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).

• A hormetic transcriptional program coregulates invasion, proliferation and dormancy to define metastatic potential.

  PMID 41781391 · PMC13077004 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Prrx1 is a master regulator of dissemination that, beyond promoting invasion, represses proliferation (via Ccnd1/2, Cdkn2a/b/c) and activates a dormancy program (Gas6, Mme, Ogn)

  infiltrating metabric facs-sorted pymt immunohistochemistry bioinformatic rt-qpcr

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• Integrated spatial transcriptomics and pan-cancer XGBoost modeling uncover spatial drivers of immune exclusion and predict immunotherapy response.

  PMID 41925746 · PMC13046951 · Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A three-step computational framework (ImmCeRNA) identified 6,070 immune-related ceRNA interactions across 27 cancer types by integrating expression correlation and experimental validation data.

  cancer pan-cancer single lung bulk database single-cell

• Identification of cycling regulatory T cell precursors as conductors of immune escape during breast carcinoma progression.

  PMID 41997138 · PMC13213619 · Cancer cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel proliferative Treg precursor state, cycling Treg (cycTreg: FOXP3^int, MKI67^hi, IKZF2/4^int-hi), is absent in normal breast, low in DCIS, and strongly expanded in IBC

  normal mammary dcis tumor-draining scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• scSurvival: Single-Cell Survival Analysis of Clinical Cancer Cohort Data at Cellular Resolution.

  PMID 42013315 · PMC13133615 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scSurvival, an attention-based multiple-instance Cox regression framework, models each tumor sample as an ensemble of cells to predict survival outcomes at both patient and single-cell levels

  simulated melanoma liver higher scrna-seq differential

• Distinct tumor genomic signatures underlie canine macrophage polarization.

  PMID 42030266 · PMC13108725 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Canine cancer cell lines show marked heterogeneity in macrophage polarization capacity, largely independent of histologic tumor type

  monocyte-derived canine dh82 rna-seq elisa 13-plex bulk

• Multi-Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals That EREG-Driven TME Crosstalk Defines Anti-EGFR Response in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 42043480 · PMC13115984 · Cancer medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EGFRI eligibility (defined by left-sidedness, RAS/BRAF wild-type, MSS) stratifies cancer cell transcriptomic characteristics more strongly than sidedness alone.

  crc epcam+ aggregated cancer scrna-seq copy pseudobulk

• Keratin 5 marks cancer-propagating cells sustained by an osteopontin-producing niche in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma.

  PMID 42111394 · PMC13155427 · Cancer heterogeneity and plasticity · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KRT5+ cells represent bona fide cancer-propagating cells (CPCs) in HGSC

  hgsc skov3 facs-sorted nod immunohistochemistry lentiviral organoid

• Characterizing Neutrophil Subtypes in Cancer Using scRNA Sequencing Demonstrates the Importance of IL1β/CXCR2 Axis in Generation of Metastasis-specific Neutrophils.

  PMID 38358352 · PMC10903300 · Cancer research communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Two main neutrophil subtypes exist in primary tumors: an activated subtype sharing transcriptomic signatures with healthy neutrophils, and a tumor-specific subtype.

  colorectal sorted integrated neutrophil scrna-seq bulk immunohistochemistry

• Sex differences in cancer risk among germline p53 mutation carriers.

  PMID 15280910 · PMC2409855 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Cancer risk in germline p53 mutation carriers differs by sex, with females at higher risk than males in adulthood, was first reported by Chompret et al 2000, three years before a confirmatory study by Hwang et al 2003 claimed similar findings without citing the earlier work.

  children first-degree p53 germline family-based

• 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

• DeepProg: an ensemble of deep-learning and machine-learning models for prognosis prediction using multi-omics data.

  PMID 34261540 · PMC8281595 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  DeepProg is a novel ensemble framework of deep-learning and machine-learning approaches that robustly predicts patient survival subtypes using multi-omics data

  cancer breast hepatocarcinoma tcga multi-omics gene rna-seq

• Unveiling prognostics biomarkers of tyrosine metabolism reprogramming in liver cancer by cross-platform gene expression analyses.

  PMID 32542016 · PMC7295234 · PloS one · 2020 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Five tyrosine catabolic enzymes (TAT, HPD, HGD, GSTZ1, FAH) are downregulated in HCC compared to normal liver at mRNA and/or protein level

  oncomine tcga-lihc gse89377 hcc pan-cancer bulk microarray

• Colorectal Cancer Prediction Based on Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis and Variational Auto-Encoder.

  PMID 32825264 · PMC7563725 · Biomolecules · 2020 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Combining WGCNA hub genes and VAE 10-dimensional representation as features for an SVM classifier achieves high accuracy in predicting CRC

  colorectal same combined meturquoise microarray differential batch

• Epigenome screening highlights that JMJD6 confers an epigenetic vulnerability and mediates sunitinib sensitivity in renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 33634984 · PMC7882098 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  JMJD6 is identified as a potent epigenetic vulnerability/fitness gene in RCC by integrating GeCK CRISPR screening data with TCGA-KIRC epigenetic regulator survival analysis

  pan-cancer tcga-kirc rcc balb crispr rna-seq mtt

• Prediction of prognostic signatures in triple-negative breast cancer based on the differential expression analysis via NanoString nCounter immune panel.

  PMID 33138797 · PMC7607642 · BMC cancer · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  edgeR-based DEG selection is more appropriate for feature selection than Elastic Net when sample sizes are small.

  ffpe same nanostring tnbc nanostring immunohistochemistry differential

• Downregulation of Splicing Factor PTBP1 Curtails FBXO5 Expression to Promote Cellular Senescence in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 39057099 · PMC11276454 · Current issues in molecular biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PTBP1 is significantly upregulated across multiple cancer types including LUAD, and higher PTBP1 levels are associated with worse LUAD patient survival

  cancer luad fibroblast a549 pan-cancer differential replicative

• Autoencoder Networks Decipher the Association between Lung Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease.

  PMID 36518809 · PMC9744611 · Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  AE networks trained on the 266 shared DEGs reveal a comorbidity (positive correlation) relationship between Alzheimer's disease and lung cancer, rather than the inverse relationship suggested by prior epidemiological studies.

  integrated expression overlapped moderated autoencoder pathway

• Enhancing chemotherapy response prediction via matched colorectal tumor-organoid gene expression analysis and network-based biomarker selection.

  PMID 39754813 · PMC11754497 · Translational oncology · 2025 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A consensus WGCNA approach combining matched tumor-organoid and independent organoid drug-response expression data identifies gene modules and hub genes predictive of 5-FU chemotherapy response

  colorectal matched combined expression microarray rna-seq consensus

• A platelet-related signature for predicting the prognosis and immunotherapy benefit in bladder cancer based on machine learning combinations.

  PMID 39280688 · PMC11399026 · Translational andrology and urology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An Enet (alpha=0.4) machine-learning algorithm built from 10 platelet-related genes yields the optimal platelet-related signature (PRS) for bladder cancer prognosis, with average C-index 0.73

  bladder tcga bulk univariate integrative