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).

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 100

  Single-cell RNA-seq enables unbiased characterization of liver cell states, developmental trajectories and rare immune populations that bulk averaging obscures, redefining liver cell-type mapping.

  c57bl liver whole-liver hepatocytes scrna-seq facs-based plate-based

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  Human primary GBMs contain both tumor-originated pericytes (T-PCs) and normal-originated pericytes (N-PCs) with distinctive cell-intrinsic features.

  cd45-cd146+ dissociated frozen cd146+ scrna-seq fluorescence-activated immunofluorescence

• 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

  Has reproduction · 50

  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

• Cell fixation and preservation for droplet-based single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 28526029 · PMC5438562 · BMC biology · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  Methanol fixation stabilizes and preserves dissociated cells for weeks without compromising single-cell RNA-seq data quality

  hek293 dissociated facs-sorted hek drop-seq bulk trizol

• 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

  Has reproduction · 88

  CD39+CD8+ TILs are a terminally exhausted, tumor-antigen-specific subset of CD8+ T cells within ccRCC tumors

  ccrcc tumor-reactive cd39 caix-specific single-cell bulk co-culture

• 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

  Has reproduction · 63

  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

• DAGFormer: A graph-based domain adaptation approach for single-cell cancer drug response prediction.

  PMID 41417875 · PMC12795466 · PLoS computational biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction

  DAGFormer, a graph-based domain adaptation framework integrating bulk and scRNA-seq data, predicts single-cell drug responses more accurately than existing methods.

  pan-can jhu006 pc9 a375 bulk scrna-seq

• 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

  Has reproduction · 85

  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

• A single-cell survey of Drosophila blood.

  PMID 32396065 · PMC7237219 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  scRNA-seq of Drosophila larval hemocytes across unwounded, wounded, and wasp-infested conditions resolves 17 clusters spanning plasmatocytes, crystal cells, lamellocytes, and a non-hemocyte population.

  drosophila single-cell quantitative bulk

• Creation of a Single Cell RNASeq Meta-Atlas to Define Human Liver Immune Homeostasis.

  PMID 34335581 · PMC8322955 · Frontiers in immunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Independent human liver immune scRNA-seq datasets can be combined into an integrated meta-atlas in which all datasets co-cluster, despite differing cell-type proportions between studies.

  liver combined normal differential scrna-seq integrated reference

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis is proposed to overcome methodological inconsistencies.

  breast ctcs nsclc neuroblastoma scrna-seq

• 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

  Has reproduction · 85

  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

• A single-cell compendium of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies disease-associated immune cell populations.

  PMID 39744938 · PMC11684814 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  Integration of public and newly generated scRNA-seq datasets yields a compendium of 139 subjects (193 samples, 403,973 immune cells) spanning CSF and blood across healthy controls and multiple neurologic diseases.

  csf scrna-seq trajectory flow

• huSA: a comprehensive database for multi-dimensional resolution of bulk, single cell and spatial transcription profiles in skin diseases.

  PMID 41719583 · PMC12923168 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  huSA is a publicly accessible database integrating data from 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets, including 1434 scRNA-seq, 63 spatial transcriptomics, and 1502 bulk RNA-seq samples

  skin scrna-seq single prurigo scrna-seq bulk spatial

• A single cell characterisation of human embryogenesis identifies pluripotency transitions and putative anterior hypoblast centre.

  PMID 34140473 · PMC8211662 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  The embryonic epiblast progressively transitions from a naïve to a primed pluripotent state as it develops from pre- to post-implantation.

  embryo single-cell logistic immunofluorescence

• Single-cell multiomics profiling reveals heterogeneous transcriptional programs and microenvironment in DSRCTs.

  PMID 38781959 · PMC11228554 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 76

  DSRCT tumor cells cluster into consistent subpopulations with partially overlapping lineage- and metabolism-related transcriptional programs across patients and samples

  fresh matched archived dsrct scrna-seq single-nucleus bulk

• 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 · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 42

  CanCellCap, a multi-domain learning framework integrating domain adversarial learning and Mixture of Experts, identifies cancer cells across all tissues, cancers, and sequencing platforms by extracting tissue-common and tissue-specific gene expression patterns.

  testing datasets tisch2 prostate scrna-seq simulated spatial

• WASP: a versatile, web-accessible single cell RNA-Seq processing platform.

  PMID 33736596 · PMC7977290 · BMC genomics · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 59

  WASP is a software platform for processing Drop-Seq-based scRNA-seq data generated with ddSEQ or 10x protocols, combining a Snakemake pre-processing pipeline with an R Shiny post-processing application.

  specified generic scrna-seq read reference

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

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

  Has reproduction · 96

  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

• 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

  Has reproduction · 80

  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