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).

• 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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• Epigenetic context defines the transcriptional activity of canonical and noncanonical NF-κB signaling in pancreatic cancer.

  PMID 41844578 · PMC13039881 · Cell death discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TNFα is the primary activator of canonical NF-κB signaling via RELA in PDAC

  pdac patient-derived aspc-1 l3.6pl single-cell bulk multiplex

• Robust transcriptomic hallmarks targeting intratumor heterogeneity in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

  PMID 41916296 · PMC13130669 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Immune and stromal heterogeneity, rather than genetic variation, are primary drivers of gene expression ITH in iCCA

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• ASO-based PKM splice-switching therapy increases anti-CTLA-4 antibody efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 42009652 · PMC13096517 · Cell discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PKM2 is upregulated and PKM1 is downregulated in human and murine PDAC tumors relative to normal pancreas

  pdac ntconv bxpc-3 ihc expression 18f-fdg

• Cell-type- and chromosome-specific chromatin landscapes and DNA replication programs of Drosophila testis tumor stem cell-like cells.

  PMID 41371963 · PMC12758400 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GSC-like and CySC-like cells isolated from upd tumor testes are transcriptionally comparable to wild-type GSC/early-spermatogonia and CySC clusters, respectively

  upd gsc-like wild-type scrna-seq differential gene

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• 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

• Mitochondrial DNA methylation predicts immunotherapy response and prognosis in lung adenocarcinoma: evidence from scRNA-Seq and machine learning.

  PMID 41663976 · PMC12997902 · BMC cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Differentially expressed MTDM-related genes (DEMTDMRGs) are significantly enriched in cell cycle regulation, ferroptosis, and ABC transporter pathways

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• Annotation-free prediction of immunotherapy response in melanoma using single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41758825 · PMC12948085 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AI-based predictive models built on unannotated scRNA-seq data (cell-by-gene expression matrices) can classify melanoma patients as ICI responders vs. non-responders

  cd45+ scrna-seq independent scrna-seq single-gene-level pathway-level

• Machine learning-based identification of biomarkers and drugs in immunologically cold and hot pancreatic adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 39152432 · PMC11328457 · Journal of translational medicine · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PAAD tumors can be consensus-clustered into immunologically hot and cold subtypes based on CIBERSORT-derived immune cell fractions, with significantly different survival outcomes.

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• Integrative microRNA and transcriptome analysis reveals sex-specific molecular divergence in human bladder cancer.

  PMID 41578372 · PMC12911049 · Biology of sex differences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  48 tumor-specific sex-biased (TSSB) microRNAs were identified in bladder cancer, mostly located on autosomes rather than sex chromosomes

  tcga tssb blca mirna-seq bulk kegg

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna

• Fibroblast-associated CTHRC1 as a key indicator of recurrence risk in prostate cancer.

  PMID 41832493 · PMC13101373 · World journal of surgical oncology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Pathological T stage, N stage, Gleason score, and TP53 mutation are associated with higher PRAD recurrence risk

  tcga geo prad scrna-seq bulk single-cell cell-cell

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• A cellular epigenetic classification system for glioblastoma.

  PMID 41499453 · PMC13128495 · Neuro-oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ITHresolveGBM, a hierarchical two-step NMF method, deconvolutes bulk GBM DNA methylation profiles into three non-malignant (immune, glial, neuronal) and three malignant components

  gbm healthy pseudo-bulk tcga illumina single-cell deconvolution

• Construction of a SEMA3 family-based model to predict prognosis and molecular subtypes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41792569 · PMC13079247 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SEMA3 family expression defines two molecular subtypes (A and B) of PDAC with significantly different overall survival

  pdac bulk ssgsea differential

• A comprehensive framework for analysis of microRNA sequencing data in metastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 35047825 · PMC8759566 · NAR cancer · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Five miRNAs (Mir-210_3p, Mir-191_5p, Mir-8-P1b_3p, Mir-1307_5p, Mir-155_5p) are up-regulated at multiple metastatic CRC sites compared to primary CRC.

  pcrc same mli ngs mirna bioinformatics differential

• The complement system contributes to the immunosuppressive microenvironment of uveal melanoma.

  PMID 41803879 · PMC13130498 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Primary UM (pUM) preferentially expresses early complement pathway components over terminal membrane attack complex elements, with early factors showing prognostic significance.

  short-term metastatic normal pum bulk label-free single-cell