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).

• 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

• Monocytes Defined by Platelet Interactions and Oxidative Stress Signaling Underlie HIV-Associated Atherosclerosis.

  PMID 41823228 · PMC13055746 · Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Two monocyte clusters (platelet-monocyte complex [PMC] and CD14+ monocytes) contribute independently to vascular immune dysregulation in PLWH

  circulating plasma platelet-monocyte cd14+ single-cell plasma bulk

• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk bulk

• 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

• 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

• Deconvolving cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq samples.

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

• Trajectory-guided dimensionality reduction for multi-sample single-cell RNA-seq data reveals biologically relevant sample-level heterogeneity.

  PMID 42024616 · PMC13188987 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MUSTARD is a trajectory-guided dimensionality reduction method for multi-sample, multi-condition scRNA-seq data that simultaneously captures gene expression variation along pseudotime and across samples

  simulated covid-su covid-stephenson tuberculosis data-driven scrna-seq pseudobulk-pca

• 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

• singIST: An integrative method for comparative single-cell transcriptomics between disease models and humans.

  PMID 41838773 · PMC13008255 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  singIST provides explainable quantitative measures of disease model similarity to a human reference at the pathway, cell type, and gene levels

  skin ear simulated scrna-seq simulation

• Single-cell immunophenotyping identifies CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cells as a key immune population in cutaneous Lyme disease.

  PMID 41729083 · PMC12956012 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A clonally expanded CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cell population (subdivided into IFNGhi and IFNGint groups) is enriched in the EM lesion and shows an inflammatory, tissue-resident phenotype (GZMBlo/PRF1-) resembling tissue-enriched GZMK+ TteK cells

  whole-skin cd8+gzmk+ifnghi identified skin scrna-seq pseudobulk immune

• Reciprocal regulation of fibroblast-macrophage equilibrium governs skin integrity.

  PMID 41760904 · PMC13043295 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dpt+ fibroblasts are required to maintain skin macrophage populations in vivo; their depletion reduces CD64+ and CD11c+ macrophages

  facs-sorted skin dpt+ scrna-seq flow cellchat

• High-quality acinar cell isolation enables single-cell analysis of healthy and injured pancreas.

  PMID 42013858 · PMC13198085 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The DCTC protocol isolates up to 90% acinar cells from healthy wild-type pancreatic tissue without cell fixation or dead-cell removal kits

  healthy pancreas epithelial kpc scrna-seq pseudobulk velocity

• Development of a pediatric immune cell atlas and characterization of CD4+ T cells in food allergy.

  PMID 42025535 · PMC13105851 · Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A pediatric single-cell PBMC reference atlas was developed from 57 healthy children across 8 public scRNA-seq studies.

  pbmcs cd3+ cd4+ memory scrna-seq pseudobulk bulk

• 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

• Transcription and potential functions of a novel XIST isoform in male peripheral glia.

  PMID 41386982 · PMC12863056 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  XIST is robustly expressed in male peripheral glia, particularly nonmyelinating Schwann cells, across human heart and skeletal muscle tissue.

  heart skeletal atlas peripheral scrna-seq aggregated scatac-seq

• 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

• Intratumoral heterogeneity in microsatellite instability status at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41767255 · PMC12936829 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A novel computational (Snakemake) pipeline quantifies intratumoral heterogeneity in MSI status at single-cell resolution

  colorectal cancer aggregated msisensor-rna single-cell cnv-based

• Clonal CD8(+) T cells populate the leptomeninges and coordinate with immune cells in human degenerative brain diseases.

  PMID 41593242 · PMC12864034 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The human leptomeninges harbor substantial numbers of clonally expanded, tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells (ZNF683-high, CXCR6+, PD-1+)

  postmortem leptomeninges scrna-seq-derived leptomeningeal single-cell flow imaging

• Protocol to perform cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association study using scPrediXcan framework.

  PMID 41689808 · PMC12925207 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  scPrediXcan enables cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) by integrating deep learning-based prediction of gene expression from DNA sequence and epigenetic features.

  acinar individual-level geuvadis beta mlp-based personalized elastic-net

• Single-nucleus multiomic profiling of the aging mouse substantia nigra reveals conserved gene alterations linked to Parkinson's disease.

  PMID 41781332 · PMC13138337 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Single-nucleus multiome (RNA+ATAC) sequencing of mouse substantia nigra across four age stages (2, 6, 12, 18 months) yields a 40,125-cell atlas spanning 27 cell subclasses

  substantia allen five oligodendrocyte single-nucleus scrna-seq single-cell