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).

• Single-cell multiomics profiling reveals heterogeneous transcriptional programs and microenvironment in DSRCTs.

  PMID 38781959 · PMC11228554 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DSRCT tumor cells cluster into consistent subpopulations with partially overlapping lineage- and metabolism-related transcriptional programs across patients and samples

  fresh matched archived dsrct scrna-seq single-nucleus bulk

• A gene signature related to programmed cell death to predict immunotherapy response and prognosis in colon adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 39950044 · PMC11823652 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COAD patients can be divided into two molecular subtypes (S1, S2) based on 21 prognostic PCD-related genes, with S1 showing worse prognosis and immunosuppressive microenvironment, S2 showing better prognosis and stronger anti-tumor immunity

  coad consensus cibersort mcp-counter

• TOSCA: an automated Tumor Only Somatic CAlling workflow for somatic mutation detection without matched normal samples.

  PMID 36699358 · PMC9710689 · Bioinformatics advances · 2022 · 6 claims · 2 setups

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  TOSCA is the first automated, open-source, end-to-end tumor-only somatic calling workflow for WES and targeted panel sequencing data.

  t-cell hcc1395 targeted whole-exome

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Genetic demultiplexing of pooled single-cell RNA-sequencing samples in cancer facilitates effective experimental design.

  PMID 34553212 · PMC8458035 · GigaScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genetic variation-based demultiplexing tools can be effectively deployed on pooled scRNA-seq experimental designs in cancer tissue (HGSOC and lung adenocarcinoma) despite somatic variation.

  hgsoc lung healthy scrna-seq bulk downstream

• Convergence of mutation and epigenetic alterations identifies common genes in cancer that predict for poor prognosis.

  PMID 18507500 · PMC2429944 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  At least 36 of the 189 newly mutated CAN genes are targets of promoter CpG island hypermethylation, often in both colon and breast cancer cell lines

  breast same selected hct116 expression methylation-specific rt-pcr

• Intrinsic genetic characteristics determine tumor-modifying capacity of fibroblasts: matrix metalloproteinase-3 5A/5A genotype enhances breast cancer cell invasion.

  PMID 17922906 · PMC2242664 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor-derived fibroblasts promote higher levels of breast cancer cell invasion than normal fibroblasts

  breast conditioned mda-mb-468 genomic invasion immunofluorescence pcr-rflp

• 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

  hnscc combined gse164690 tcga-hnsc ssgsea unsupervised immune

• Interpretable artificial intelligence based on immunoregulation-related genes predicts prognosis and immunotherapy response in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41048340 · PMC12491262 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  IRG expression pattern clusters LUAD patients into groups with significantly different survival outcomes and immune cell infiltration

  luad normal bulk wgcna tumor

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Proteomics approaches to identify tumor antigen directed autoantibodies as cancer biomarkers.

  PMID 15502247 · PMC3839398 · Disease markers · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Proteomics approaches (2D Western blot, protein microarray, multiplex ELISA) can identify tumor antigen-directed autoantibodies as candidate cancer biomarkers

  lung pancreatic hepatocellular renal gel microarray multiplex

• Oncogene mutations, copy number gains and mutant allele specific imbalance (MASI) frequently occur together in tumor cells.

  PMID 19826477 · PMC2757721 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Homozygous mutations of oncogenes are frequent (20%) across 833 cancer cell lines of 12 tumor types in the Sanger database

  tumors cancer tumor lung direct database quantitative

• 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)

  tcga ft282 gistic expression rt-qpcr

• Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential.

  PMID 36450752 · PMC9712620 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AR chromatin binding is highly heterogeneous between primary prostate tumors, with <5% of all AR binding sites (ARBS) shared by half of the 88 tumors analyzed

  prostate normal pca lncap chip-seq starr-seq luciferase

• Probing the cancer genome.

  PMID 18492227 · PMC2441462 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combined Sanger and 454 pyrosequencing of MCF-7 BAC clones identified 157 PCR-confirmed translocation breakpoint junctions, including 10 in-frame junctions confirmed at the transcript level

  mcf-7 tumor lung oral sanger solexa gistic

• The specificity of the FOXL2 c.402C>G somatic mutation: a survey of solid tumors.

  PMID 19956657 · PMC2777318 · PloS one · 2009 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  The FOXL2 c.402C>G mutation is not commonly found in a wide variety of other cancers and is likely pathognomonic for A-GCTs and closely related tumors.

  tumor ovarian kgn high sanger taqman

• Somatic mutations of the Parkinson's disease-associated gene PARK2 in glioblastoma and other human malignancies.

  PMID 19946270 · PMC4002225 · Nature genetics · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PARK2 is a frequently and specifically targeted gene within recurrent 6q25.2-q27 copy number losses in glioblastoma and colon cancer

  colon gbm cancer dbtrg array pcr colony

• Integrated proteomic analysis of human cancer cells and plasma from tumor bearing mice for ovarian cancer biomarker discovery.

  PMID 19936259 · PMC2775948 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integrated proteomic analysis of a cancer mouse model and human cancer cell populations provides an effective approach to identify potential circulating protein biomarkers.

  k-ras ovarian lists tumor quantitative pathway immunoblot

• Involvement of potential pathways in malignant transformation from oral leukoplakia to oral squamous cell carcinoma revealed by proteomic analysis.

  PMID 19691830 · PMC2746235 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  85 proteins are differentially and consistently expressed (>2-fold change, P<0.05) between paired OLK and OSCC tissues, including 52 up-regulated and 33 down-regulated proteins

  paired list differentially oscc 2-de gene interaction

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex