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).

• Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing regulates cardiogenesis.

  PMID 41537425 · PMC12807453 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Rtf1 activity is essential for differentiation of the myocardial lineage from mesoderm

  zebrafish embryo embryonic mescs crispr situ shrna

• SETDB1 enables development beyond cleavage stages by extinguishing the MERVL-driven two-cell totipotency transcriptional program in the mouse embryo.

  PMID 41697236 · PMC12908936 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Maternal SETDB1 is required for mouse preimplantation development beyond the eight-cell stage

  2-cell single-embryo degs embryo single-embryo principal

• Science star over Asia.

  PMID 16149850 · PMC1201306 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Ariff Bongso and associates at Singapore's National University Hospital were the first to derive human embryonic stem cells, from a five-day-old discarded human embryo in 1994, and showed the cells were pluripotent with therapeutic transplant potential.

  blastocyst embryonic fugu rice embryo culture whole-genome

• Sox8 remodels the cranial ectoderm to generate the ear.

  PMID 35867760 · PMC9282420 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sox8 sits at the top of a core transcriptional circuit (Sox8, Pax2, Lmx1a, Zbtb16) that determines otic identity

  chick bulk single-cell chipseq

• De novo assembly of a transcriptome for Calanus finmarchicus (Crustacea, Copepoda)--the dominant zooplankter of the North Atlantic Ocean.

  PMID 24586345 · PMC3929608 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A de novo transcriptome for Calanus finmarchicus was assembled from six developmental-stage libraries, yielding 206,041 contigs and a reference set of 96,090 unique comps, representing a new molecular resource for this species.

  calanus pooled raw combined bulk extraction read

• 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

  Has reproduction · 65

  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

• annotate_my_genomes: an easy-to-use pipeline to improve genome annotation and uncover neglected genes by hybrid RNA sequencing.

  PMID 36472574 · PMC9724561 · GigaScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  annotate_my_genomes is an easy-to-use genome-guided pipeline that uses hybrid (PacBio+Illumina) assembled transcripts to distinguish coding genes from long non-coding RNAs and reconcile them with prior annotations.

  chick real simulated pacbio illumina hybrid

• 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

• miR-203 facilitates timely cell fate transitions via epigenetic modulation during early embryogenesis.

  PMID 41811946 · PMC12978216 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  miR-203 is required for a timely totipotency-to-pluripotency transition during early mouse embryogenesis

  preimplantation 8-cell mice mir-203 qrt-pcr genotyping time-lapse

• A Meta-Analysis of Wolbachia Transcriptomics Reveals a Stage-Specific Wolbachia Transcriptional Response Shared Across Different Hosts.

  PMID 32718933 · PMC7467002 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  There is a general lack of global gene regulation across re-analyzed Wolbachia transcriptomes, with the exception of a weak transcriptional response upregulating ribosomal proteins in early larval stages.

  onchocerca dirofilaria wolbachia drosophila rna-seq functional

• A consensus approach to vertebrate de novo transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data: assembly of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) transcriptome.

  PMID 25009556 · PMC4070175 · Frontiers in genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Multiple k-mer (MK) assemblies are more complete than single k-mer (SK) assemblies, showing higher reads-mapped-back-to-transcripts (RMBT) and higher CEGMA complete-gene percentages for all three tools.

  anas duck million random illumina read novo

• Expression genomics in breast cancer research: microarrays at the crossroads of biology and medicine.

  PMID 17397520 · PMC1868923 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-wide expression microarray studies reveal transcriptional networks/signatures that explain breast cancer biological and clinical heterogeneity

  breast early-stage diffuse dlbcl gene

• Toward a Consensus in the Repertoire of Hemocytes Identified in Drosophila.

  PMID 33748138 · PMC7969988 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative analysis of three scRNAseq studies identifies eight common, robust hemocyte subgroups associated with distinct functions (proliferation, immune response, phagocytosis, secretion)

  wandering feeding stage type single scenic immunolabeling

• High-resolution mapping of transcriptional dynamics across tissue development reveals a stable mRNA-tRNA interface.

  PMID 25122613 · PMC4216921 · Genome research · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  mRNA codon and amino acid pools are highly stable across mouse development and across tissues, simply reflecting the genomic background distribution of any possible transcriptome.

  c57bl strand-specific pol computational

• Feed-forward loops by NR5A2 ensure robust gene activation during pre-implantation development.

  PMID 41355514 · PMC12848575 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NR5A2 chromatin binding is dynamic, changing genome-wide from the 2-cell to the morula stage, with peak numbers and target regions (e.g. SINE B1/Alu) shifting over developmental time

  2-cell embryonic 8-cell zygotes cut&tag chip-seq h3k27ac

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• MAdLandExpression: integrating sexual reproduction into the Physcomitrium patens expression atlas.

  PMID 41604502 · PMC12851517 · The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MAdLandExpression is introduced as a web-based gene expression atlas for P. patens, successor to PEATmoss, with new visualization/analysis tools (Expression Comparator, gene set normalization, CV calculator)

  reute gransden villersexel rna-seq

• Have microarrays failed to deliver for developmental biology?

  PMID 12225576 · PMC139405 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Despite predictions that microarrays would transform biology, very few published developmental biology microarray studies have generated novel insights.

  drosophila caenorhabditis developing xenopus cdna genome-wide microarray

• Mitochondrial localization and function of a subset of 22q11 deletion syndrome candidate genes.

  PMID 18775783 · PMC2729512 · Molecular and cellular neurosciences · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Six 22q11 genes (Mrpl40, Prodh, Slc25a1, Txnrd2, T10, Zdhhc8) encode proteins that localize to mitochondria, including neuronal/synaptic mitochondria.

  orthologues nih-3t3 3t3 mefs bioinformatic egfp co-transfection

• Manual annotation and analysis of the defensin gene cluster in the C57BL/6J mouse reference genome.

  PMID 20003482 · PMC2807441 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Manual annotation of the mouse Chromosome 8 defensin region identifies 98 gene loci: 54 in the alpha-defensin cluster and 44 in the beta-defensin cluster

  c57bl orthologous alpha-defensin defensin manual comparative sequence