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).

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• A ligand-centered framework for γδ T cell activation in colorectal cancer revealed by single-cell and transformer-based perturbation.

  PMID 41607803 · PMC12835328 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRC-infiltrating γδ T cells show varied activation levels, with the TRM-like population being the major tumor-infiltrating subtype and exhibiting the lowest effector and exhaustion signature scores.

  crc-infiltrating crc scrna-seq gene nichenet

• 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

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Annotation-free prediction of immunotherapy response in melanoma using single-cell transcriptomic data.

  PMID 41758825 · PMC12948085 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  AI-based predictive models built on unannotated scRNA-seq data (cell-by-gene expression matrices) can classify melanoma patients as ICI responders vs. non-responders

  cd45+ scrna-seq independent scrna-seq single-gene-level pathway-level

• Abnormality of the DNA double-strand-break checkpoint/repair genes, ATM, BRCA1 and TP53, in breast cancer is related to tumour grade.

  PMID 15138484 · PMC2409464 · British journal of cancer · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  High-grade breast tumours show a high frequency of LOH and/or abnormal expression of ATM, BRCA1 and TP53

  early-onset same peripheral breast allelotyping immunohistochemistry direct

• Targeted and personalized immunotherapy in lung adenocarcinoma: single-cell RNA sequencing of MAFF+ tumor cells and the therapeutic potential of FOS.

  PMID 40936936 · PMC12420628 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A highly stem-like C0 MAFF+ tumor cell subtype dominates invasive LUAD, producing chemokines and activating lipid metabolism

  luad tumor a549 single-cell infercnv pseudotime

• Tet2 modulates ER stress responses related to β-cell death and autoimmunity in diabetes.

  PMID 41782826 · PMC12955150 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Tet2-deficient NOD mice transplanted with WT bone marrow show fewer islet-infiltrating lymphocytes beginning 8–10 weeks post-transplant, primarily among CD4+ T cells

  islets islet islet-infiltrating cadaveric flow single-cell single-nucleus

• Proximal 6q, a region showing allele loss in primary breast cancer.

  PMID 7841042 · PMC2033574 · British journal of cancer · 1995 · 8 claims · 1 setups

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  A proximal region of 6q (6q13 to 6q16.3-q21) shows a markedly elevated frequency of allelic imbalance (mean 35.3%) across seven microsatellite markers, higher than background AI levels.

  paired microsatellite

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A colon cancer subtype with CD8Ahigh IDO1high tumors shows the worst survival despite high CD8 T cell infiltrates

  tcga-coad ncbi-geo tisidb gepia rna-seq tumor-infiltrating gene

• Comparative proteome analysis of breast cancer and adjacent normal breast tissues in human.

  PMID 17127214 · PMC5054074 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  15 differential protein spots were detected in 11 of 12 (91.7%) breast cancer tissue samples compared with adjacent normal tissue

  breast spots 2d-page stained sds-page 2d-page maldi-tof

• Host-derived interleukin-1α drives tumor immunosuppression by reprogramming tumor-associated myeloid cells.

  PMID 41547846 · PMC12910057 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deletion of host Il1α causes rejection/regression of transplanted breast tumors

  h605 pymt tumor-infiltrating two-week orthotopic flow single-cell

• The transcription factor EHF promotes the maturation and immunosuppression of conventional dendritic cells.

  PMID 41730908 · PMC13039115 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EHF orchestrates an immunosuppressive maturation program in cDC1s and cDC2s downstream of TLR7/8/9 sensing of self-nucleic acids

  ehf facs-sorted dss-induced lethal cd4+

• pmid-41912896

  PMID 41912896 · PMC13179135 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A COTL1-high NK cell subset mediates immune checkpoint blockade responsiveness in tsMHC-I impaired tumours

  hcc sorted orthotopic multiplex bulk single-cell

• The liver as an immunological barrier redefined by single-cell analysis.

  PMID 32176810 · PMC7218664 · Immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Emerging single-cell technologies have advanced or redefined understanding of the liver's immunological barrier function

  liver c57bl sorted pdgfrb-gfp scrna-seq single-molecule

• Pan-cancer evaluation of regulated cell death to predict overall survival and immune checkpoint inhibitor response.

  PMID 38538696 · PMC10973470 · NPJ precision oncology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RCD score, defined as the sum of ssGSEA scores of 18 RCD signatures, quantifies overall RCD signaling in a sample

  tcga gtex scrna-seq cancer bulk scrna-seq transcriptomic

• Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis.

  PMID 41639447 · PMC12935554 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) induces increased innervation and functional/transcriptional engagement of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs)

  kras-g12d tumour-bearing vagal npy2r-ires-cre whole-mount aav neurite

• CeLLTra: aligning cell names with gene expression via a pathway-informed transformer.

  PMID 41652996 · PMC12881829 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Grouping genes into pathway-defined gene sets as Transformer input tokens (instead of using individual genes or discretized bins) mitigates the long-sequence problem and improves representation learning of scRNA-Seq gene expression profiles.

  tabula tumor-infiltrating scrna-seq

• ZFP148 is a transcriptional repressor of cytolytic effector CD8(+) T cell differentiation.

  PMID 41896465 · PMC13043298 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ZFP148 is enriched in CD8+ T progenitor (T PRO) cells and its expression declines during differentiation into effector (T EFF) and exhausted (T EX) cells

  p14 splenic cd8+ b16-gp scrna-seq flow tcr