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).

• Ovarian cancer biomarkers: current options and future promise.

  PMID 18926090 · PMC3381792 · Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CA125 lacks the sensitivity and specificity needed for reliable early-stage ovarian cancer detection, since only ~50% of stage I/II cases show elevated levels

  serum plasma preoperative advanced serum plasma elisa

• Tumor cell metabolism: the marriage of molecular genetics and proteomics with cellular intermediary metabolism; proceed with caution!

  PMID 17090311 · PMC1636067 · Molecular cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Genetic/proteomic alterations will have little relevancy to disease processes if they are not manifested in altered and impaired cellular and metabolic function

  prostate tumor malignant enzyme gene abundance

• Deciphering the Immune Microenvironment at the Forefront of Tumor Aggressiveness by Constructing a Regulatory Network with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 38254989 · PMC10815467 · Genes · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combining scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics enables inference of malignant cells at the invasive front of the ER+ breast cancer TME and dissection of events at the tumor infiltration forefront

  normal er+ epithelial malignant single-cell spatial copy

• 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

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Human primary GBMs contain both tumor-originated pericytes (T-PCs) and normal-originated pericytes (N-PCs) with distinctive cell-intrinsic features.

  cd45-cd146+ dissociated frozen cd146+ scrna-seq fluorescence-activated immunofluorescence

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Liver metastatic potential in RCC is marked by stem-like tumor states, metabolic plasticity, and microenvironmental remodeling.

  right-sided single integrated malignant single-cell copy dimensionality

• 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

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• Phased differentiation of γδ T and T CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of human cancers.

  PMID 34721945 · PMC8555559 · Oncoimmunology · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  In tumors, infiltrating γδ T cells (predominantly TCRVγnon9) are quantitatively correlated with and aligned to CD8 T cells for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression, and response to immune checkpoint therapy.

  splenic healthy tumor syngeneic single-cell scrnaseq citeseq

• 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 by a discriminative index (DI) score representing classification power for distinguishing given groups, enabling intuitive selection of optimal biomarker genes.

  tcga melanoma lung head bulk single-cell rna-seq

• Prevalence of von Hippel-Lindau gene mutations in sporadic renal cell carcinoma: results from The Netherlands cohort study.

  PMID 15932632 · PMC1177929 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  VHL mutations were detected in 61% (114/187) of sporadic clear-cell RCC patients

  archival subset flanking paraffin-embedded pcr-sscp feasibility histopathological

• Serum S100A6 concentration predicts peritoneal tumor burden in mice with epithelial ovarian cancer and is associated with advanced stage in patients.

  PMID 19888321 · PMC2765613 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Serum S100A6 concentration correlates with peritoneal tumor burden in a mouse OVCA xenograft model, based on inverse regression calibration against bioluminescent imaging data.

  serum skov-3 pooled ovca lc-ms antigen whole-animal

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

  PMID 38157249 · PMC10781479 · Aging · 2023 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A nine-gene oxidative stress-related scoring (OSRS) model (AREG, CES1, CSTA, FDCSP, JCHAIN, IFFO2, PGLYRP4, SPOCK2, SPINK6) predicts overall survival in HNSCC.

  tcga-hnscc gse41613 gse103322 prjeb23709 bulk single-cell immunotherapy

• Proteomics as a tool for biomarker discovery.

  PMID 18057524 · PMC3851415 · Disease markers · 2007 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A useful clinical biomarker must be easily attainable, have adequate sensitivity, have adequate specificity, and lead to patient benefit through intervention

  serum laser ovarian seldi-tof two-dimensional gene

• Detection of p53 gene mutations in aspiration biopsy specimens from suspected breast cancers by polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism analysis.

  PMID 7730136 · PMC5920757 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1995 · 4 claims · 4 setups

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  Detection of p53 gene mutation by PCR-SSCP in aspirated breast biopsy specimens is a helpful method for more accurate diagnosis of suspected breast cancer

  aspiration aspirated biopsy pcr-sscp flow p53

• Human disease classification in the postgenomic era: a complex systems approach to human pathobiology.

  PMID 17625512 · PMC1948102 · Molecular systems biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Current syndromic disease classification lacks specificity despite historically serving clinicians well

  prostate neurodegenerative experimental genetic reverse-engineered protein-protein gene

• Characterization of ALTO-encoding circular RNAs expressed by Merkel cell polyomavirus and trichodysplasia spinulosa polyomavirus.

  PMID 33999949 · PMC8158866 · PLoS pathogens · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MCPyV generates two circular RNAs (circALTO1, circALTO2) spanning the early region/ALTO ORF, detectable in VP-MCC cell lines and patient tumors

  mcpyv-infected vp-mcc waga mcc rna-seq inverse qrt-pcr

• The use of laser capture microscopy in proteomics research--a review.

  PMID 15502248 · PMC3839334 · Disease markers · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LCM allows purification of specific, histologically defined cell populations from heterogeneous tissue for downstream proteomic analysis

  breast prostate esophageal head maldi-tof automated two-dimensional

• Defining disease with laser precision: laser capture microdissection in gastroenterology.

  PMID 18619446 · PMC3736118 · Gastroenterology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LCM allows isolation of pure cell populations from heterogeneous tissue without damaging DNA, RNA, or protein integrity.

  esophagus gastric colorectal colonic maldi cdna profiling

• Proteomic profiling in ovarian cancer.

  PMID 19955909 · PMC7319026 · International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  No validated or cost-efficient screening program exists for ovarian cancer; physical exam, CA125, and transvaginal ultrasound lack sufficient sensitivity/specificity for early-stage detection.

  serum tumor rolling mass microarray