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).

• Clustering and machine learning-based integration identify cancer associated fibroblasts genes' signature in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37065499 · PMC10098459 · Frontiers in genetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Clustering of 31 CAFs genes across 868 HNSCC samples identifies two distinct molecular patterns (C1, C2) with different survival outcomes

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• Proneural-mesenchymal antagonism dominates the patterns of phenotypic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.

  PMID 38433919 · PMC10905000 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The four proposed GBM molecular subtypes (Proneural, Neural, Classical, Mesenchymal / NPC-like, OPC-like, AC-like, MES-like) are not mutually exclusive or independent of one another

  scrna-seq tcga-gbm gse131928 tumor gene pairwise principal

• A systems-level analysis of the mutually antagonistic roles of RKIP and BACH1 in dynamics of cancer cell plasticity.

  PMID 37963558 · PMC10645512 · Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RKIP and BACH1 are negatively correlated with each other across most cancer types in TCGA

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• 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

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• Activity of distinct growth factor receptor network components in breast tumors uncovers two biologically relevant subtypes.

  PMID 28446242 · PMC5406893 · Genome medicine · 2017 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Breast tumors exhibit two discrete GFRN activity phenotypes: a 'survival phenotype' with concordant HER2/IGF1R/AKT activation and a 'growth phenotype' with concordant EGFR/KRAS(G12V)/RAF1/BAD activation, which are typically mutually exclusive.

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• Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma.

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Pathway-based signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens (PASS-ON) are highly predictive of response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma, achieving validation AUCs of 0.85–0.89.

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• STAT3-dependent analysis reveals PDK4 as independent predictor of recurrence in prostate cancer.

  PMID 32323921 · PMC7178451 · Molecular systems biology · 2020 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Low STAT3 expression in primary prostate cancer is associated with up-regulated OXPHOS and ribosomal biosynthesis at the transcriptomic level.

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• M6A-mediated molecular patterns and tumor microenvironment infiltration characterization in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

  PMID 38532632 · PMC10978033 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NPC samples can be divided into two distinct m6A-related molecular subclasses based on prognostic m6A regulators

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• Emergent dynamics of underlying regulatory network links EMT and androgen receptor-dependent resistance in prostate cancer.

  PMID 36851919 · PMC9957767 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Simulations of the EMT-AR crosstalk network reveal four possible phenotypes: epithelial-sensitive (ES), epithelial-resistant (ER), mesenchymal-resistant (MR), and mesenchymal-sensitive (MS), with MS occurring rarely

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• Mutually exclusive teams-like patterns of gene regulation characterize phenotypic heterogeneity along the noradrenergic-mesenchymal axis in neuroblastoma.

  PMID 38230570 · PMC10795782 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2024 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NOR-specific and MES-specific gene expression patterns are largely mutually exclusive, exhibiting a 'teams-like' behavior across NB bulk and single-cell datasets

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• Liver-specific paraoxonase-1 alleviates regulatory T cell-driven immunosuppression via metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41387425 · PMC12701056 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PON1 expression is downregulated in HCC tumor tissue and low PON1 is associated with worse prognosis

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• Assessment tool based on fatty acid metabolic signatures for predicting the prognosis and treatment response in bladder cancer.

  PMID 38076064 · PMC10703629 · Heliyon · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Three fatty acid metabolic molecular subtypes (FAMC1, FAMC2, FAMC3) exist in BLCA, with FAMC1 showing the most favorable prognosis and highest FAM score.

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• Machine learning algorithm predicts fibrosis-related blood diagnosis markers of intervertebral disc degeneration.

  PMID 37915003 · PMC10619283 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CEP120 and SPDL1 are fibrosis-related diagnostic genes for IDD, identified via a random forest model from 29 differentially expressed fibrosis-related genes

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• Differential bone morphology and hypoxia activity in skeletal metastases of ER(+) and ER(-) breast cancer.

  PMID 39572705 · PMC11582807 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ER− breast cancer forms more osteolytic bone metastatic lesions than ER+ breast cancer, while ER+ tumors are more osteoblastic/pre-osteolytic.

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• Identification of immune-related signatures and pathogenesis differences between thoracic aortic aneurysm patients with bicuspid versus tricuspid valves via weighted gene co-expression network analysis.

  PMID 37883426 · PMC10602290 · PloS one · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  TAA/TAV pathogenesis is more associated with immune-related gene expression than TAA/BAV, with two WGCNA gene modules (brown and blue) enriched for immune functions.

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• Exploration of the shared diagnostic genes and molecular mechanism between obesity and atherosclerosis via bioinformatic analysis.

  PMID 39825072 · PMC11742665 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SAMSN1 and PHGDH are shared diagnostic genes for both obesity and atherosclerosis.

  obese atherosclerotic shared validation microarray wgcna lasso

• A mechanistic model captures the emergence and implications of non-genetic heterogeneity and reversible drug resistance in ER+ breast cancer cells.

  PMID 34316714 · PMC8271219 · NAR cancer · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  EMT and tamoxifen-resistance (TamR) regulatory axes can drive one another, enabling non-genetic heterogeneity via six co-existing phenotypes (ES, ER, HS, HR, MS, MR)

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• Comprehensive analysis of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors to predict the drug resistance, immune microenvironment, and prognosis in stomach adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 38529307 · PMC10962337 · PeerJ · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PPARA, PPARD and PPARG are more abnormally expressed in STAD samples and cell lines compared to most of 32 cancer types in TCGA

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• 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

• Specific signature biomarkers highlight the potential mechanisms of circulating neutrophils in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

  PMID 36438795 · PMC9685413 · Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Six genes (CST7, HSP90AB1, PADI4, PLBD1, RAB32, SLAMF6) are signature diagnostic biomarkers for aSAH identified by LASSO and SVM-RFE.

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