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).

• Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma.

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A pathway-based super signature from on-treatment samples (PASS-ON) predicts anti-PD1 response with high accuracy (validation AUC 0.85-0.89, combined AUC 0.88) and outperforms existing signatures across all four datasets.

  metastatic pathway bulk gene elastic-net

• Divergent clonal evolution and tumor microenvironment remodeling shape gastric cancer peritoneal metastasis.

  PMID 41882239 · PMC13181027 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Substantial intra-patient heterogeneity exists between GCPM and primary tumors at both genetic and functional (transcriptomic) levels

  gastric wgs paired genes whole-genome whole-transcriptome mutational

• Human endogenous retrovirus profiling reveals heterogenous expression in cutaneous melanoma.

  PMID 41971443 · PMC13061668 · Frontiers in oncology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  HERV expression differs between primary and metastatic cutaneous melanoma

  tcga-skcm metastatic normal selected bulk consensus orf

• B-RAF and N-RAS mutations are preserved during short time in vitro propagation and differentially impact prognosis.

  PMID 17311103 · PMC1794595 · PloS one · 2007 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  B-RAF and N-RAS mutation status is well preserved (strongly concordant) between tumor tissue biopsies and corresponding short-term in vitro propagated cell lines.

  tumor biopsy-derived metastatic pcr direct survival

• Out-of-frame CBX3::ALK fusion drives ALK activation and therapy response.

  PMID 41887222 · PMC13130619 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A CBX3::ALK out-of-frame fusion was identified in a patient with metastatic melanoma

  metastatic cutaneous tumor hek293t targeted immunohistochemistry fluorescence

• The Ly6g(high) Neutrophil Subset Dictates Breast Cancer Lung Metastasis via CD8(+) T Cell Death.

  PMID 41625479 · PMC12857760 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neutrophils in the lung metastatic niche comprise two functionally distinct subsets, Ly6g^high and Ly6g^low, based on Ly6g expression level

  lung cramp cd8+ neutrophils single-cell flow genetic

• Molecular and Clinical Relevance of ZBTB38 Expression Levels in Prostate Cancer.

  PMID 32365491 · PMC7281456 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ZBTB38 mRNA expression is significantly lower in prostate cancer than in normal/benign prostate tissue, and further reduced in metastatic versus localised tumours

  localised tcga taylor metastatic microarray rna-sequencing clinico-pathological

• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Key genes AR, AKT1, UBC, CDH1, SMAD3, ROR1, and ROR2 are associated with chemotherapy resistance and poor prognosis in metastatic breast cancer

  breast tcga-brca geo gse40622 gene pan-cancer differential

• 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

• A candidate metastasis-associated DNA marker for ductal mammary carcinoma.

  PMID 12631399 · PMC154149 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RDA comparing normal and metastatic ductal breast carcinoma cell DNA identified 10 unique metastasis-associated DNA sequences (MADS) apparently lost in metastatic cells

  microdissected h&e-stained metastatic cloned representational single laser

• Mutation analysis of genes that control the G1/S cell cycle in melanoma: TP53, CDKN1A, CDKN2A, and CDKN2B.

  PMID 15819981 · PMC1097717 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TP53 gene shows heterozygous defects in 8 of 39 (20.5%) melanoma tumors, including novel point mutations and novel SNPs in intronic sequences

  metastatic melanoma genomic pcr-sscp sequencing pcr

• Detection of mutations in EGFR in circulating lung-cancer cells.

  PMID 18596266 · PMC3551471 · The New England journal of medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The CTC-chip microfluidic device isolates CTCs from NSCLC patients in sufficient quantity and purity to permit EGFR mutational analysis

  blood archived nsclc plasma microfluidic allele-specific standard

• A pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human bone metastases.

  PMID 41619722 · PMC12923970 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Constructed a pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of 62 human bone metastases (predominantly spinal) across 13 primary cancer types, with paired primary tumor and normal bone marrow samples.

  bone paired plasmacytoma malignant scrna-seq ihc infercnv

• FOXA1 mutations co-opt nascent transcription factor networks in partnership with androgen receptor to enhance prostate tumorigenicity.

  PMID 41621066 · PMC13050545 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  FOXA1 mutations in a 874-tumor cohort cluster into missense, in-frame indel, and truncation subgroups, with indels concentrated at residues M253/E255

  prostate targeted single-nucleus scatac-seq

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Genetic and epigenetic changes in primary metastatic and nonmetastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 16969349 · PMC2360724 · British journal of cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  K-Ras codon 12 mutations are significantly associated with metastatic (M+) CRC

  crc 202-patient pcr-rflp sscp immunohistochemistry

• ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639695 · PMC12958617 · BMC medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSC proportion is elevated in lymph node metastatic tumor tissue (BRCA_LNMT) compared to primary tumor (BRCA_PT)

  4t1 brca tcga-brca top single-cell spatial bulk

• Correlation between KIT expression and KIT mutation in melanoma: a study of 173 cases with emphasis on the acral-lentiginous/mucosal type.

  PMID 19718013 · PMC4120323 · Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2009 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Immunohistochemical KIT expression is significantly associated with KIT mutation status in acral lentiginous/mucosal melanoma

  melanoma immunohistochemistry pcr