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).

• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Carcinoma cell profiles are distinct for each patient, while diverse microenvironmental (nonmalignant) subsets are shared across different patients.

  tumour single differentially seurat-identified single-cell differential gene

• Reinvigorating COTL1(high) NK cells via GITR signalling overcomes immune checkpoint blockade resistance in tsMHC-I-impaired tumours.

  PMID 41912896 · PMC13179135 · Nature cell biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A COTL1-high NK cell subset mediates immune checkpoint blockade responsiveness in tsMHC-I impaired tumours

  hcc sorted orthotopic multiplex bulk single-cell

• Androgen activity in the male embryonic hindbrain drives lethal PFA ependymoma.

  PMID 41882358 · PMC13083265 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The cellular hierarchy of PFA ependymoma is less differentiated in male than in female patients

  pfa pfa-epn normal hindbrain single-cell kaplan-meier literature

• 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

  flash-frozen tcga single differentially single-cell bulk topic

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow is proposed, spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis, to overcome methodological inconsistencies in the field.

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• Podoplanin-defined tumour plasticity and CCR7-mediated lymphatic metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 41957138 · PMC13226698 · British journal of cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A PDPN-defined tumour cell mesenchymal shift, promoted by hypoxia, is required for efficient CCR7-driven lymphatic metastasis and tumour progression

  eo771 c57bl tnbc tumour proliferation tumour flow

• The landscape of responses to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in resectable Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog-mutant lung adenocarcinoma: Clinical heterogeneity and correlative immunologic analysis.

  PMID 42011021 · PMC13096693 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  KRAS-mutant LUAD patients show significantly poorer pathological response and inferior long-term survival after neoadjuvant immunotherapy compared to KRAS-wildtype patients

  resected resectable epithelial cd4t_treg_tnfrsf4 scrna-seq retrospective cnv

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis.

  PMID 41639447 · PMC12935554 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) induces increased innervation and functional/transcriptional engagement of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs)

  kras-g12d tumour-bearing vagal npy2r-ires-cre whole-mount aav neurite

• Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming.

  PMID 41639465 · PMC13017511 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics atlas (Taiji pipeline) integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq across nine CD8+ T cell states can predict TF activity and identify state-selective versus multi-state TFs

  cd8+ lcmv p14 c57bl rna-seq pearson crispr

• Precancerous niche remodelling dictates nascent tumour persistence.

  PMID 41781610 · PMC13148994 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Newly emerging tumours actively remodel their surrounding stroma into a 'precancerous niche' that determines their long-term survival.

  upper nascent oesophagus carcinogen-free immunofluorescence edu immune

• Ectopic NMDAR expression in cancer unmasks germline-encoded autoimmunity.

  PMID 41882353 · PMC13216075 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GluN1 and GluN2B NMDAR subunits are ectopically expressed in cancer cells of human TNBC tumours

  breast tnbc 4t1-nmdar orthotopic bulk spatial immunofluorescence

• Emergence of oncofetal plasticity is ubiquitous in early colorectal cancers.

  PMID 41986711 · PMC13233332 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Metastasis-associated oncofetal cell states emerge already at the earliest stages of colorectal cancer, concurrent with invasive front formation

  stage crc multiregional patient-derived spatial immunofluorescence whole-genome