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).

• CeLLTra: aligning cell names with gene expression via a pathway-informed transformer.

  PMID 41652996 · PMC12881829 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Grouping genes into pathway-defined gene sets as Transformer input tokens (instead of using individual genes or discretized bins) mitigates the long-sequence problem and improves representation learning of scRNA-Seq gene expression profiles.

  tabula tumor-infiltrating scrna-seq

• FUNCellA: A Tool for Single-Sample Enrichment Analysis and Relative Pathway Activity Estimation in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data.

  PMID 42021835 · PMC13096679 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  FUNCellA integrates 7 single-sample enrichment algorithms with novel relative activation thresholding methods to identify active, inactive, and intermediate cellular states in scRNA-Seq data

  pbmcs bone liver blood scrna-seq simulated microarray

• 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

• TEAD4 and RXRA Regulate the Function of Nucleus Pulposus Cells in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Via the TNF-α/NF-κB Pathway: An Integrated Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq, Bulk RNA-Seq, and In Vitro Validation.

  PMID 41511606 · PMC12995935 · Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TEAD4 and RXRA play critical roles in IDD progression, likely regulating NP cell behavior and ECM metabolism via the TNF-α/NF-κB pathway

  differential il-1β-induced scrna-seq bulk gsea

• 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

• High-fidelity bidirectional translation between single-cell transcriptomes and DNA methylomes with scBOND.

  PMID 41887797 · PMC13138010 · Genome research · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  scBOND is a bidirectional dual-channel VAE framework for cross-modality translation between scRNA-seq and scDNAm that outperforms existing baseline methods (scCross, MAPLE) in both translation directions

  mouseembryo humanbraina paired umap differential

• 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

• Creation of a Single Cell RNASeq Meta-Atlas to Define Human Liver Immune Homeostasis.

  PMID 34335581 · PMC8322955 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Three independently generated human liver CD45+ scRNA-seq datasets (LACEe, Lnb, LCD45e) can be co-clustered and integrated despite differing sequencing platforms and processing protocols.

  liver pbmc integrated gene scrna-seq differential ingenuity

• Mapping the Development of Human Spermatogenesis Using Transcriptomics-Based Data: A Scoping Review.

  PMID 39000031 · PMC11241379 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of human testis reveals major transcriptional modifications occurring around 11 years of age, marking a transition toward the adult cellular state

  fetal neonatal prepubertal peripubertal scrna-seq

• Interpretable and integrative analysis of single-cell multiomics with scMKL.

  PMID 40770488 · PMC12328712 · Communications biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  scMKL outperforms SVM, EasyMKL, MLP, and XGBoost in classification accuracy (AUROC) across multiple single-cell cancer datasets

  mcf-7 t-47d small prostate 10x scrna-seq sciatac-seq

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RCC_LM tumors exhibit higher genomic instability (CNV score) than RCC_noM tumors

  right-sided malignant epithelial types scrna-seq copy trajectory

• 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

  simulated classical degs naive simulated bulk real

• BMP and NODAL paracrine signalling regulate the totipotent-like cell state in embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 41660012 · PMC12876259 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BMP and NODAL (TGF-β) paracrine signalling are key routes of intercellular communication that respectively enhance or diminish the totipotent-like cell (TLC) state in mouse ESCs

  escs esc scrna-seq cellchat differential

• 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

• 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

• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• A differential single-cell transcriptome atlas of left-sided and right-sided colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41844817 · PMC13111741 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MTRNR2L8 is markedly upregulated in RCRC tumor cells and is associated with poorer patient survival

  crc epithelial rcrc tcga-read scrna-seq copy gene

• Dissecting the immunosuppressive microenvironment of LAMA3 + malignant cells and SPP1 + macrophages in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41845425 · PMC13104401 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A LAMA3+ epithelial subpopulation (C3) enriched at the invasive tumor front shows strong EMT signatures and is associated with poor prognosis

  escc epithelial scrna-seq tcga-escc scrna-seq spatial infercnv

• 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

• Molecular signatures of cell diversity modulated by long noncoding RNAs in the human fetal spinal cord.

  PMID 42006319 · PMC13090696 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Three neural stem cell (NSC) lineages (NSC1, NSC2, NSCs) were annotated in the human fetal spinal cord

  fetal nsc2 scrna-seq scstereo velocity