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 single cell characterisation of human embryogenesis identifies pluripotency transitions and putative anterior hypoblast centre.

  PMID 34140473 · PMC8211662 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  The embryonic epiblast progressively transitions from a naïve to a primed pluripotent state as it develops from pre- to post-implantation.

  embryo single-cell logistic immunofluorescence

• Zebrafish functional xenograft vasculature platform identifies PF-502 as a durable vasculature normalization drug.

  PMID 37680473 · PMC10480778 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 70

  The zebrafish functional xenograft vasculature platform (zFXVP) enables visualization and quantification of structurally and functionally realistic tumor vasculature formation.

  zebrafish endothelial tumor fluorescence edu dextran-tomato

• Recurrent RNA edits in human preimplantation potentially enhance maternal mRNA clearance.

  PMID 36543858 · PMC9772385 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Compiled the largest human embryonic A-to-I editome to date from 2071 RNA-seq transcriptomes and identified thousands of per-stage Recurrent Embryonic Edits (REEs, present in ≥50% of samples per stage)

  preimplantation single uniparental embryos rna-seq paired gene

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• Unexpected novel relational links uncovered by extensive developmental profiling of nuclear receptor expression.

  PMID 17997606 · PMC2065881 · PLoS genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  NR genes are predominantly expressed during organogenesis rather than early embryogenesis

  danio zebrafish coregulator rt-pcr whole-mount phylogenetic

• Context dependent function of APPb enhancer identified using enhancer trap-containing BACs as transgenes in zebrafish.

  PMID 18832376 · PMC2577333 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel enhancer trap method retrofitting BACs with Tn10-based transposons enables nontargeted, functional mapping of noncontiguous cis-regulatory elements as zebrafish transgenes.

  zebrafish bac genomic transgenic field bac

• Signals controlling neural crest contributions to the heart.

  PMID 20490374 · PMC2873602 · Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Semaphorin3C (from outflow myocardium) signals through PlexinA2 (on neural crest) to guide cardiac neural crest migration into the outflow tract

  sema3c chick cardiac genetic pharmacologic conditional

• E3RC: A step-by-step computational protocol for exploring enhancer RNA expression and regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  PMID 40716058 · PMC12318280 · STAR protocols · 2025 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  E3RC is a computational framework for identifying and quantifying eRNAs and characterizing their expression and transcriptional regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  preimplantation genome erna bulk computational motif

• Pre-implantation embryo metabolism identified by PEMA reveals endogenous lactate insufficiency contributes to pre-implantation development arrest.

  PMID 42272466 · PMC13247451 · Fundamental research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  PEMA, a Ribo-seq-weighted computational framework, characterizes metabolic states of human and mouse pre-implantation embryos more accurately than Compass

  8-cell ch3pn pre-implantation computational single-embryo cut&tag

• Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice.

  PMID 40629142 · PMC12321585 · Nature neuroscience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Ganglionic eminence (ventral) progenitors maintain stable differentiation competence throughout neurogenesis, generating a consistent set of postmitotic precursor states at all stages, unlike dorsal cortical progenitors whose differentiation competence changes gradually.

  dlx5 progenitors sections cortical scrna-seq trackerseq flashtag

• 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

• TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes.

  PMID 35580127 · PMC9159589 · PLoS genetics · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pigmentation genes are only expressed in mitfa-expressing zebrafish melanocyte-lineage cells that also express tfap2 paralogs

  gfp+ sk-mel-28 tfap2a single-cell crispr atac-seq

• Gli1-expressing stromal cells are highly reparative precursors of long-lived chondroprogenitors in the fetal murine limb.

  PMID 41253754 · PMC12627582 · Nature communications · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Fetal Gli1+ cells (including cells outside the cartilage) are the precursors of postnatal long-lived chondroprogenitors and give rise to most growth-plate chondrocytes juvenile/adult.

  fetal left-cart-p21moe growth gli1creer single-nuclei bulk cre-based

• A chromosome-scale genome assembly and karyotype of the ctenophore Hormiphora californensis.

  PMID 34545398 · PMC8527503 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A chromosome-scale genome assembly of H. californensis spans 110 Mb in 44 scaffolds, with 99.47% of bases in 13 scaffolds

  californensis chromosome pacbio illumina

• Early life-stage thermal resilience is determined by climate-linked regulatory variation.

  PMID 41505517 · PMC12799179 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic heat tolerance in D. melanogaster is determined by climate-linked regulatory genetic variation at loci on chromosomes 2R and X

  melanogaster simulated synthetic wild-collected heat-shock pool-seq drift-only

• Lack of involvement of known DNA methyltransferases in familial hydatidiform mole implies the involvement of other factors in establishment of imprinting in the human female germline.

  PMID 12546714 · PMC149328 · BMC genetics · 2003 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  A human oocyte-specific DNMT1 isoform (DNMT1o), driven by a novel upstream exon 1o, is expressed in mature oocytes and early embryos but not in somatic tissues

  oocytes genomic fbhm population rt-pcr est direct

• The revolution of the biology of the genome.

  PMID 15040884 · PMC7091781 · Cell research · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Polyploidization and gene duplication are the major mechanisms increasing eukaryotic genome size.

  genome drosophila schizosaccharomyces gene est mount comparative

• Tbx5 drives Aldh1a2 expression to regulate a RA-Hedgehog-Wnt gene regulatory network coordinating cardiopulmonary development.

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tbx5 directly maintains Aldh1a2 expression in the foregut lateral plate mesoderm/pSHF via an evolutionarily conserved intronic enhancer.

  micro-dissected dissected e9.5 xenopus bulk rt-qpcr whole-mount

• Cell fixation and preservation for droplet-based single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 28526029 · PMC5438562 · BMC biology · 2017 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Methanol fixation stabilizes and preserves dissociated cells for weeks without compromising single-cell RNA-seq data quality

  hek293 dissociated facs-sorted hek drop-seq bulk trizol