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).

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 5 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 78

  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signatures with bulk HCC transcriptomes to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets and infer cell-type-specific gene expression.

  hcc tcga geo single-cell bulk microarray

• Integrating multi-omics data reveals the antitumor role and clinical benefits of gamma-delta T cells in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 40197136 · PMC11974128 · BMC cancer · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  High γδT cell infiltration is associated with favorable prognosis in TNBC but not in HR-positive or HER2-positive breast cancer.

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• 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

• Epigenetic loss of heterogeneity from low to high grade localized prostate tumours.

  PMID 34911933 · PMC8674326 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  Shared chromatin accessibility features among low-grade (Gleason pattern 3) prostate cancer cells are lost in high-grade (Gleason pattern 4) tumours.

  flash-frozen prostate ffpe single-cell bulk cyclic

• 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

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Has reproduction · 42

  PAAD patients can be stratified into immunologically hot and cold subtypes with distinct immune infiltration and survival outcomes.

  paad target bulk single-cell immunohistochemistry

• 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

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  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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• 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 activity is significantly increased in cervical cancer fibroblasts compared to normal fibroblasts and promotes their proliferation/differentiation.

  cervical fibroblasts tcga-cesc hela single-cell pseudo-time cell-cell

• Elucidating the Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications of Insulin Resistance Genes in Breast Cancer: A Machine Learning-Powered Analysis.

  PMID 40427728 · PMC12109394 · Biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A seven-gene insulin resistance signature (LIFR, EZR, TBC1D4, NSF, RPL5, SAA1, PGK1) yields an insulin resistance risk score (IRRS) with high predictive power for overall survival in breast cancer.

  tcga-brca metabric gse191127 triple-negative bulk prognostic neoadjuvant

• Metabolic reprogramming and prognostic insights in molecular landscapes driven by glycolysis in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 40707588 · PMC12290113 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  457 differentially expressed glycolysis-related genes were identified in ovarian cancer versus normal tissue, of which 30 are significantly associated with prognosis

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• 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

• 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

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct subset of COL6A3+ tumor-associated fibroblasts (TAFs) with matrix-fibroblast characteristics exists in GBM and is significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant combination therapy.

  newly glioma ffpe tafs single-cell spatial bulk

• 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

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

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• 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