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 gene expression analysis reveals drivers of extremely early lymph node metastasis in breast cancer.

  PMID 41578129 · PMC12932634 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Identified 30 isolated tumor cells (ITCs) in a clinically metastasis-negative tumor-draining lymph node, representing the initial metastatic seeding event, spanning ~200 μm

  dissected same tumor xenium-derived bulk enzymatic whole-genome

• Spatial transcriptomics maps host-gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution.

  PMID 41792309 · PMC13171632 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Enzymatic in situ polyadenylation increases bacterial RNA recovery in oligo(dT)-based spatial transcriptomics arrays by up to ~100-fold while preserving host gene capture

  apc-deficient heart ileum fresh-frozen spatial high-resolution bulk

• Serial Spatial Transcriptomes Reveal Regulatory Transitions in Maize Leaf Development.

  PMID 41493197 · PMC13110159 · Plant biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An optimised Visium spatial transcriptomics protocol (two-step OCT embedding combined with OCT-Immersion First cryopreservation) preserves high-integrity RNA from fragile plant tissues such as SAM

  maize integrated spatial integrity dimensional

• Neuroscience in the era of functional genomics and systems biology.

  PMID 19829370 · PMC3645852 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Omics/discovery-based approaches do not eschew hypotheses but elevate hypothesis testing to high-throughput hypothesis generation and prioritization.

  developing hippocampus bac-transgenic fetal situ gene bac-transgenic

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution.

  PMID 41388990 · PMC12776951 · The Plant cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH was successfully optimized for wheat inflorescence tissue, enabling localization of a 200-gene panel to cellular resolution across 4 developmental stages

  microdissected cryosectioned wheat merfish-imaged bulk merfish single-nucleus

• A golden age of brain exploration.

  PMID 15660159 · PMC544547 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Over 99% of neuroscience literature focuses on only 1% of the ~15,000–16,000 genes expressed in the brain, leaving most brain-expressed genes uncharacterized.

  brain transgenic situ microarray bacterial

• New strategies in drug discovery.

  PMID 16671397 · PMC7120019 · Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A new integrated drug discovery paradigm has emerged combining clinical, genetic, genomic, and molecular phenotype data with cheminformatics, managed via informatics

  animal normal low-abundance mice situ microarray taqman

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

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

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  Multi-omic profiling (snRNA-seq + spatial transcriptomics) of human sural nerves identifies novel cell type markers (MLIP in mySC; GRIK3, PRIMA1 in nmSC; CXCL14 in periC) not previously described in rodent or human literature

  sural peripheral snrna-seq nerve single-nucleus subcellular situ

• 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

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic profiling of cardiac fibroblasts following myocardial infarction.

  PMID 41526391 · PMC12890913 · Scientific data · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Cthrc1+ Reparative Cardiac Fibroblasts (RCFs) are the primary driver of the cardiac healing process after myocardial infarction

  col1α1-gfp+ heart frozen bulk single-cell spatial

• Robust characterization and interpretation of rare pathogenic cell populations from spatial omics using GARDEN.

  PMID 41547856 · PMC12917120 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GARDEN identifies and characterizes rare pathogenic cell populations/regions in spatial omics by embedding graph-based dynamic attention into a spatially-aware graph fusion contrastive model

  breast anterior brain olfactory 10x starmap slide-seqv2

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• 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

• Genomic characterisation of a Fgf-regulated gradient-based neocortical protomap.

  PMID 16079153 · PMC4729368 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2005 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Neocortical progenitor cells show rostrocaudal gradients of gene expression rather than discrete domains/compartments

  neocortex dorsal cortex embryo oligonucleotide microarray non-isotopic

• Functional genomics of early cortex patterning.

  PMID 16515721 · PMC1431711 · Genome biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The neocortical protomap is established as continuous rostro-caudal gradients of gene expression in progenitor cells, not discrete compartments

  neocortex embryonic fgfr1-mutant cortex oligonucleotide situ microarray

• Comparative multi-omic analysis reveals conserved and derived mechanisms of fin and limb regeneration.

  PMID 41571662 · PMC12923738 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fin and limb regeneration share conserved proximal and distal blastema territory markers, DNA damage repair activation, hif1a-mediated hypoxia response, and sequential pro-/anti-inflammatory gene programs.

  polypterus axolotl zebrafish regenerating single-nucleus spatial single-cell

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  PMID 41680326 · PMC12971494 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct fibroblast population, ChP base barrier cells (BBCs, formerly type II fibroblasts), exists at the base of the choroid plexus, separate from ChP stromal (type I) fibroblasts

  lateral brain mesp1-cre chp scrna-seq multiplex immunofluorescence

• Lineage-specific, fast-evolving GATA-like gene regulates zygotic gene activation to promote endoderm specification and pattern formation in the Theridiidae spider.

  PMID 36203191 · PMC9535882 · BMC biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative RNA-seq of cells isolated from central, intermediate, and peripheral regions of stage-3 embryos identifies genes with locally restricted expression genome-wide

  tepidariorum drosophila rna-seq whole-mount parental

• The revolution of the biology of the genome.

  PMID 15040884 · PMC7091781 · Cell research · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Polyploidization and gene duplication are the major mechanisms increasing eukaryotic genome size.

  genome drosophila schizosaccharomyces gene est mount comparative

• De novo H3.3K27M-altered diffuse midline glioma in human brainstem organoids to dissect GD2 CAR T cell function.

  PMID 41492091 · PMC12948678 · Nature cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FGF4 supplementation during organoid patterning specifically induces pontine/rostral hindbrain brainstem identity

  hes brainstem day developing bulk immunofluorescence scrna-seq