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 novel oxidative stress-related gene signature as an indicator of prognosis and immunotherapy responses in HNSCC.

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus clustering of 74 oxidative stress-related genes identifies three distinct HNSCC molecular subgroups (Cluster1-3) with significantly different overall survival and tumor stage distribution

  tcga-hnscc gse41613 gse103322 prjeb23709 bulk single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Identification of Cell Subpopulation-Specific Driver Genes Reveals Ideal Candidates for Renal Cell Carcinoma Immunotherapy.

  PMID 42074110 · PMC13115843 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  25 immune-related candidate driver genes were identified from tumor, myeloid, and lymphoid cell gene regulatory networks (GRNs) using SCENIC and topological Q statistics.

  kidney lymphoid rcc tcga-kirc single-cell scenic genome-wide

• LIMPACAT: Multi-omics attention transformer for immune prediction in liver cancer using whole-slide imaging.

  PMID 41511965 · PMC12788640 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  LIMPACAT, a multiple instance learning attention transformer, predicts immune cell levels relevant to HCC prognosis directly from whole-slide images

  hcc simulated pbmc tcga-lihc scrna-seq type deconvolution

• Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2(+) cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 35547750 · PMC9065207 · Theranostics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

  tcga paired thbs2+ scrna-seq wgcna scrna-seq gsea

• Pan-cancer evaluation of regulated cell death to predict overall survival and immune checkpoint inhibitor response.

  PMID 38538696 · PMC10973470 · NPJ precision oncology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RCD score, defined as the sum of ssGSEA scores of 18 RCD signatures, quantifies overall RCD signaling in a sample

  tcga gtex scrna-seq cancer bulk scrna-seq transcriptomic

• Integrative bulk and single-cell transcriptomics link EZH2 to immunosuppressive programs and tumor-Treg crosstalk in castration-resistant prostate cancer.

  PMID 41710887 · PMC12909565 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Higher EZH2 expression is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in bulk PCa/CRPC cohorts

  tcga-prad su2c gse264573 gse137829 bulk scrna-seq ligand-receptor

• Multiomic and functional validation of ACSL3, a regulator of fatty acid metabolism, as a lymph node metastasis-associated gene in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41998631 · PMC13261843 · Respiratory research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A five-gene FAM-related risk signature (ACSL3, MCAT, NDUFAB1, OLAH, ACSL4)-derived FScore stratifies LUAD prognosis across multiple independent cohorts

  tcga-luad luad a549 lymphatic bulk scrna-seq spatial

• Proneural-mesenchymal antagonism dominates the patterns of phenotypic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

  PMID 38433919 · PMC10905000 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The four proposed GBM molecular subtypes (Proneural, Neural, Classical, Mesenchymal / NPC-like, OPC-like, AC-like, MES-like) are not mutually exclusive or independent of one another

  scrna-seq tcga-gbm gse131928 tumor gene pairwise principal

• 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

• CLK1 Promotes Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Trafficking and Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment by Activating Hippo/YAP Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41686262 · PMC13136879 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLK1 is markedly upregulated in immune-cold colorectal tumors and correlates with increased MDSC infiltration and CD8+ T-cell exclusion

  colorectal tcga-coad ct26 tumor scrna-seq bulk multiplex

• CAF-enriched COL4A6 promotes gastric cancer progression and stromal remodeling despite an inverse association in bulk transcriptomes.

  PMID 41735371 · PMC13031391 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  COL4A6 carries an inverse association (OR<1) in bulk transcriptome-based risk models despite being markedly upregulated and predominantly localized to the CAF compartment in clinical specimens

  tcga-stad gse66229 gse183904 paired bulk microarray scrna-seq

• Identification of Poor Prognosis-Associated Fibroblast Subpopulation Signature Genes Utilizing the Scissor Algorithm to Classify Colorectal Cancer Subtypes and Evaluate the Immune Landscape.

  PMID 41787974 · PMC13180509 · Gut and liver · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Scissor+ fibroblast subpopulations significantly correlated with prognosis were identified in CRC using the Scissor algorithm integrating scRNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, and clinical data

  tcga gse39582 gse166555 scrna-seq bulk single-cell cell-cell

• Decoding the tumor microenvironment and molecular mechanism: unraveling cervical cancer subpopulations and prognostic signatures through scRNA-Seq and bulk RNA-seq analyses.

  PMID 38482016 · PMC10933018 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a noteworthy subpopulation exerting a pivotal influence on CC differentiation and progression

  cervical tcga siha scrna-seq bulk rt-qpcr

• 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

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• Ectopic expression of BEX genes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  PMID 40811813 · PMC12830129 · Blood advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Bex1 (and to a lesser extent Bex4) is ectopically expressed in Pten-deficient mouse T-ALL blasts

  thymocytes thymocyte t-all normal scrna-seq rt-qpcr 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

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• bayesReact: expression-coupled regulatory motif analysis detects microRNA activity across cancers, tissues, and at the single-cell level.

  PMID 41657247 · PMC12884093 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  bayesReact is a novel fully Bayesian generative model for inferring regulatory motif (e.g., miRNA) activity from bulk or single-cell expression data

  tcga gtex stem embryonic paired semi-synthetic single-cell

• Novel fatty acid metabolism-related molecular subtyping and prognostic signature for breast cancer.

  PMID 41674979 · PMC12885896 · Translational cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A FAM-related gene prognostic model (FAMGM) built using CoxBoost and random survival forest was identified as the optimal model among 101 machine learning combinations, based on highest average C-index across TCGA-BRCA and GSE96058 cohorts

  tcga-brca gse96058 brca breast bulk single-cell spatial