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).

• Benchmarking tools for deciphering cellular crosstalk in spatially-resolved transcriptomics.

  PMID 41952215 · PMC13174004 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  No prior systematic, quantitative benchmark exists for CCI inference methods specifically developed for spatial transcriptomics across multiple platforms

  synthetic real simulated simulation spot-purity real-data

• SpaNiche: spatial niche analysis to explore colocalization patterns and cellular interactions in spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 42015285 · PMC13231777 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaNiche integrates smoothed cell-type abundance and ligand-receptor expression matrices via graph-regularized joint NMF, across multiple spatial views, to identify colocalization patterns

  lymph colorectal prostate cerebral simulated spatial scrna-seq

• A high-resolution spatial map of cilia-associated proteins in the human fallopian tube.

  PMID 42010243 · PMC13096173 · Nature communications · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  310 genes show elevated expression in the human fallopian tube compared to other tissues, the majority associated with motile cilium structure/function.

  fallopian ft-elevated tma comparison bulk single-cell gene

• Integrative multimodal transcriptomics identifies a cancer-associated fibroblast membrane signature for predicting prognosis and therapeutic response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41942785 · PMC13053443 · Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A PDAC-enriched myoCAF-c1 fibroblast cluster is closely associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and angiogenesis

  pdac myocaf-c1-derived tcga-paad scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Differential expression analysis in single-cell and spatial RNA-seq without model assumptions.

  PMID 41980775 · PMC13198004 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Common DGE analysis methods (Wilcoxon test, unweighted t-test, pseudo-bulk aggregation, SCTransform-style parametrization) rely on unnecessary simplifications and assumptions that are inconsistent with experimental data and cause false findings

  e18 simulated scrna-seq sprna-seq scrna-seq simulation count

• Cell neighborhood topology directs rare cell population identification.

  PMID 41912521 · PMC13199379 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RareQ is a framework that quantifies neighborhood connectivity (Q), a cell-specific measure of kNN-graph cliquishness, to detect rare cell populations from single-cell and spatial omics data

  downsampled pbmc brain simulated scrna-seq cite-seq single-cell

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

  intestine triple-negative dorsolateral dlpfc semi-synthetic spatial single-cell

• 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 · 7 setups

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  CanCellCap identifies cancer cells in scRNA-seq data across 13 tissue types, 23 cancer types, and 7 sequencing platforms with 0.977 average accuracy

  cancer testing sequencing unseen scrna-seq spatial

• Differentiation in the human urothelia is defined by distinct alternative polyadenylation.

  PMID 41533515 · PMC12937501 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  APA introduces a major layer of transcriptomic diversity during urothelial differentiation, largely independent of changes in mRNA levels

  urothelial urothelial-specific ureter hek293t single-cell poly fluorescence

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Multi-omics integration and machine learning reveal gut-immune signatures in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: insights from bulk RNA-seq, single-cell profiles, spatial transcriptomics, and experimental validation.

  PMID 41939867 · PMC13043422 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CXCL13, IL33, TLR4, and IGF1 are core IPF genes consistently linked to immune infiltration and fibrotic remodeling across bulk, single-cell, spatial, and blood multi-omics data

  lung candidate bulk normalized bulk ppi machine

• iS2C2: a cointelligent platform for mechanistic discovery of disease cellular crosstalk.

  PMID 42108258 · PMC13158306 · Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  iS2C2 integrates the S2C2 cell-cell communication algorithm with LLMs to generate biologically interpretable hypotheses from scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data

  single-cell algorithm domain scrna-seq single-cell perturbation llm-based

• SA2E: spatial-aware auto-encoder for cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41863296 · PMC13070677 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SA2E is a spatial-aware auto-encoder framework for cell-type deconvolution that does not require predefined cell-type biomarkers

  olfactory legacy breast brain simulated real scrna-seq

• Mutations in CHD7, encoding a chromatin-remodeling protein, cause idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and Kallmann syndrome.

  PMID 18834967 · PMC2561938 · American journal of human genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Heterozygous CHD7 mutations cause idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and Kallmann syndrome without the CHARGE phenotype.

  ihh additional chd7 sanger targeted rt-pcr

• 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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  Exploratory adaptation (stochastic gene-regulatory network perturbation) explains how GBM cells adapt phenotypically across spatially distinct tumor regions

  patient-derived low-grade tf-gene single-sample bulk differential gene

• Mutations in dnaA and a cryptic interaction site increase drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  PMID 33253310 · PMC7738170 · PLoS pathogens · 2020 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Non-synonymous mutations in dnaA are statistically associated with drug resistance (INH, RIF, SM) in clinical M. tuberculosis strains across two independent GWAS cohorts (China and Vietnam)

  clinical dnaa isogenic h37rv genome-wide structural deep-sequencing

• Mutations in mRNA export mediator GLE1 result in a fetal motoneuron disease.

  PMID 18204449 · PMC2684619 · Nature genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mutations in GLE1, an mRNA export mediator, cause LCCS1

  lccs1 laahd finnish healthy genomic microsatellite carrier

• Increased prevalence of hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal state and enhanced phenotypic heterogeneity in basal breast cancer.

  PMID 38974967 · PMC11225361 · iScience · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Luminal breast cancer gene expression signature is closely/positively associated with an epithelial signature

  breast-cancer-specific tcga ccle four single-sample survival genome-wide

• Decoding the Mechanisms of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cancer Stem Cells and Identifying Potential Therapeutic Strategies Based on Single-cell Omics.

  PMID 41771574 · PMC12951371 · Cancer genomics & proteomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells from HCC tumors resolve into six transcriptionally distinct subpopulations, including a progenitor-like CSC subset expressing EPCAM, SOX9, and SOX4

  malignant tumor csc six single-cell spatial copy

• 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