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).

• 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

• 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

• 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 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a key subpopulation that drives differentiation and progression of cervical carcinoma

  tumor tcga siha single-cell bulk rt-qpcr

• Co-regulation and function of FOXM1/RHNO1 bidirectional genes in cancer.

  PMID 33890574 · PMC8104967 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXM1 and RHNO1 are head-to-head bidirectional genes co-amplified and co-expressed in HGSC, regulated by a shared bidirectional promoter (F/R-BDP).

  tcga ft282 fte hgsc copy expression rt-qpcr

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

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  A nine-gene oxidative stress-related scoring (OSRS) model (AREG, CES1, CSTA, FDCSP, JCHAIN, IFFO2, PGLYRP4, SPOCK2, SPINK6) predicts overall survival in HNSCC.

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• 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

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

  normal er+ epithelial malignant single-cell spatial copy

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  HASCAD, a DNN-based cell composition deconvolution model, predicts the fractions of up to 15 immune cell types from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc bulk tcga-lihc harmony-symphony scrna-seq simulated bulk

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference profile-free deconvolution method that simultaneously deconvolves bulk tumor expression into cancer, immune, and stromal compartments and clusters samples into cancer cell-intrinsic molecular subtypes, outputting subtype-specific reference profiles for the cohort rather than for individuals.

  solid muscle-invasive ccrcc for bulk single-cell scrna-seq

• 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 pathways, with distinct prognoses (cluster 1 best, then 2, then 3).

  tnbc tcga-tnbc mda-mb-468 single-cell bulk copy

• Unveiling the immunometabolic landscape of colorectal cancer through PANoptosis-related gene expression.

  PMID 41601652 · PMC12832467 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A CPAN-index prognostic model built from 11 PANoptosis-related differentially expressed genes (CPAN_DEGs) stratifies CRC patients into high-risk and low-risk groups with distinct survival and immunophenotypes.

  crc merged hct116 bulk single-cell immune

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• Mammary cell gene expression atlas links epithelial cell remodeling events to breast carcinogenesis.

  PMID 34079055 · PMC8172904 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An integrated 50K mouse and 24K human mammary epithelial cell atlas (scRNA-seq) captures mammary epithelium reorganization across most lifetime stages.

  surgically mammary menopaused integrated single-cell scrna-seq mammary

• Machine learning-based identification of biomarkers and drugs in immunologically cold and hot pancreatic adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 39152432 · PMC11328457 · Journal of translational medicine · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PAAD tumors can be consensus-clustered into immunologically hot and cold subtypes based on CIBERSORT-derived immune cell fractions, with significantly different survival outcomes.

  paad degs bulk consensus tumor

• Clustering and machine learning-based integration identify cancer associated fibroblasts genes' signature in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37065499 · PMC10098459 · Frontiers in genetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Clustering of 31 CAFs genes across 868 HNSCC samples identifies two distinct molecular patterns (C1, C2) with different survival outcomes

  hnscc combined gse164690 tcga-hnsc ssgsea unsupervised immune

• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

  pubmed scrna-seq tcga basal manual scrna-seq bulk

• 5-methylcytosine RNA modification regulators-based patterns and features of immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia.

  PMID 38277218 · PMC10911375 · Aging · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Most of the 17 m5C regulators are differentially expressed between AML and normal samples and correlate with AML prognosis.

  aml bulk mutation copy

• Hypoxia-associated genes as predictors of outcomes in gastric cancer: a genomic approach.

  PMID 40129974 · PMC11931070 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A prognostic model built from five H1-specific hypoxia-associated transcription factors (EHF, EIF1AD, GLA, KEAP1, MAGED2) predicts overall survival in STAD, with high-risk patients showing significantly worse OS.

  gastric gene scrna-seq tcga single-cell wgcna cell-cell