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).

• In vivo microscopy reveals macrophage polarization locally promotes coherent microtubule dynamics in migrating cancer cells.

  PMID 32665556 · PMC7360550 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cancer cells in vivo display higher coherent orientation and alignment of MT dynamics along their cell major axis than 2D in vitro cultures, and distinct from 3D collagen gel cultures.

  ht1080 es2 ht1080-eb3-mapple tumor intravital time-lapse confocal

• Identification of a novel 10 immune-related genes signature as a prognostic biomarker panel for gastric cancer.

  PMID 34382341 · PMC8446556 · Cancer medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A 10 immune-related gene signature (BMPR1B, GHR, IL11RA, INHBB, NPR3, OBP2A, PTN, R3HDML, TAC1, TPM2) was constructed via WGCNA combined with LASSO-Cox and predicts overall survival in gastric cancer

  gastric tcga-stad microarray rna-seq immune

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis is proposed to overcome methodological inconsistencies.

  breast ctcs nsclc neuroblastoma scrna-seq

• 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

• SIGMA: a system for integrative genomic microarray analysis of cancer genomes.

  PMID 17192189 · PMC1764892 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  SIGMA is a user-friendly, web-based Java application for visualization and integrative analysis of array CGH data across multiple platforms.

  cancer lung breast array medip segmentation

• Recurrent KRAS codon 146 mutations in human colorectal cancer.

  PMID 16969076 · PMC2714972 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KRAS A146 missense mutations are a recurrent, previously unrecognized class of somatic mutation in colorectal cancer

  colorectal sporadic familial cancer pcr direct chi-squared

• Prospective health care: the second transformation of medicine.

  PMID 16522218 · PMC1431721 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Predictive biomarkers (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) will enable quantification of disease risk and anticipation of onset before pathological damage occurs.

  cancer circulating breast population gene-expression proteomic 21-gene

• Comparative analysis of cancer genes in the human and chimpanzee genomes.

  PMID 16438707 · PMC1382208 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  All 333 examined human cancer genes have intact, highly conserved orthologs in the chimpanzee genome (99.38% protein identity).

  chimpanzee non-human cancer comparative pcr targeted

• The field of tissue injury in the lung and airway.

  PMID 19138985 · PMC2705781 · Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Field cancerization and the field of injury reflect molecular changes (genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic) present in histologically normal-appearing tissue distant from and independent of a tumor, throughout the carcinogen-exposed respiratory epithelium

  bronchial saliva resected paraffin-embedded whole-genome mtdna methylation-specific

• Mutations in the focal adhesion targeting region of deleted in liver cancer-1 attenuate their expression and function.

  PMID 18829524 · PMC2597479 · Cancer research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The DLC-1 fragment spanning residues 201-500 is sufficient for focal adhesion targeting (FAT region)

  a549 prostate colon mda-mb-468 immunofluorescence pcr colony

• The cancer secretome: a reservoir of biomarkers.

  PMID 18796163 · PMC2562990 · Journal of translational medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer secretome analysis is a promising reservoir for identifying novel, non-invasive cancer biomarkers, addressing limitations of whole blood/serum proteomics

  a549 m-be sw480 neoplastic 2-de dige icat

• Cancer screening: a mathematical model relating secreted blood biomarker levels to tumor sizes.

  PMID 18715113 · PMC2517618 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A linear one-compartment mathematical model can relate secreted blood tumor biomarker levels to tumor burden/size at steady state

  ovarian serum model culture clinical mathematical

• Variants in the ATM gene associated with a reduced risk of contralateral breast cancer.

  PMID 18701470 · PMC2562548 · Cancer research · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Carriers of common ATM variants (>=1% frequency) have a statistically significant reduction in risk of contralateral breast cancer (CBC)

  peripheral wecare atm mutation case-control variant

• Genomic profiling of microRNA and messenger RNA reveals deregulated microRNA expression in prostate cancer.

  PMID 18676839 · PMC2597340 · Cancer research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MicroRNA processing components (Dicer, DGCR8) and microRNA host genes (MCM7, C9orf5) are significantly up-regulated in prostate tumors versus non-tumor tissue

  prostate subset lncap 22rv1 microrna quantitative western

• An integrative genomic and proteomic analysis of PIK3CA, PTEN, and AKT mutations in breast cancer.

  PMID 18676830 · PMC2680495 · Cancer research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PIK3CA mutations are more common in hormone receptor-positive and HER2-positive tumors than in basal-like breast cancers

  breast hormone early-stage mass sanger reverse-phase

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

  solid fetal cd133+ breast facs neurosphere genome-wide

• DNA methylation of cancer genome.

  PMID 19960550 · PMC2940836 · Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cancer epigenome alterations fall into two main categories: hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes and hypomethylation of oncogenes or heterochromatin.

  embryonic germ heterozygous cancer gene hypomorphic methyltransferase

• Nitrosative stress-induced s-glutathionylation of protein disulfide isomerase leads to activation of the unfolded protein response.

  PMID 19773442 · PMC2756322 · Cancer research · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PABA/NO treatment causes S-glutathionylation (not S-nitrosylation) of PDI in cells and in vitro

  skov3 recombinant mtt daf-fm-da immunoprecipitation

• Discovering cancer genes by integrating network and functional properties.

  PMID 19765316 · PMC2758898 · BMC medical genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Cancer genes have distinct PPI network topology (higher connectivity, higher clustering coefficient, shorter path length to known cancer genes) compared to non-cancer genes

  genes gene colon ppi pfam term

• Utilization of genomic signatures to identify phenotype-specific drugs.

  PMID 19714244 · PMC2729377 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A RAS pathway gene expression signature applied to NCI-60 cells identifies compounds selectively active against RAS-activated cells, including the MEK inhibitor Hypothemycin

  nci-60 breast mda-mb-231 signature-drug gene signature