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 Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• Tumor-specific but immunosuppressive CD39(+)CD8(+) T cells exhibit double-faceted roles in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 40961944 · PMC12629791 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD39+CD8+ TILs constitute a terminally exhausted, tumor-antigen-specific subset of CD8+ T cells

  memory sorted caix-specific cd39+pd-1bright scrna-seq bulk mhc

• 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.

  hnscc cd45+ cd8+ tcga single-cell bulk pseudo-time

• 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 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  High expression of transcription factors FOXA1 and EZH2 in malignant cells at the invasive front plays a key role in driving tumor progression

  breast er+ epithelial malignant scrna-seq spatial copy

• TNF-⍺-mediated myeloid-instructed CD14(+)CD4(+) T cells are associated with poor survival in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41666923 · PMC12923953 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Tumors stratify into lymphoid-enriched, myeloid-enriched, and mixed immune-infiltrated subtypes independent of oncogenic driver status

  resected luad cd4+ multiplex spatial image

• 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.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• 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

  tnbc tcga-brca metabric single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Differential Infiltration of Key Immune T-Cell Populations Across Malignancies Varying by Immunogenic Potential and the Likelihood of Response to Immunotherapy.

  PMID 39682743 · PMC11640164 · Cells · 2024 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Estimated T-cell infiltration differs significantly across melanoma, bladder, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers, tracking known immunogenic potential.

  tumor melanoma orien bulk gene kaplan-meier

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

  PMID 34721945 · PMC8555559 · Oncoimmunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  In tumors, TCRVγnon9 γδ T cells (the majority γδ TIL subset) are quantitatively correlated and aligned with T CD8 cells for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression profile, and response to immune checkpoint therapy

  pbmc tumor syngeneic scrnaseq cite-seq flow

• 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

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• Liver-specific paraoxonase-1 alleviates regulatory T cell-driven immunosuppression via metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41387425 · PMC12701056 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PON1 expression is downregulated in HCC tumor tissue and low PON1 is associated with worse prognosis

  hcc paired hepa1-6 pon1-nc bioinformatic immunohistochemistry orthotopic

• Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligands Drive Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression through Protumorigenic T-cell Polarization.

  PMID 40905825 · PMC12793834 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AHR ligands (cigarette smoke extract and TCDD) promote PDAC tumor growth in a syngeneic orthotopic mouse model

  pdac naïve il22 orthotopic naïve western

• A pan-cancer single cell landscape reveals heterogeneity and functional diversity of double-negative T cells.

  PMID 41484771 · PMC12882460 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Integration of pan-cancer scRNA-seq data yields a comprehensive single-cell atlas of 157,025 high-quality DNT cells across 23 cancer types.

  tumor dnt ffpe mc38 scrna-seq tcr multiplex

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• Integrative network modeling reveals mechanisms underlying T cell exhaustion.

  PMID 32024856 · PMC7002445 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  TCE arises from changes in diverse gene regulatory interactions across a shared network rather than dysregulation of a single gene

  cd8+ tce manual gene principal

• Targeted disruption of the S1P2 sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor gene leads to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma formation.

  PMID 19903857 · PMC2973841 · Cancer research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S1P2−/− mice develop clonal B-cell lymphomas with age, with ~half affected by 1.5-2 years

  s1p2− lymphoma bone genomic necropsy histology flow

• A human tumor-immune organoid model of glioblastoma.

  PMID 41505256 · PMC12969483 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iHOTT is an autologous co-culture platform integrating patient-derived tumor cells and matched PBMCs within human cortical organoids

  ihott sorted recurrent flow immunostaining multiplex

• Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2(+) cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 35547750 · PMC9065207 · Theranostics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  THBS2 is a tumor size-independent biomarker that robustly predicts post-surgical OS and RFS in multiple independent early-stage LUAD cohorts

  tcga paired thbs2+ scrna-seq wgcna scrna-seq gsea