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).

• Deep single-cell decoding of human pancreatic islets reveals T2D β-cell gene expression defects.

  PMID 41986506 · PMC13226668 · The EMBO journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptome profiling of 245,878 islet cells from 48 donors (ND/PD/T2D) identifies 14 distinct, robust islet cell types detected in every donor

  pancreatic aggregated endoc-βh3 subset droplet-based pseudobulk unsupervised

• A spatially resolved human glioblastoma atlas reveals distinct cellular and molecular patterns of anatomical niches.

  PMID 41714633 · PMC13031279 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GBM exhibits distinct cellular and molecular patterns organized by anatomical niche, with malignant, vascular, and immune compartments showing region-specific spatial associations

  gbm glioma single-cell scrna-seq cite-seq spatial

• Single-Cell RNA Analysis of Murine Osteosarcoma Uncovers Skp2 Function in Metastasis, Genomic Instability, and Immune Activation and Reveals Additional Target Pathways.

  PMID 41877584 · PMC13103941 · Cancer research communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Skp2 KO improves survival, drives apoptosis, and induces antitumor immunity in Rb1/Trp53-deficient murine osteosarcoma

  tumors same osteosarcoma skp2 scrna-seq mutation copy-number

• 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

  e18 simulated scrna-seq sprna-seq scrna-seq simulation count

• A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood.

  PMID 32396065 · PMC7237219 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scRNA-seq of Drosophila larval hemocytes across unwounded, wounded, and wasp-infested conditions resolves 17 clusters spanning plasmatocytes, crystal cells, lamellocytes, and a non-hemocyte population.

  drosophila single-cell quantitative bulk

• Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability.

  PMID 41949281 · PMC13061419 · eLife · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Human marker genes are less effective in macaques and vice versa, showing limited transferability of markers across species.

  ipsc-derived day integrated ipscs scrna-seq flow immunofluorescence

• scPASU: A computational protocol for quantifying polyadenylation site usage and alternative polyadenylation from 3' scRNA-seq data.

  PMID 42085187 · PMC13157062 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scPASU is a Snakemake-based workflow that quantifies APA from standard 3′ scRNA-seq data without requiring specialized library preparation

  ureter processed scrna-seq read poly

• scGACL: a generative adversarial network with multi-scale contrastive learning for accurate single-cell RNA sequencing imputation.

  PMID 41632596 · PMC12866930 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scGACL, a GAN integrated with multi-scale contrastive learning, is proposed to overcome the over-smoothing problem in scRNA-seq imputation

  simulated real-world scrna-seq scrna-seq clustering gene

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• Cell type-specific eQTL analysis of COVID-19 based on single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41064594 · PMC12501775 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell eQTL analysis across eight immune cell types identified 2593 genes whose expression is significantly associated with common genetic polymorphisms, with most genes showing cell type-specific effects

  pbmcs eight pbmc monocytes scrna-seq genetic cis-eqtl

• Functional module detection through integration of single-cell RNA sequencing data with protein-protein interaction networks.

  PMID 33138772 · PMC7607865 · BMC genomics · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scPPIN integrates scRNA-seq-derived p-values with PPINs to detect maximum-weight connected subgraphs (active/functional modules) via an exact Steiner-tree approach

  liver hepatocyte detected adipose single-cell differential protein-protein

• 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

• Single-cell multiome and enhancer connectome of human retinal pigment epithelium and choroid nominate causal variants in macular degeneration.

  PMID 41528844 · PMC12971065 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a single-cell gene expression and chromatin accessibility (multiome) atlas of human RPE and choroid from control and AMD eyes

  rpe-choroid rpe arpe-19 scatac-seq joint h3k27ac activity-by-contact

• Single-Cell Mitochondrial Lineage Tracing Decodes Fate Decision and Spatial Clonal Architecture in Human Hematopoietic Organoids.

  PMID 41560697 · PMC13042525 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mitochondrial somatic mutations from scRNA-seq can be repurposed as endogenous genetic barcodes for lineage tracing in hPSC-derived organoids.

  hpsc hemo larry-barcoded pdgfrα+ scrna-seq mitochondrial cospar

• scLong: a billion-parameter foundation model for capturing long-range gene context in single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639087 · PMC12982784 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  scLong performs self-attention across all ~27,874 human genes, including lowly expressed ones, to capture long-range gene dependencies missed by models restricted to highly expressed gene subsets

  million norman self-supervised transcriptional genetic

• HIV-seq reveals gene expression differences between HIV-transcribing cells from viremic and suppressed people with HIV.

  PMID 41776157 · PMC12957429 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  HIV-seq (10x 5' scRNA-seq spiked with HIV-specific capture primers targeting R-U5-pre-gag, pol, tat-rev exon2, Psi, and RRE) increases detection of HIV RNA+ cells and HIV transcripts per cell compared to conventional 5' scRNA-seq

  cd4+ cd8+ pbmcs scrna-seq cite-seq differential

• Bacterial reporter-paired scRNA sequencing reveals cross talk between zinc starvation and zinc toxicity in macrophage antibacterial defense.

  PMID 41802048 · PMC12993976 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Macrophages starve intracellular E. coli of zinc to sensitize them to subsequent zinc toxicity, coupling zinc starvation and zinc toxicity in a single antimicrobial response

  monocyte-derived hmdm zntr-dual macrophages confocal high-throughput flow

• Identifying clinically relevant cell state interactions in the tumor microenvironment of IDH-mutant gliomas using CSI-TME.

  PMID 41807578 · PMC13230996 · Molecular systems biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CSI-TME is a computational pipeline that deconvolves bulk tumor RNA-seq into cell-type-specific expression (via CODEFACS), infers transcriptional states per cell type via ICA, and identifies IC pairs from two cell types whose joint activity is associated with survival via Cox regression

  idh-mutant tcga cgga deconvolved scrna-seq bulk independent

• Cell type-specific network analysis in Diversity Outbred mice identifies genes potentially responsible for human bone mineral density GWAS associations.

  PMID 41811178 · PMC12978698 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell type-specific Bayesian and co-expression networks generated from BMSC-OB scRNA-seq data in Diversity Outbred mice can prioritize and contextualize genes underlying human BMD GWAS associations

  bmsc-ob genes mesenchymal gtex scrna-seq cellect iterativewgcna

• 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