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).

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Single-cell dissection of chronic lung allograft dysfunction reveals convergent and distinct fibrotic mechanisms.

  PMID 41122970 · PMC12581678 · JCI insight · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 75

  CLAD harbors disease-specific cellular subsets including Fibro.AT2 cells, exhausted CD8+ T cells, and superactivated macrophages

  clad covid-19 ffpe end-stage single-cell single-nucleus integrative

• COVID-19 lung disease shares driver AT2 cytopathic features with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 35870428 · PMC9297827 · EBioMedicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  COVID-19 lung disease resembles IPF at a fundamental level, recapitulating ViP/IPF gene expression patterns, an IL15-centric cytokine storm, and AT2 cytopathic changes (injury, DNA damage, transient progenitor-state arrest, senescence/SASP).

  lung covid-19 interaction pre-clinical composite single-cell kaplan-meier

• Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cell Transcriptomes Reveal a Unique Genetic Signature across Different Types of Cancer.

  PMID 36232369 · PMC9569723 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Common genes shared across five cancer types differ from those found in nonmalignant tissue-resident T-cells for each subset (CD4-T, CD8-T, Treg)

  breast lung colorectal melanoma single-cell gene reactome

• Phased differentiation of γδ T and T CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of human cancers.

  PMID 34721945 · PMC8555559 · Oncoimmunology · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 44

  In tumors, infiltrating γδ T cells (predominantly TCRVγnon9) are quantitatively correlated with and aligned to CD8 T cells for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression, and response to immune checkpoint therapy.

  splenic healthy tumor syngeneic single-cell scrnaseq citeseq

• 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

  Has reproduction · 75

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

  p30 cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Genetic variation–based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on cancer scRNA-seq tissue using a pooled experimental design, achieving high recall at acceptable precision-recall tradeoffs in both high-CNV (HGSOC) and high-SNV (lung adenocarcinoma) cancers, even with extremely high doublet proportions.

  high-grade lung hgsoc healthy single-cell matched doublet

• Numb prevents a complete epithelial-mesenchymal transition by modulating Notch signalling.

  PMID 29187638 · PMC5721160 · Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 49

  Numb (and Numbl) inhibits a full EMT by stabilizing a hybrid E/M phenotype, acting as a 'phenotypic stability factor'.

  notch-emt-numb h1975 independent mathematical multi-cell sirna

• In vivo induction of activin A-producing alveolar macrophages supports the progression of lung cell carcinoma.

  PMID 36650150 · PMC9845242 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

  Has reproduction · 96

  Alveolar macrophages support lung cancer cell proliferation and contribute to unfavourable outcomes.

  lung llc c57bl sorted immunohistochemistry count flow

• Hippo signaling differentially regulates distal progenitor subpopulations and their transitional states to construct the mammalian lungs.

  PMID 41932885 · PMC13219436 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  A fraction (15-50%) of the distal SOX9+ tip progenitor subdomain is sufficient to direct lung outgrowth through branch bifurcation, providing a mechanism for lung size control

  lung whole-mount immunofluorescence single-cell

• Itaconate and derivatives reduce interferon responses and inflammation in influenza A virus infection.

  PMID 35025971 · PMC8846506 · PLoS pathogens · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Acod1 expression and itaconate synthesis are induced in mouse lung during IAV infection and correlate with inflammation and disease severity

  lung c57bl pbmcs macrophages bulk metabolomics histopathology

• Interpretable artificial intelligence based on immunoregulation-related genes predicts prognosis and immunotherapy response in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41048340 · PMC12491262 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  LUAD samples cluster into IRG-high and IRG-low groups, with the IRG-high group showing significantly better survival and greater immune cell infiltration.

  luad geo degs immunotherapy-treated bulk weighted ppi

• 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

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, supporting its use as a proxy for viral mRNA translation in cell types.

  monocyte-macrophage cd4+ kidney metabolic bulk single-cell codon

• Wx: a neural network-based feature selection algorithm for transcriptomic data.

  PMID 31324856 · PMC6642261 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  The Wx algorithm ranks genes by a discriminative index (DI) score representing classification power for distinguishing given groups, enabling intuitive selection of optimal biomarker genes.

  tcga melanoma lung head bulk single-cell rna-seq

• 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

  Has reproduction · 93

  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

• Mural cell-derived chemokines provide a protective niche to safeguard vascular macrophages and limit chronic inflammation.

  PMID 37652021 · PMC10588993 · Immunity · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  Mural cell-derived chemokines CCL2 and MIF preserve vascular macrophage survival and homeostatic function, generating a protective niche.

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• Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions.

  PMID 33743211 · PMC7951565 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  ChIRP-MS identifies 309 host proteins that bind SARS-CoV-2 RNA during active infection across Huh7.5 and Vero E6 cells.

  huh7.5 host lung chirp-ms chirp-rna-seq sds-page