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).

• Pulmonary organoid models demonstrate compositionally driven epithelial plasticity and immune polarization.

  PMID 41940331 · PMC13049529 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cellular composition at seeding (PD vs. BAL vs. Mixed) directs epithelial fate and immune polarization in organoid culture

  lung day organoid epithelial scrna-seq brightfield h&e

• A cell atlas of multiple liver organoids and the fetal liver based on scRNA-seq.

  PMID 41736863 · PMC12927097 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A unified liver organoid cell atlas of 217,025 high-quality cells was constructed by integrating scRNA-seq data from 15 organoid samples across 9 studies with human fetal liver data (5-19 weeks gestation)

  liver fetal endoderm-derived mesoderm-derived scrna-seq pseudotime pearson

• Uropathogenic Escherichia coli invade luminal prostate cells via FimH-PPAP receptor binding.

  PMID 41507584 · PMC12872464 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 2D mouse stem cell-derived prostate epithelial organoid model was developed that mimics epithelial heterogeneity of the murine prostate

  prostate bladder immunofluorescence single-cell transepithelial

• comBO: A combined human bone and lympho-myeloid bone marrow organoid for preclinical modeling of hematopoietic disorders.

  PMID 41734765 · PMC7618947 · Cell stem cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  comBO is a single iPSC-derived organoid differentiation that generates osteolineage, vascular, lymphoid, and myeloid compartments together

  hipsc-derived combo combo-derived healthy-donor flow single-cell confocal

• Patient-Derived Meningioma Organoids: A Reliable Model for Studying Human Tumor Pathophysiology.

  PMID 39941893 · PMC11817449 · Cancers · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A standardized, reproducible protocol can establish meningioma organoids (MEN-Os) from patient-resected tumor tissue without mechanical/enzymatic dissociation, using serum-free medium lacking growth factors or exogenous ECM.

  patient-resected men-os parent oct-embedded organoid brightfield h&e

• De novo H3.3K27M-altered diffuse midline glioma in human brainstem organoids to dissect GD2 CAR T cell function.

  PMID 41492091 · PMC12948678 · Nature cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FGF4 supplementation during organoid patterning specifically induces pontine/rostral hindbrain brainstem identity

  hes brainstem day developing bulk immunofluorescence scrna-seq

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• Protocol for generating and characterizing Matrigel-free prostate cancer patient-derived organoids.

  PMID 41955100 · PMC13091043 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A Matrigel-free culture protocol improves both take-rate and proportion of tumor cells within PCa PDO cultures compared to traditional Matrigel-based approaches

  pca turp ffpe organoid serial frozen

• Interferon-γ selectively promotes survival of alveolar progenitor cells in a human lung organoid model.

  PMID 41992061 · PMC13187038 · The EMBO journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A new human ALVO model supports long-term expansion of alveolar progenitor cells and defined serum-free differentiation into AT1-like cells, improving on prior HTII-280-selection/serum-based protocols

  alvos organoid-derived sorted viability scrna-seq immunofluorescence

• Bayesian inference of RNA velocity incorporating timepoints, lineage bifurcations, and count data.

  PMID 41860983 · PMC13021174 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VeloVAE significantly outperforms previous RNA velocity methods in data fit, accuracy of inferred differentiation directions, and transcription rate estimation.

  pancreas developing induced embryo scrna-seq

• Leveraging RNA-seq deconvolution to improve complex in vitro model characterization.

  PMID 40701251 · PMC12391696 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RNA-seq deconvolution can predict cell type proportions from bulk RNA-seq using scRNA-seq references, offering a useful characterization tool for CIVMs where single-cell methods are impractical

  intestine rodent duodenal neonatal bulk scrna-seq marker

• A human tumor-immune organoid model of glioblastoma.

  PMID 41505256 · PMC12969483 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iHOTT is an autologous co-culture platform integrating patient-derived tumor cells and matched PBMCs within human cortical organoids

  ihott sorted recurrent flow immunostaining multiplex

• Paneth cell SIRT1 deficiency increases intestinal stress resistance by modulating the gut microbiota.

  PMID 41826553 · PMC13076647 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a novel Paneth-cell-specific SIRT1 knockout mouse model (SIRT1 PKO, Sirt1 f/f;Defa6-Cre+)

  small immune facs-sorted ileum single-cell facs qpcr

• Glioblastoma invasion into different organoid hosts reveals cell-intrinsic and proliferative migratory programs.

  PMID 41959666 · PMC13059114 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GB cells invade both neural and endodermal organoid hosts (lineage-independent), whereas non-malignant neural progenitor cells show markedly reduced infiltration

  gbm1 gfp-gbm1 facs-sorted post-invasion image-based immunofluorescence single-cell

• 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

• CHD7 regulates otic lineage specification and hair cell differentiation in human inner ear organoids.

  PMID 36396635 · PMC9672366 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of CHD7 or its ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling activity causes complete absence of hair cells and supporting cells in inner ear organoids

  inner facs-isolated hescs hesc immunostaining scrna-seq western

• An in vivo and in vitro spatiotemporal profile of human midbrain development.

  PMID 41633979 · PMC12877092 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  By 22 post-conceptional weeks (PCW), fetal ventral midbrain tissue exhibits structural complexity comparable to adult tissue

  fetal ipsc-derived dopamine immunohistochemistry immunofluorescence droplet-based

• 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

  carcinoma hnscc cal27 oscc non-negative kaplan-meier western

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Modeling embryonic heart vascular plexus development and sympathetic innervation on a human heart organoid.

  PMID 41858891 · PMC12996818 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Modulating VEGF and PDGFβ signaling during EMO generation induces a functional, self-generated coronary-like vascular plexus (V-EMOs/P-EMOs)

  hipsc-derived d10cc v-emos emos immunofluorescence single-cell fluorescent