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).

• Cancer-wide in silico analyses using differentially expressed genes demonstrate the functions and clinical relevance of JAG, DLL, and NOTCH.

  PMID 39074091 · PMC11285958 · PloS one · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  JAG, DLL, and NOTCH family gene/protein expression varies diversely across 15 cancer types relative to normal tissue, sometimes discordant between mRNA and protein levels.

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• Ectopic expression of BEX genes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  PMID 40811813 · PMC12830129 · Blood advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Bex1 (and to a lesser extent Bex4) is ectopically expressed in Pten-deficient mouse T-ALL blasts

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• Estrogen Production in Pancreatic Cancer Shapes a Tumor-Suppressive Stromal Microenvironment.

  PMID 41258799 · PMC12862343 · Cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Serum levels of stromal biomarkers associated with favorable outcomes were significantly higher in female patients with PDAC than in male patients

  pdac pdx magnetic bioinformatic single-nucleus

• A cellular epigenetic classification system for glioblastoma.

  PMID 41499453 · PMC13128495 · Neuro-oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ITHresolveGBM, a hierarchical two-step NMF method, deconvolutes bulk GBM DNA methylation profiles into three non-malignant (immune, glial, neuronal) and three malignant components

  gbm healthy pseudo-bulk tcga illumina single-cell deconvolution

• A P4HA2 hypoxia signature derived from single cell atlas stratifies conserved subtypes with prognostic significance in cervical squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 41559646 · PMC12910786 · BMC cancer · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A tumor cell metaprogram (MP7) identified from scRNA-seq of CSCC shows elevated hypoxia, invasion, metastasis, proliferation, and angiogenesis scores compared to other metaprograms.

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• POSTN(+) fibroblast‑secreted small extracellular vesicles drive macrophage M2 polarization through BMP4/BMPR2/Smad signaling.

  PMID 41645751 · PMC12891935 · Oncology reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of two HNSCC scRNA-seq datasets reveals two distinct fibroblast subtypes: POSTN- and POSTN+ fibroblasts

  hnscc tcga-hnscc oscc oscc-derived single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• The relationship between PLOD1 expression level and glioma prognosis investigated using public databases.

  PMID 34040895 · PMC8127981 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PLOD1 mRNA expression is significantly higher in glioma tissue than in normal brain tissue

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• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• 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

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• Integrating multi-omics data reveals the antitumor role and clinical benefits of gamma-delta T cells in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 40197136 · PMC11974128 · BMC cancer · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High γδT cell infiltration is associated with favorable prognosis in TNBC but not in HR-positive or HER2-positive breast cancer

  tnbc tcga-brca metabric single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• Effect of PAIP1 on the metastatic potential and prognostic significance in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 35153296 · PMC8841500 · International journal of oral science · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PAIP1 mRNA and protein levels are increased in OSCC/HNSCC tissues and cell lines compared to normal tissue/cells

  hnscc tcga cptac oscc microarray rna-seq quantitative

• 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

• Analyzing biomarker discovery: Estimating the reproducibility of biomarker sets.

  PMID 35901020 · PMC9333302 · PloS one · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Non-reproducibility is a common problem in biomarker discovery: independently derived biomarker sets for the same phenotype frequently share very few features across studies

  gse7390 geo ega tcga-brca t-test-based reproducibility genome-wide

• Similarities and Differences in Gene Expression Networks Between the Breast Cancer Cell Line Michigan Cancer Foundation-7 and Invasive Human Breast Cancer Tissues.

  PMID 34056582 · PMC8155268 · Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MCF-7 cell lines and human breast cancer tissues show only minimal similarity in biological processes, though some fundamental functions like cell cycle are conserved.

  mcf-7 breast wgcna-derived top bulk microarray rsem-normalized

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An individualized Bayesian causal discovery framework can learn tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) by combining single-cell gene expression module (GEM) discovery, bulk tumor deconvolution, and individualized causal network learning.

  hnscc cd45+ cd8+ tcga single-cell bulk pseudo-time

• Molecular Biomarker of Drug Resistance Developed From Patient-Derived Organoids Predicts Survival of Colorectal Cancer Patients.

  PMID 35425715 · PMC9004628 · Frontiers in oncology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Patient-derived colorectal cancer organoids (CRCOs) can be established from surgical CRC tissue with an 82% success rate (41/50)

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• Identification of a novel lncRNA prognostic signature and analysis of functional lncRNA AC115619.1 in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 37614318 · PMC10442647 · Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A six-lncRNA prognostic signature (LINC02428, LINC02163, AC008549.1, AC115619.1, CASC9, LINC02362) predicts overall survival in HCC patients

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• A global database for modeling tumor-immune cell communication.

  PMID 37438390 · PMC10338499 · Scientific data · 2023 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  TICCom integrates 739 experimentally-validated or manually-curated TIC interactions collected from more than 3,000 literatures

  pubmed scrna-seq tcga basal manual scrna-seq bulk

• Inference of Subpathway Activity Profiles Reveals Metabolism Abnormal Subpathway Regions in Glioblastoma Multiforme.

  PMID 33072547 · PMC7533644 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A GSVA-based method for constructing a metabolic subpathway activity score matrix accurately identifies abnormal GBM metabolic targets

  metabolic gbm tcga u87-mg k-clique gsva-based survival

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq