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).

• PanglaoDB: a web server for exploration of mouse and human single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 30951143 · PMC6450036 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2019 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  PanglaoDB is a web server providing pre-processed and pre-computed analyses of published mouse and human scRNA-seq experiments through a user-friendly interface.

  randomly single-cell single scrna-seq cell-type orthogonal

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Atlases of Camels and Cattle Unravel Molecular Evolution of Digestive and Metabolic Systems.

  PMID 41632085 · PMC13067795 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Generated single-cell/nucleus transcriptomic atlases of camels and cattle across 54 tissues, identifying 124 cell types (78 in camels, 106 in cattle, 59 shared)

  camel bovine structural orthologous scrna-seq spatial scenic

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analyses reveal tumor microenvironment-driven proliferation of NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas.

  PMID 41957607 · PMC13200446 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  NF2-VS tumors comprise 12 major cell lineages with distinct TME composition between Gardner and Wishart phenotypes

  vestibular fresh nf2-vs fibroblast scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• scDecorr: feature decorrelation based representation learning enables self-supervised alignment of multiple single-cell experiments.

  PMID 42056283 · PMC13128840 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 1 setups

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  scDecorr learns robust cell representations of unlabelled single-cell experiments in a negative-sample-free self-supervised fashion using feature decorrelation

  datasets scrna-seq

• Tree shrew immune cell atlas identifies NR1H3⁺ tissue macrophages with conserved anti-inflammatory function.

  PMID 41957356 · PMC13223331 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A single-cell/single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas across 12 tree shrew tissues identifies 39 distinct immune and non-immune cell types, providing a reference resource for tree shrew immunology

  tree single-cell scrna-seq cross-species functional

• ICE: robust detection of cellular senescence from weak single-cell signatures using imputation-based marker refinement.

  PMID 41668152 · PMC12990438 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Senescence-associated marker genes show weak, non-specific expression across human tissues and cell types compared to canonical tissue/cell-type markers

  tissues pancreas pancreatic brain bulk scrna-seq train

• Spatial transcriptomics unveils immune cellular ecosystems associated with patient survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

  PMID 42010788 · PMC13102037 · Oncoimmunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  DLBCL tissues are organized into six recurrent, spatially defined cellular ecosystems (Cell-Eco) with distinct immune compositions, transcriptional programs, and neighborhood architectures.

  dlbcl cd45+ spots scrna-seq spatial scrna-seq cell-type

• GDSim: accurate simulation for single-cell transcriptomes based on the guided diffusion model.

  PMID 41978379 · PMC13076945 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  GDSim, a label-guided diffusion-based deep generative network, can simulate scRNA-seq data that closely reflects the true distribution of original data

  real simulated annotated scrna-seq subtype differential

• Distinct senotypes in p16- and p21-positive cells across human and mouse aging tissues.

  PMID 41162753 · PMC12669595 · The EMBO journal · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  p16+ and p21+ senescent cells represent largely distinct, non-overlapping populations across murine and human aging tissues

  hippocampus brain skeletal bone scrna-seq cytof velocity

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• 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

• 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

• scDEBGCL: a deep embedding approach based on bipartite graph contrastive learning for single-cell RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41981652 · PMC13188691 · BMC biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  scDEBGCL is a deep embedding method for scRNA-seq data based on bipartite graph contrastive learning, integrating contrastive learning, graph reconstruction, and ZINB-based data reconstruction losses.

  nine yan dpt scrna-seq trajectory

• MafB is a conserved transcriptional regulator of macrophage development and functional identity across tissues and species.

  PMID 41759510 · PMC7618887 · Immunity · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MafB is required for full differentiation of bone-marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) in vitro and for development of most RTMs in vivo

  bmdms peritoneal rtms irradiated bulk hashtag-barcoded intracellular

• Cell neighborhood topology directs rare cell population identification.

  PMID 41912521 · PMC13199379 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RareQ is a framework that quantifies neighborhood connectivity (Q), a cell-specific measure of kNN-graph cliquishness, to detect rare cell populations from single-cell and spatial omics data

  downsampled pbmc brain simulated scrna-seq cite-seq single-cell

• scDenorm: a denormalization tool for integrating single-cell transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41915012 · PMC13142155 · GigaScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Inconsistent delta-method normalization across datasets introduces biases (e.g., B-cell separation) that persist even after integration with Harmony, scanorama, or BBKNN.

  10x brain ucsc datasets scrna-seq integration snrna-seq

• PD-1 antibody-bound progenitor-exhausted CD8(+) T cells in lymph nodes boost PD-1-blockade anti-tumor immunity in gastrointestinal cancer.

  PMID 41951588 · PMC13237225 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells (CD8-Tpex, TCF7+PDCD1+) are enriched in proximal lymph nodes and proliferate at a high rate after ICI treatment

  esophagogastric cancer surgically tcga scrna-seq scrna reanalysis

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Tumor-specific but immunosuppressive CD39(+)CD8(+) T cells exhibit double-faceted roles in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 40961944 · PMC12629791 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD39+CD8+ TILs constitute a terminally exhausted, tumor-antigen-specific subset of CD8+ T cells

  memory sorted caix-specific cd39+pd-1bright scrna-seq bulk mhc

• CanCellCap: robust cancer cell capture across tissue types on single-cell RNA-seq data by multi-domain learning.

  PMID 40739511 · PMC12312500 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CanCellCap identifies cancer cells in scRNA-seq data across 13 tissue types, 23 cancer types, and 7 sequencing platforms with 0.977 average accuracy

  cancer testing sequencing unseen scrna-seq spatial