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).

• Spatial organization shapes the turnover of a bacterial transcriptome.

  PMID 27198188 · PMC4874777 · eLife · 2016 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The E. coli transcriptome is spatially organized genome-wide: mRNAs encoding inner-membrane proteins are enriched at the membrane, while mRNAs encoding cytoplasmic, periplasmic and outer-membrane proteins are distributed throughout the cytoplasm.

  coli single-molecule fish time-resolved

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Following transient CD4 depletion, IL-21-producing Tfh cells do repopulate but are outnumbered by immunomodulatory CD4 T cells (Tregs, Th17), and IL-21+ frequency remains low within activated CD4 T cells.

  il-21-trfp cd44+ splenocytes chronically flow scrna-seq adoptive

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals the molecular signatures of prodromal and advanced α-synucleinopathy.

  PMID 41736854 · PMC12927100 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Induction of aSyn pathology in rodent brainstem at the early/prodromal stage triggers upregulation of energy metabolism pathways (glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid metabolism)

  m83+ brain spatial immunofluorescence cell-cell

• A quantitative proteomics analysis of subcellular proteome localization and changes induced by DNA damage.

  PMID 20026476 · PMC2849709 · Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP · 2010 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  A SILAC-based 'spatial proteomics' method can quantitatively measure the relative subcellular distribution of thousands of proteins across cytoplasm, nucleus, and nucleolus.

  hct116 silac silac-based immunofluorescence

• 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

• Spatial information matters: are traditional imputation methods effective for spatial transcriptomics data?

  PMID 41627342 · PMC12862982 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  No single existing SOTA imputation method consistently performs well across newer SRT platforms/datasets

  datasets srt same computational proposed

• Smart spatial omics (S2-omics) optimizes region of interest selection to capture molecular heterogeneity in diverse tissues.

  PMID 41298871 · PMC12662399 · Nature cell biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  S2-omics is an end-to-end workflow that automatically selects ROIs from H&E histology images to maximize molecular information content for spatial omics profiling.

  gastric colorectal additional breast xenium visium histology

• 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

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• Synergistic effects of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism and hypertension on spatial navigation.

  PMID 19013496 · PMC2685204 · Biological psychology · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Hypertensive carriers of the MTHFR 677T allele show significantly worse spatial navigation (longer distance to platform) than hypertensive C677C homozygotes

  healthy same buccal virtual blood mthfr

• 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

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

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

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  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

• SpaGene: A Deep Adversarial Framework for Spatial Gene Imputation.

  PMID 42146899 · PMC13176606 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaGene improves average PCC and SSIM and reduces RMSE compared to 6 baseline methods (SpaGE, gimVI, Tangram, VISTA, spRefine, stDiff) across 8 diverse ST-SC dataset pairs under gene-holdout evaluation.

  pairs nanostring st-sc osmfish_zeisel st-sc 5-fold spatially

• 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

• Comparative genomics reveals functional transcriptional control sequences in the Prop1 gene.

  PMID 17557180 · PMC1998882 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A BAC transgene containing Prop1 completely rescues the Prop1 mutant (dwarf) phenotype, showing all necessary regulatory elements lie within the BAC

  pig lemur cv-1 b-prop1 bac comparative transient

• Computational modeling demonstrates that glioblastoma cells can survive spatial environmental challenges through exploratory adaptation.

  PMID 31836713 · PMC6911112 · Nature communications · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Stochastic exploration of the gene-regulatory network structure confers enhanced adaptive capacity, enabling GBM cells to converge to new target phenotypes in novel environments.

  gbm glioma gbm-focused glioma-related transcriptomic differential gene-regulatory

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently associated with ReHo across three independent fMRI datasets.

  healthy six ahba neurons resting-state microarray wgcna

• Multi-omic identification of perineurial hyperplasia and lipid-associated nerve macrophages in human polyneuropathies.

  PMID 40849297 · PMC12375038 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of 37 human sural nerves (365,708 nuclei) defines 24 cell clusters and reveals unexpected heterogeneity of perineurial cells (periC1-3).

  sural rodent single-nucleus subcellular immunofluorescence

• 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

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  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