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 transcriptional dynamics of flavivirus infection.

  PMID 29451494 · PMC5826272 · eLife · 2018 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  viscRNA-Seq, a modified Smart-seq2 protocol with an added virus-specific capture oligo, enables simultaneous quantification of host mRNA and intracellular viral RNA from the same single cell.

  huh7 viscrna-seq qpcr gene

• Cell type differences in human cytomegalovirus transcription and epigenetic regulation with insights into major immediate-early enhancer-promoter control.

  PMID 40758707 · PMC12333995 · PLoS pathogens · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  Six viral promoters (UL5, UL72, EP3, UL57-AS, US16-AS, US30-S) are ≥50-fold more active in D-NT2 than in HFF at 96 h post-infection and are classified as viral long promoters.

  d-nt2 hcmv-infected hcmv pro-seq dff-chip promoter

• A giant virus forms a specialized subcellular environment within its amoeba host for efficient translation.

  PMID 41513996 · PMC12872441 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The global cellular tRNA pool is not substantially altered during APMV infection, despite the virus encoding its own tRNA genes.

  acanthamoeba apmv rna-seq ribo-seq mim-trna-seq

• Single-Cell RNA-Seq Profiling of Transposable Element Expression in Human Peripheral Blood Cells During Viral Infections.

  PMID 41683713 · PMC12898442 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TE expression is significantly higher in PBMCs from viral infection cohorts (and recovered individuals) compared to healthy controls

  pbmcs pbmc cd8+ single-cell cell-type expression

• A four-gene signature from blood to exclude bacterial etiology of lower respiratory tract infection in adults.

  PMID 41285807 · PMC12644739 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  A 4-gene signature (ITGB4, ITGA7, IFI27, FAM20A) derived from whole blood RNA-seq discriminates any bacterial from nonbacterial ARI with cross-validated AUC = 0.90

  hospitalized adults pediatric blood bulk rna-seq microarray

• 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

  Has reproduction · 71

  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

• Profiling Selective Packaging of Host RNA and Viral RNA Modification in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Preparations.

  PMID 35186917 · PMC8851031 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 56

  SARS-CoV-2 viral preparations show selective enrichment of specific host tRNAs, tRNA fragments, and SRP RNA compared to uninfected VeroE6 cells

  veroe6 cell-free small large trna

• Dynamic Gene Attention Focus (DyGAF): Enhancing Biomarker Identification Through Dual-Model Attention Networks.

  PMID 40160891 · PMC11951896 · Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2025 · 6 claims · 5 setups

  Has reproduction · 44

  DyGAF, a dual-model attention neural network (independent Model A + dependent Model B), identifies and ranks genes by significance for COVID-19 biomarker discovery more effectively than differential expression analysis (DEA) and random forest (RF) feature selection

  nasopharyngeal same dygaf-ranked bulk differential random

• 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

• 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

• Discovery and functional interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-host protein interactions.

  PMID 33743211 · PMC7951565 · Cell · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  ChIRP-MS of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in infected Huh7.5 and Vero E6 cells identifies a comprehensive set of 309 host proteins that bind the viral RNA during active infection

  huh7.5 vero schmidt lung chirp-ms chirp-rna-seq sds-page

• RNA-sequence analysis of primary alveolar macrophages after in vitro infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus strains of differing virulence.

  PMID 24643046 · PMC3958415 · PloS one · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 41

  Infection of PAMs with either LV or Lena affects signaling pathways directly linked to the innate immune response, including IRF activation, RIG1-like receptors, TLRs and PKR pathways.

  pulmonary prrsv-infected lena-infected 3-week-old rna-seq immunoperoxidase quantitative

• MetaMap: an atlas of metatranscriptomic reads in human disease-related RNA-seq data.

  PMID 29901703 · PMC6025204 · GigaScience · 2018 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  The MetaMap pipeline recapitulates known infection agents in bona fide dual RNA-seq validation studies (Salmonella, HPV, HSV, rhinovirus)

  hela tumor lymphoblast rna-seq dual blastn-based

• Progressive transformation of the HIV-1 reservoir cell profile over two decades of antiviral therapy.

  PMID 36596305 · PMC9839361 · Cell host & microbe · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  After ~2 decades of ART, intact HIV-1 proviruses are predominantly integrated in heterochromatin, especially centromeric/peri-centromeric satellite and micro-satellite DNA

  pbmc single cd4 pbmc-derived flip-seq mip-seq prip-seq

• Loss of CD4(+) T cell-intrinsic arginase 1 accelerates Th1 response kinetics and reduces lung pathology during influenza infection.

  PMID 37572656 · PMC10576612 · Immunity · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  Arg1 is highly and specifically induced in lung CD4+ T cells during in vivo influenza infection

  flow-sort-purified lung cd4+ congenically rna-seq flow expression

• Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Engineered Human Tissues Using Clinical-Grade Soluble Human ACE2.

  PMID 32333836 · PMC7181998 · Cell · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  Clinical-grade hrsACE2 significantly inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of Vero-E6 cells in a dose-dependent manner

  nasopharyngeal vero-e6 ipsc-derived embryonic viral qrt-pcr organoid

• 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

  Has reproduction · 71

  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

• An atlas of the human liver diurnal transcriptome and its perturbation by hepatitis C virus infection.

  PMID 39209804 · PMC11362569 · Nature communications · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Human hepatocytes engrafted in liver chimeric mice display a large rhythmic transcriptome of ~1700 protein-coding orthologous genes, including transcription factors, chromatin modifiers, and metabolic enzymes.

  liver hcv-infected serum bulk chip-seq serum

• Dynamics of lung-infiltrating virus-specific T cells associated with age-dependent SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia severity.

  PMID 41533733 · PMC12829949 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aged Nr4a3-Tocky mice develop more severe pneumonia and delayed body weight recovery after SARS-CoV-2 infection than adult mice

  nr4a3-tocky bronchoalveolar lung left viral histopathology immunohistochemistry

• Spatial perturb-seq: single-cell functional genomics within intact tissue architecture.

  PMID 41723140 · PMC13035813 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Spatial Perturb-Seq simultaneously measures whole transcriptome (cell type), CRISPR barcodes (perturbation), spatial coordinates, and cell-cell interactions through a single Stereo-seq and/or Xenium run.

  hippocampus bone brain aav-transduced scrna-seq snrna-seq spatial