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).

• Smoking promotes colorectal cancer via the CKAP2L/AREG axis.

  PMID 41823522 · PMC13038336 · International journal of oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Smoking is positively associated with CRC risk, confirmed by both cross-sectional (NHANES) and Mendelian randomization analyses

  participants european crc hct116 cross-sectional two-sample single-cell

• Decoding clone evolution in HER2 amplified breast cancer through single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analysis of copy number variations.

  PMID 41840060 · PMC13125306 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  IDC exhibits significantly higher CNV burden than DCIS, supporting progressive genomic instability during tumor evolution

  her2-positive epithelial malignant tcga-brca single-cell spatial infercnv

• A differential single-cell transcriptome atlas of left-sided and right-sided colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41844817 · PMC13111741 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MTRNR2L8 is markedly upregulated in RCRC tumor cells and is associated with poorer patient survival

  crc epithelial rcrc tcga-read scrna-seq copy gene

• Dissecting the immunosuppressive microenvironment of LAMA3 + malignant cells and SPP1 + macrophages in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41845425 · PMC13104401 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A LAMA3+ epithelial subpopulation (C3) enriched at the invasive tumor front shows strong EMT signatures and is associated with poor prognosis

  escc epithelial scrna-seq tcga-escc scrna-seq spatial infercnv

• TiSMeD: A tissue-specific methylation and expression database for biomarker and translational applications.

  PMID 41883585 · PMC13011251 · Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TiSMeD integrates 6,782 methylomes, 16,894 transcriptomes, and 241 proteomes across 48 normal human tissues into a searchable database

  normal plasma case-control tcga methylation transcriptome proteomics

• Deconvolving cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq samples.

  PMID 41886524 · PMC13038110 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  BLUE, a U-Net-based deep learning model with dual branches (U-Net for GEPs, MLP for proportions), accurately predicts cell-type proportions and cell-type-specific gene expression profiles from bulk RNA-seq.

  pbmc pancreatic aml scrna-seq-derived real scrna-seq

• Therapeutic manipulation and spatial quantification of the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41907400 · PMC13018967 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer fibroblast heterogeneity can be distilled into two overarching, transcriptomically distinct CAF populations marked by PDGFRA+ and ACTA2+ expression

  crc colonic gemm scrna-seq multiplex bulk

• A novel deep learning-driven framework for improving lncRNA comprehensive annotation with LncADeep 2.0.

  PMID 41923359 · PMC13090826 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LncADeep 2.0 outperforms LncADeep and other existing tools for lncRNA identification on both GENCODE annotated transcripts and independent RNA-seq data

  lncrna hypertrophic gencode lncrna-protein-mirna mlp-based independent ablation

• Targeting KIFC1 to disrupt centrosome clustering and trigger anaphase catastrophe in small-cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41948931 · PMC13134724 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KIFC1 is overexpressed in SCLC compared with normal tissues and other cancer types

  sclc h146 clinical cancer immunofluorescence viability flow

• PD-1 antibody-bound progenitor-exhausted CD8(+) T cells in lymph nodes boost PD-1-blockade anti-tumor immunity in gastrointestinal cancer.

  PMID 41951588 · PMC13237225 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells (CD8-Tpex, TCF7+PDCD1+) are enriched in proximal lymph nodes and proliferate at a high rate after ICI treatment

  esophagogastric cancer surgically tcga scrna-seq scrna reanalysis

• Dissecting tumor heterogeneity in colorectal cancer: uncovering the role of BCL2L1(+) cells through single-cell analysis.

  PMID 41958675 · PMC13056825 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq identifies five CRC tumor cell subtypes, with the C4 BCL2L1+ subtype predominantly enriched in liver metastases and showing enhanced proliferation, metabolic reprogramming, and anti-apoptotic activity

  crc epcs malignant tcga scrna-seq infercnv cytotrace

• Glioblastoma invasion into different organoid hosts reveals cell-intrinsic and proliferative migratory programs.

  PMID 41959666 · PMC13059114 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GB cells invade both neural and endodermal organoid hosts (lineage-independent), whereas non-malignant neural progenitor cells show markedly reduced infiltration

  gbm1 gfp-gbm1 facs-sorted post-invasion image-based immunofluorescence single-cell

• Dissecting origin factors of lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer via multimodal omics.

  PMID 41975179 · PMC13250061 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epithelial cells in mLNs and matched mLN+ primary tumors (mLN+PTs) show enhanced cancer stemness (higher CytoTRACE scores) compared to mLN-negative and normal samples.

  patient-matched mln epithelial tcga-luad scrna-seq spatial cytotrace

• Identification of cycling regulatory T cell precursors as conductors of immune escape during breast carcinoma progression.

  PMID 41997138 · PMC13213619 · Cancer cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel proliferative Treg precursor state, cycling Treg (cycTreg: FOXP3^int, MKI67^hi, IKZF2/4^int-hi), is absent in normal breast, low in DCIS, and strongly expanded in IBC

  normal mammary dcis tumor-draining scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• Single-cell profiling reveals distinct populations of tumor-associated macrophages and metastatic tumor cells in breast cancer brain metastasis.

  PMID 42034645 · PMC13247122 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell profiling of BCBM identifies 12 tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) subtypes and 5 metastatic tumor cell (MTC) subtypes with distinct transcriptional profiles

  brain breast scrna-seq tams scrna-seq bulk copy

• Therapeutic Targeting of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Microsatellite Instability-High Gastric Cancer.

  PMID 42038020 · PMC13104725 · Journal of Cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MSI gastric cancer samples show significantly greater T cell infiltration and a lower proportion of epithelial cells compared to GS samples

  gastric epithelial stomach nod-scid single-cell cnv differential

• Multi-Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals That EREG-Driven TME Crosstalk Defines Anti-EGFR Response in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 42043480 · PMC13115984 · Cancer medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EGFRI eligibility (defined by left-sidedness, RAS/BRAF wild-type, MSS) stratifies cancer cell transcriptomic characteristics more strongly than sidedness alone.

  crc epcam+ aggregated cancer scrna-seq copy pseudobulk

• mitoXplorer, a visual data mining platform to systematically analyze and visualize mitochondrial expression dynamics and mutations.

  PMID 31799603 · PMC6954439 · Nucleic acids research · 2020 · 5 claims · 5 setups

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  mitoXplorer integrates transcriptome, proteome, and mutation data with a manually curated mitochondrial interactome of ~1200 genes grouped into 38 mitochondrial processes across four model species.

  rpe-1 trisomic rpe yeast bulk proteomics mitotracker

• scATD: a high-throughput and interpretable framework for single-cell cancer drug resistance prediction and biomarker identification.

  PMID 40501071 · PMC12159290 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scATD enables high-throughput single-cell drug sensitivity prediction for new patients without model parameter retraining via bidirectional Bi-AdaIN style transfer

  panglaodb cancer geo gse137829 single-cell bulk

• FUNCellA: A Tool for Single-Sample Enrichment Analysis and Relative Pathway Activity Estimation in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data.

  PMID 42021835 · PMC13096679 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  FUNCellA integrates 7 single-sample enrichment algorithms with novel relative activation thresholding methods to identify active, inactive, and intermediate cellular states in scRNA-Seq data

  pbmcs bone liver blood scrna-seq simulated microarray