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).

• Predicting Bone Metastasis Using Gene Expression-Based Machine Learning Models.

  PMID 34858485 · PMC8631472 · Frontiers in genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A DNN model built on 34 top-ranked hub genes achieves the highest prediction accuracy (AUC 92.11%) for distinguishing primary from bone-metastasized tumors

  breast degs geo tcga microarray protein-protein machine

• A comprehensive framework for analysis of microRNA sequencing data in metastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 35047825 · PMC8759566 · NAR cancer · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Five miRNAs (Mir-210_3p, Mir-191_5p, Mir-8-P1b_3p, Mir-1307_5p, Mir-155_5p) are up-regulated at multiple metastatic CRC sites compared to primary CRC.

  pcrc same mli ngs mirna bioinformatics differential

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• 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

• Expression of neurofibromin 1 in colorectal cancer and cetuximab resistance.

  PMID 34779495 · PMC8611403 · Oncology reports · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  NF1 is highly expressed in cetuximab-sensitive colorectal cancer cell lines (NCI-H508, Caco2) but weakly expressed in cetuximab-resistant lines (KM12C, SW480)

  crc cetuximab-sensitive nf1 cetuximab-resistant western sirna dapi

• FOXM1 inhibitor, RCM‑1, enhances venetoclax mediated apoptosis through downregulation of ATP2B4 in rhabdomyosarcoma.

  PMID 41789627 · PMC12987556 · International journal of oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combination therapy of RCM-1 and venetoclax inhibits RMS tumor growth more efficiently than venetoclax alone in an animal model by decreasing proliferation and inducing apoptosis

  rms injected muscle cck-8 caspase subcutaneous

• Patient-Derived Meningioma Organoids: A Reliable Model for Studying Human Tumor Pathophysiology.

  PMID 39941893 · PMC11817449 · Cancers · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A standardized, reproducible protocol can establish meningioma organoids (MEN-Os) from patient-resected tumor tissue without mechanical/enzymatic dissociation, using serum-free medium lacking growth factors or exogenous ECM.

  patient-resected men-os parent oct-embedded organoid brightfield h&e

• Molecular genetic evidence for unifocal origin of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer and for minor clonal divergence.

  PMID 7577492 · PMC2033953 · British journal of cancer · 1995 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  LOH analysis has higher sensitivity than DNA flow cytometry for detecting unifocal origin of bilateral ovarian tumors

  bilateral paraffin-embedded ovarian peripheral loh flow isolation

• Intragenic homozygous deletions of MTS1 gene in gastric cancer in Taiwan.

  PMID 8957063 · PMC5921000 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1996 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  Homozygous deletions of exon 1 of the MTS1 gene were found in 5 of 55 (9.1%) primary gastric tumors.

  gastric pcr tumor southern pcr direct

• Heterogeneity of p53 mutational status in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 9617346 · PMC5921814 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1998 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Three of 10 esophageal squamous cell carcinomas showed heterogeneous p53 mutational status, but only within the pre-invasive (carcinoma in situ) area.

  esophageal paraffin-embedded genomic biotinylated immunohistochemistry microdissection nested

• CD155/PVR plays a key role in cell motility during tumor cell invasion and migration.

  PMID 15471548 · PMC524493 · BMC cancer · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A FALI-coupled scFv antibody library screen identifies CD155 (poliovirus receptor) as a mediator of tumor cell invasion

  ht1080 u87mg normal 96-well transwell immunoblot

• An integrated approach of immunogenomics and bioinformatics to identify new Tumor Associated Antigens (TAA) for mammary cancer immunological prevention.

  PMID 16351756 · PMC1866378 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Meta-analysis of two independent BALB-neuT transcription profiling studies can identify new TAA candidates usable instead of or with Her2

  balb-neut normal breast probe microarray statistical enrichment

• A critical reassessment of the role of mitochondria in tumorigenesis.

  PMID 16187796 · PMC1240051 · PLoS medicine · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A significant number of published medical mtDNA cancer studies are based on obviously flawed sequencing results.

  hepatocellular papillary prostate tissues mtdna mutational

• Preponderance of the oncogenic V599E and V599K mutations in B-raf kinase domain is enhanced in melanoma cutaneous/subcutaneous metastases.

  PMID 15935100 · PMC1164406 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  B-raf exon 15 somatic mutations occur in 24/60 (40%) of cutaneous/subcutaneous melanoma metastases, similar to the frequency in primary melanomas

  paraffin-embedded cloned same predicted pcr cloning blastx

• Mining expressed sequence tags identifies cancer markers of clinical interest.

  PMID 17078886 · PMC1635568 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An EST-mining approach (Fisher Exact Test on tumor vs. non-tumor library hit counts) identifies differentially expressed transcripts with an estimated false discovery rate below 22% when human and mouse screens are combined.

  dbest cancer gene est human-mouse leave-one-out

• Association between cigarette smoking, APC mutations and the risk of developing sporadic colorectal adenomas and carcinomas.

  PMID 16545110 · PMC1475604 · BMC cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Smoking is associated with adenoma and CRC development, with the association strongest in tumors lacking APC truncation mutations

  formalin-fixed ffpe paired study direct pcr restriction

• Array-based profiling of reference-independent methylation status (aPRIMES) identifies frequent promoter methylation and consecutive downregulation of ZIC2 in pediatric medulloblastoma.

  PMID 17344319 · PMC1874664 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  aPRIMES is a novel array-based method that detects direct (absolute) methylation status of CGIs via competitive hybridization of McrBC-digested (methylated) versus HpaII/BstUI-digested (unmethylated) DNA from the same genome, avoiding reference-tissue and copy-number biases

  pediatric tumor eight desmoplastic aprimes bisulfite quantitative

• An oncogenomics-based in vivo RNAi screen identifies tumor suppressors in liver cancer.

  PMID 19012953 · PMC2990916 · Cell · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  shRNA pools targeting genes recurrently deleted in human HCC accelerate hepatocarcinogenesis in vivo, whereas randomly selected shRNA pools do not.

  hepatocellular p53 genomic hepatoma array-based pooled shrna

• Nutritional genomics, polyphenols, diets, and their impact on dietetics.

  PMID 18954579 · PMC2692306 · Journal of the American Dietetic Association · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nutrient-gene interactions, exemplified by the MTHFR C677T polymorphism, modulate individual metabolic responses (e.g., homocysteine metabolism) and can be offset by adjusting nutrient intake such as folate

  mammary embryonic subjects rats gene histone carcinogen-induced

• CHD5, a tumor suppressor gene deleted from 1p36.31 in neuroblastomas.

  PMID 18577749 · PMC2483574 · Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CHD5 promoter is highly methylated in neuroblastoma cell lines with 1p deletion and absent CHD5 expression (NLF, IMR5)

  neuroblastoma nlf athymic methylation-specific quantitative soft