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).

• An Asilomar moment.

  PMID 12372138 · PMC244904 · Genome biology · 2002 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  The current push to restrict genomics/pathogen research funding and publication due to bioterrorism fears parallels the 1975 Asilomar Conference response to recombinant DNA risks.

  mousepox chicken poliovirus gene targeted novo

• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• Tissue-resident macrophage and dendritic cells drive type I IFN immunity to enteroviruses in the liver.

  PMID 41592119 · PMC12858076 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Type I IFN signaling (Ifnar1), but not type III IFN signaling (Ifnlr1), is essential for survival and for limiting viral replication in the liver during echovirus infection

  neonatal liver survival viral h&e

• SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first trimester leads to profound immune dysregulation at the maternal-fetal interface despite limited virus detection in placental tissues.

  PMID 41974725 · PMC13249863 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SARS-CoV-2 rarely infects villous and decidual placental tissues in the first trimester despite maternal infection

  villous maternal rt-qpcr fluorescence indirect

• The evolutionary dynamics of a rapidly mutating virus within and between hosts: the case of hepatitis C virus.

  PMID 19911046 · PMC2768904 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The replication rate of the strain that initiates an infection has a strong effect on the fitness of the infection at the between-host level, even though the virus evolves rapidly within the host.

  computational same simulation stochastic parameter-sweep multivariate

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, validating its use as a proxy for translational efficiency at the elongation level.

  unstimulated cd4+ kidney liver bulk single-cell

• Systems biology and the host response to viral infection.

  PMID 18066032 · PMC7097743 · Nature biotechnology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Systems biology integration of 'omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, genomics) with computational modeling is needed to fully understand virus-host interactions and identify novel antiviral targets

  lung cd4 rhesus kshv microarray quantitative genomic

• In vivo antiviral host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 by viral load, sex, and age.

  PMID 32898168 · PMC7478592 · PLoS biology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a strong interferon-driven antiviral response in the nasopharynx, with up-regulation of viral sensors, T cell/NK chemokines, and antiviral effectors

  nasopharyngeal airway patient-matched swab shotgun gsea biological

• The application of genomics to emerging zoonotic viral diseases.

  PMID 19855817 · PMC2734983 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput sequencing, mRNA expression profiling, and SNP microarray analysis enable rapid identification and genomic characterization of emerging zoonotic pathogens and host responses to them.

  siv-infected plasmacytoid migratory influenza transcriptional tlr fecal

• Opioid-induced transcriptional reprogramming of cerebrospinal fluid immune cells is associated with neuroinflammatory signaling in antiretroviral treated SIV-infected rhesus macaques.

  PMID 42010620 · PMC13227897 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Morphine-dependent macaques show increased CD4+ TCM and Treg cell proportions and decreased CD8+ TEM cell proportions in CSF at the pre-infection timepoint compared to saline controls

  csf scrna-seq necropsy single-cell flow cell-cell

• Antigenic diversity, transmission mechanisms, and the evolution of pathogens.

  PMID 19847288 · PMC2759524 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Three distinct infection types (A, B, C) emerge as maxima in the pathogen fitness landscape, each with characteristic within-host dynamics, contact network structure, and transmission mode

  generic simulated hiv-1 stochastic dynamic regression

• Ex vivo modeling of lung tissue resident antimicrobial responses.

  PMID 41989160 · PMC13170359 · mBio · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Murine PCLS (mPCLS) reproduce core antiviral transcriptional responses seen in vivo after IAV infection but lack a type II interferon response, likely due to absence of infiltrating immune cells.

  pcls lung mpcls iav-primed bulk flow rnascope

• Transcriptome and machine learning analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on mitochondria and multiorgan damage.

  PMID 38295140 · PMC10830027 · PloS one · 2024 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Potential cardiac, hepatic, and renal impairments in COVID-19 are associated with ACE2, inflammatory cytokine storms, and mitochondrial pathways.

  nasopharyngeal heart leukocytes blood bulk pathway machine

• The transcription factor EHF promotes the maturation and immunosuppression of conventional dendritic cells.

  PMID 41730908 · PMC13039115 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EHF orchestrates an immunosuppressive maturation program in cDC1s and cDC2s downstream of TLR7/8/9 sensing of self-nucleic acids

  ehf facs-sorted dss-induced lethal cd4+

• Use of functional genomics to understand influenza-host interactions.

  PMID 17765704 · PMC7112328 · Advances in virus research · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Functional genomics/microarray analysis provides a global view of host response to influenza infection that reveals virus-host interaction mechanisms not accessible by conventional techniques

  hela a549 lung texas cdna microarray infection

• α4 Integrin blockade impairs CD8+ T cell neuroimmune surveillance following SIV infection.

  PMID 41734020 · PMC13078879 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  α4 blockade preserves CD4+ Th1 cell access to brain parenchyma but impairs CD8 effector recruitment, disrupting antiviral control

  siv-infected live macaque cd4-δitga4 flow antibody single-cell

• Gene signature discovery and systematic validation across diverse clinical cohorts for TB prognosis and response to treatment.

  PMID 37471455 · PMC10393163 · PLoS computational biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A network-based meta-analysis of 27 discovery cohorts identified a common 45-gene signature specific to active TB disease across studies.

  blood aggregated 45-gene independent bulk network-based gene

• 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