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).

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

  brain cortex allen lcm-seq lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• A comparative study of techniques for differential expression analysis on RNA-Seq data.

  PMID 25119138 · PMC4132098 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  edgeR performs slightly better than DESeq and Cuffdiff2 in terms of the ability to uncover true positives.

  brain neurospheres lymphoblastoid simulation single-end paired-end rna-seq

• Microglia maintain structural integrity during fetal brain morphogenesis.

  PMID 38309258 · PMC10869139 · Cell · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ATM-like microglia accumulate at two embryonic cortical boundaries, the cortico-striato-amygdalar boundary (CSA) and cortico-septal boundary (CSB)

  embryonic brain fetal embryos single-cell immunolabeling antibody-mediated

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Endothelial cell-specific Adgrl2 deletion impairs cerebrovascular integrity (blood–brain barrier).

  p30 cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Microglial Fkbp5 Impairs Post-Stroke Vascular Integrity and Regeneration by Promoting Yap1-Mediated Glycolysis and Oxidative Phosphorylation.

  PMID 41355597 · PMC13042415 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A post-stroke perivascular microglial niche (stroke-VAM) exists, characterized by low M2 marker expression and elevated glycolysis, OXPHOS, and phagocytic activity.

  ipsilateral cx3cr1cre peri-infarct ischemic single-cell single-nucleus immunofluorescence

• Systems Analysis Reveals Ageing-Related Perturbations in Retinoids and Sex Hormones in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases.

  PMID 34680427 · PMC8533098 · Biomedicines · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  AD and PD patients can be stratified by transcriptomic clustering into three subclasses with distinct gene expression and metabolic profiles

  post-mortem brain zebrafish bulk single-cell unsupervised

• Microproteomics: analysis of protein diversity in small samples.

  PMID 18271009 · PMC2743962 · Mass spectrometry reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Changes in gene/mRNA expression often do not correlate well with changes in protein expression, due to precursor cleavage, post-translational modification, localization, and variable protein lifetimes.

  lcm-dissected single few dense gel maldi capillary

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

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

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  p16+ and p21+ senescent cells are largely distinct, non-overlapping populations across murine and human aging tissues, with only rare double-positive cells

  young spleen brain single-cell mass velocity

• The jewels of our genome: the search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain.

  PMID 16733552 · PMC1464830 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human and chimp genomes differ by ~35 million single nucleotide substitutions, corresponding to ~1.06% divergence after removing polymorphic sites

  chimpanzee chimp population non-human genome snp high-density

• Novel approaches for identifying target antigens of autoreactive human B and T cells.

  PMID 19763575 · PMC2845891 · Seminars in immunopathology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD8+ T cells infiltrating MS brain and IM muscle tissue show clonal expansions consistent with antigen-driven selection

  muscle brain morphologically autopsy cdr3-spectratyping single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Empowering integrative and collaborative exploration of single-cell and spatial multimodal data with SGS genome browser.

  PMID 40233745 · PMC12143324 · Cell genomics · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SGS is a user-friendly, collaborative, versatile browser for integrative visualization of single-cell and spatial multimodal (scMulti-omics) data

  dorsal hematopoietic brain onek1k sn-m3c-seq scatac-seq spatial

• Prime editing in mice reveals the essentiality of a single base in driving tissue-specific gene expression.

  PMID 33722289 · PMC7962346 · Genome biology · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A PE2-mediated single-base (C>G) substitution in the Tspan2 CArG box causes cell-specific loss of Tspan2 mRNA in aorta and bladder but not heart or brain, mirroring HDR-mediated 3-bp substitution.

  zygotes aorta genomic aortae crispr prime quantitative

• Protocol for the generation of single-nuclei RNA-seq libraries and quantification of heterogeneous cell types activated during social interaction.

  PMID 39423127 · PMC11532268 · STAR protocols · 2024 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A protocol for dissecting mouse PFC, hippocampus, and cerebellum and generating snRNA-seq libraries can identify neuronal populations activated during social interaction.

  medial hippocampus cerebellum brain single-nuclei nuclei bulk

• The identification of a Distinct Astrocyte Subtype that Diminishes in Alzheimer's Disease.

  PMID 38502590 · PMC11567244 · Aging and disease · 2024 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A distinct astrocyte subpopulation marked by low GFAP, plus AQP4 and CD63 expression, exists in normal brain but is diminished in AD samples in both human and mouse.

  prefrontal snrna-seq frontal brain single-nuclei gene cell-cell

• Under the Shadow: Old-biased Genes Are Subject to Weak Purifying Selection at Both the Tissue- and Cell Type-Specific Levels.

  PMID 41092135 · PMC12569596 · Genome biology and evolution · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Age-related decrease in transcriptome conservation (ADICT) is commonly found in ageing tissues of nonmammalian species (chicken brain, killifish liver and skin, fruit fly brain).

  gallus nothobranchius drosophila heterocephalus bulk single-cell

• Celline: a flexible tool for one-step retrieval and integrative analysis of public single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41458999 · PMC12738925 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Celline is a Python package executing an entire scRNA-seq workflow (retrieval, preprocessing, integration, analysis) using single-line commands per step

  mus brain integrated homo droplet-based scrna-seq cell-type

• Social complexity, life-history and lineage influence the molecular basis of castes in vespid wasps.

  PMID 36828829 · PMC9958023 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A shared genetic toolkit of caste-associated genes exists across vespid wasp species spanning different levels of social complexity

  vespid single-copy brain caste-biased bulk orthology principal

• Optimal scaling of digital transcriptomes.

  PMID 24223126 · PMC3819321 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fifteen existing and novel transcript-count normalization algorithms can be compared with two novel, mutually independent metrics: the number of "uniform" genes (sufficiently low coefficient of variation after normalization) and low average Spearman correlation between normalized expression profiles of gene pairs.

  tissues bodymap mapped 16-sample bulk read transcript

• Single nucleotide extension technology for quantitative site-specific evaluation of metC/C in GC-rich regions.

  PMID 15958788 · PMC1150895 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  SNaPshot primers with mismatches to upstream bisulfite-induced C/T or G/A polymorphisms produce a position-dependent biasing effect of up to 70%, decreasing as the mismatch moves farther upstream of the target cytosine

  comt synthetic genomic snapshot

• Paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia and epilepsy is due to mutations in SLC2A1, encoding the glucose transporter GLUT1.

  PMID 18577546 · PMC2442425 · Brain : a journal of neurology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Co-occurring PED and epilepsy can be caused by autosomal dominant heterozygous mutations in SLC2A1, encoding the glucose transporter GLUT1

  family genomic xenopus patients genome-wide pcr glucose