and therapeutic response in renal cell carcinoma by multi-omics analysis and validation.

  PMID 41680825 · PMC12998095 · Biology direct · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 48-gene cross-species hypertension (HTN) gene module identified from human and SHR rat scRNA-seq can classify ccRCC patients into two molecular subgroups with distinct survival and targeted therapy response

  aortic spontaneously tcga icgc single-cell bulk summary-data-based

• KRT15 identified by scRNA-Seq and machine learning as stemness regulator and prognostic biomarker in ESCC.

  PMID 41907411 · PMC13018899 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant epithelial subpopulation (Cluster 0) with the highest CytoTRACE stemness potential and highest EMT activity exists in ESCC scRNA-seq data

  escc degs eca109 kyse180 scrna-seq machine immunohistochemistry

• Integrative multimodal transcriptomics identifies a cancer-associated fibroblast membrane signature for predicting prognosis and therapeutic response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41942785 · PMC13053443 · Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A PDAC-enriched myoCAF-c1 fibroblast cluster is closely associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and angiogenesis

  pdac myocaf-c1-derived tcga-paad scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD146 (MCAM) is a superior surface marker for sorting GBM pericytes, labeling nearly all PDGFRβ+ pericytes with strong specificity, unlike NG2 which labels fewer vessel-associated pericytes.

  facs-sorted frozen dissociated scrna-seq scrna-seq immunofluorescence fluorescence-activated