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).

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

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• Epigenetic loss of heterogeneity from low to high grade localized prostate tumours.

  PMID 34911933 · PMC8674326 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Low-grade (Gleason pattern 3) prostate cancer cells share chromatin accessibility features that are lost in high-grade (Gleason pattern 4) tumours

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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 incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

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• Wx: a neural network-based feature selection algorithm for transcriptomic data.

  PMID 31324856 · PMC6642261 · Scientific reports · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Wx algorithm ranks genes using a DI score reflecting each gene's classification power for distinguishing two groups.

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• Integrating multi-omics data reveals the antitumor role and clinical benefits of gamma-delta T cells in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 40197136 · PMC11974128 · BMC cancer · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High γδT cell infiltration is associated with favorable prognosis in TNBC but not in HR-positive or HER2-positive breast cancer

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• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An individualized Bayesian causal discovery framework can learn tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) by combining single-cell gene expression module (GEM) discovery, bulk tumor deconvolution, and individualized causal network learning.

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• Unveiling the immunometabolic landscape of colorectal cancer through PANoptosis-related gene expression.

  PMID 41601652 · PMC12832467 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PANoptosis-related genes show significant expression heterogeneity across CRC samples, with apoptosis-related genes comprising the largest proportion (87.4%)

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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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• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

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• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

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• Mammary cell gene expression atlas links epithelial cell remodeling events to breast carcinogenesis.

  PMID 34079055 · PMC8172904 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of five mouse scRNAseq datasets reveals a trifurcating lineage trajectory originating from embryonic mammary stem cells (MaSCs) that differentiates into three epithelial lineages (Basal, L-Alv, L-Hor) via unipotent progenitor clusters

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• A novel oxidative stress-related gene signature as an indicator of prognosis and immunotherapy responses in HNSCC.

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Consensus clustering of 74 oxidative stress-related genes identifies three distinct HNSCC molecular subgroups (Cluster1-3) with significantly different overall survival and tumor stage distribution

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• Hypoxia-associated genes as predictors of outcomes in gastric cancer: a genomic approach.

  PMID 40129974 · PMC11931070 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A prognostic model built from five H1-specific hypoxia-associated transcription factors (EHF, EIF1AD, GLA, KEAP1, MAGED2) predicts overall survival in STAD, with high-risk patients showing significantly worse OS.

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• Unveiling the NEFH+ malignant cell subtype: Insights from single-cell RNA sequencing in prostate cancer progression and tumor microenvironment interactions.

  PMID 39759507 · PMC11695424 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant cell subtype in PCa with high expression of NEFH was identified, located at the differentiation terminal, showing higher malignancy and association with advanced tumor lesions.

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• 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

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• Co-regulation and function of FOXM1/RHNO1 bidirectional genes in cancer.

  PMID 33890574 · PMC8104967 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXM1 and RHNO1 are head-to-head bidirectional genes regulated by a shared bidirectional promoter (F/R-BDP)

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• 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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• 5-methylcytosine RNA modification regulators-based patterns and features of immune microenvironment in acute myeloid leukemia.

  PMID 38277218 · PMC10911375 · Aging · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  m5C regulators are differentially expressed between AML and normal samples and correlate with AML prognosis

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• Elucidating the Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications of Insulin Resistance Genes in Breast Cancer: A Machine Learning-Powered Analysis.

  PMID 40427728 · PMC12109394 · Biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A seven-gene IRG prognostic signature (LIFR, EZR, TBC1D4, NSF, RPL5, SAA1, PGK1) predicts overall survival in breast cancer across training and four validation cohorts

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• Metabolic reprogramming and prognostic insights in molecular landscapes driven by glycolysis in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 40707588 · PMC12290113 · Scientific reports · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  457 differentially expressed GRGs were identified between OC and normal ovarian tissue, of which 30 were significantly associated with prognosis

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