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).

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic profiling of cardiac fibroblasts following myocardial infarction.

  PMID 41526391 · PMC12890913 · Scientific data · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Cthrc1+ Reparative Cardiac Fibroblasts (RCFs) are the primary driver of the cardiac healing process after myocardial infarction

  col1α1-gfp+ heart frozen bulk single-cell spatial

• POSTN(+) fibroblast‑secreted small extracellular vesicles drive macrophage M2 polarization through BMP4/BMPR2/Smad signaling.

  PMID 41645751 · PMC12891935 · Oncology reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of two HNSCC scRNA-seq datasets reveals two distinct fibroblast subtypes: POSTN- and POSTN+ fibroblasts

  hnscc tcga-hnscc oscc oscc-derived single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• MitoPerturb-Seq identifies gene-specific single-cell responses to mitochondrial DNA depletion and heteroplasmy.

  PMID 41922875 · PMC13095666 · Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MitoPerturb-Seq combines pooled CRISPR–Cas9 screening (CROP-seq) with 10x Genomics multiome (scATAC-seq + scRNA-seq) to simultaneously profile mtDNA sequence/copy number/heteroplasmy and the nuclear transcriptome/chromatin accessibility in single heteroplasmic cells

  cas9-expressing heteroplasmic tfam-ko pooled tap-seq hybridization-capture-based

• A consensus approach to vertebrate de novo transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data: assembly of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) transcriptome.

  PMID 25009556 · PMC4070175 · Frontiers in genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multiple k-mer (MK) assemblies are more complete than single k-mer (SK) assemblies, showing higher reads-mapped-back-to-transcripts (RMBT) and higher CEGMA complete-gene percentages for all three tools.

  anas duck million random illumina read novo

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of dermal fibroblasts demonstrates culture-induced changes and variable persistence of keloid disease features.

  PMID 42058918 · PMC13123497 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Fibroblast culture leads to subtype assimilation, with in vivo heterogeneity persisting only minimally by passage 4

  dermal mesenchymal stromal patient-matched single-cell bulk qpcr

• Migratory Tumor Cells Cooperate with Cancer Associated Fibroblasts in Hormone Receptor-Positive and HER2-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 38892065 · PMC11172245 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HR+/HER2-BC tumor epithelial cells comprise four single-cell-defined functional (SC-f) subtypes: migratory, secretory, proliferating, and dysfunctional.

  hr+ epcam-sorted tumor tcga-brca droplet sidr-seq bulk

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• Protocol for single-cell optimization objective and trade-off inference.

  PMID 41790544 · PMC12992945 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  SCOOTI is a computational framework that integrates bulk and single-cell omics data with genome-scale metabolic modeling to infer metabolic objectives and trade-offs

  mcf10a serum-starved contact-inhibited zygote bulk scrna-seq genome-scale

• Lineage commitment of dermal fibroblast progenitors is controlled by Kdm6b-mediated chromatin demethylation.

  PMID 37602956 · PMC10548174 · The EMBO journal · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  E14.5 DFPs have a repressed transcriptional profile marked by high H3K27me3 and inaccessible chromatin at lineage-specific genes

  skin dermal single-cell chamber chip-seq

• Fusion of short telomeres in human cells is characterized by extensive deletion and microhomology, and can result in complex rearrangements.

  PMID 20026586 · PMC2847243 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Telomere fusion in human cells is characterized by extensive sub-telomeric deletion of at least one telomere, extending up to 5.6-6.1 kb

  hek293 mrc5 pcr single single-molecule southern direct

• Immunosuppressive contribution of tumour-infiltrating B cells in human intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and their role in chemoimmunotherapy outcome.

  PMID 40889886 · PMC13217081 · Gut · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  High density of CD20+ B cells in the peritumoural area is associated with improved disease-free survival in iCCA

  resected cd45+ scrna-seq peripheral immunohistochemistry kaplan-meier 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

• Unveiling the NEFH+ malignant cell subtype: Insights from single-cell RNA sequencing in prostate cancer progression and tumor microenvironment interactions.

  PMID 39759507 · PMC11695424 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant cell subtype in PCa with high expression of NEFH was identified, located at the differentiation terminal, showing higher malignancy and association with advanced tumor lesions.

  pca malignant tcga mda single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Sex-Based Differences in Cell Types and Gene Expression within the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

  PMID 41587266 · PMC13011956 · The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  ACL tissue is heterogeneous, containing 5 major cell types: fibroblasts, pericytes, endothelial cells, macrophages, and T cells.

  acl differentially study flow single-cell immunofluorescence

• Role of CTGF-LRP1 in impaired healing of cesarean section incisions.

  PMID 41764198 · PMC13066582 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A specific fibroblast subgroup (FB3) in niche tissue shows LRP1 deficiency associated with reduced extracellular matrix (ECM) synthesis capacity

  myometrium adjacent sections fibroblasts single-cell hematoxylin masson's

• DiSCO: deconvoluting spatial transcriptomics via combinatorial optimization with a foundational diffusion model.

  PMID 42101928 · PMC13155122 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 2 setups

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  Deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization (CO) problem of assigning single cells to spatial spots so that aggregated single-cell profiles best approximate observed spot expression

  sccube-simulated real simulation-based spatial

• 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

• ASCL1 promotes nuclear shrinkage in transdifferentiation by suppressing NUP37.

  PMID 41759523 · PMC12985393 · Stem cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  ASCL1-mediated transdifferentiation (AMp) of human fibroblasts to induced neurons causes marked nuclear shrinkage while cell size remains unchanged

  mrc5 ag22056 ipsc-derived embryonic immunofluorescence single-cell rt-qpcr