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).

• Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma.

  PMID 34654806 · PMC8519947 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Pathway-based signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens (PASS-ON) are highly predictive of response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma, achieving validation AUCs of 0.85–0.89.

  metastatic bulk

• Gene Dosage Analysis on the Single-Cell Transcriptomes Linking Cotranslational Protein Targeting to Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

  PMID 34577617 · PMC8472593 · Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A computational framework integrating independently measured CNV (DNA sequencing) and single-cell RNA-seq from the same patients identifies recurrent concordant copy number gain and gene upregulation (CNG-UP) events and functional modules at the single-cell level.

  metastatic top breast tnbc single-cell functional mutational

• Advances in genomic and pharmacokinetic profiling for clinical stratification of metastatic breast cancer.

  PMID 41369820 · PMC12799884 · Discover oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight gene modules linked to metastasis were identified via scored network analysis and validated through pathway databases.

  metastatic tcga-brca homo gse40622 gene bulk rt-pcr

• Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape of Right-Sided Colon Cancer Reveals Cellular and Molecular Features of Metastatic Potential.

  PMID 41898210 · PMC13024220 · Biomedicines · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Liver metastatic potential in RCC is marked by stem-like tumor states, metabolic plasticity, and microenvironmental remodeling.

  right-sided single integrated malignant single-cell copy dimensionality

• B-RAF and N-RAS mutations are preserved during short time in vitro propagation and differentially impact prognosis.

  PMID 17311103 · PMC1794595 · PloS one · 2007 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  B-RAF and N-RAS mutation status is well preserved (strongly concordant) between tumor tissue biopsies and corresponding short-term in vitro propagated cell lines.

  tumor biopsy-derived metastatic pcr direct survival

• Comprehensive analysis of metastatic gastric cancer tumour cells using single-cell RNA-seq.

  PMID 33441952 · PMC7806779 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CDK12, ERBB2, and CLDN11 are overexpressed in metastatic lymph node gastric cancer and serve as candidate lymph node metastasis marker genes.

  tumour gastric qc-passed single-cell immunofluorescence immunohistochemistry

• geneshot: gene-level metagenomics identifies genome islands associated with immunotherapy response.

  PMID 33952321 · PMC8097837 · Genome biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  geneshot is a gene-level metagenomic bioinformatics tool that clusters de novo assembled protein-coding genes into co-abundant gene groups (CAGs) to reduce dimensionality and generate testable hypotheses from WGS microbiome data

  stool deduplicated reference whole-genome taxonomic functional

• A candidate metastasis-associated DNA marker for ductal mammary carcinoma.

  PMID 12631399 · PMC154149 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RDA comparing normal and metastatic ductal breast carcinoma cell DNA identified 10 unique metastasis-associated DNA sequences (MADS) apparently lost in metastatic cells

  microdissected h&e-stained metastatic cloned representational single laser

• Mutation analysis of genes that control the G1/S cell cycle in melanoma: TP53, CDKN1A, CDKN2A, and CDKN2B.

  PMID 15819981 · PMC1097717 · BMC cancer · 2005 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TP53 gene shows heterozygous defects in 8 of 39 (20.5%) melanoma tumors, including novel point mutations and novel SNPs in intronic sequences

  metastatic melanoma genomic pcr-sscp sequencing pcr

• Detection of mutations in EGFR in circulating lung-cancer cells.

  PMID 18596266 · PMC3551471 · The New England journal of medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The CTC-chip microfluidic device isolates CTCs from NSCLC patients in sufficient quantity and purity to permit EGFR mutational analysis

  blood archived nsclc plasma microfluidic allele-specific standard

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are more abundant in the circulation of metastatic melanoma patients who respond to anti-PD-1 therapy than in non-responders, before and during therapy.

  peripheral cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived pbmc high-dimensional single-cell flow

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Application of proteomics in the study of tumor metastasis.

  PMID 15862116 · PMC5172469 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cell function is directly regulated through proteins, not genes or mRNA, so metastasis-related gene findings need protein-level validation via proteomics.

  young metastatic hepatocellular lines microarray 2de cdna

• Genetic and epigenetic changes in primary metastatic and nonmetastatic colorectal cancer.

  PMID 16969349 · PMC2360724 · British journal of cancer · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  K-Ras codon 12 mutations are significantly associated with metastatic (M+) CRC

  crc 202-patient pcr-rflp sscp immunohistochemistry

• Correlation between KIT expression and KIT mutation in melanoma: a study of 173 cases with emphasis on the acral-lentiginous/mucosal type.

  PMID 19718013 · PMC4120323 · Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2009 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Immunohistochemical KIT expression is significantly associated with KIT mutation status in acral lentiginous/mucosal melanoma

  melanoma immunohistochemistry pcr

• Molecular and Clinical Relevance of ZBTB38 Expression Levels in Prostate Cancer.

  PMID 32365491 · PMC7281456 · Cancers · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  ZBTB38 expression is decreased in localised prostate cancer and further decreased in metastatic prostate cancer compared to non-cancerous prostate tissue

  prostate localised gene rna-sequencing clinico-pathological

• Extensive androgen receptor enhancer heterogeneity in primary prostate cancers underlies transcriptional diversity and metastatic potential.

  PMID 36450752 · PMC9712620 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AR enhancer/chromatin binding usage is highly heterogeneous between primary prostate tumors, with <5% of all AR binding sites shared by half of tumors analyzed.

  prostate normal ar+ pca chip-seq rna-seq massively

• RADAR: differential analysis of MeRIP-seq data with a random effect model.

  PMID 31870409 · PMC6927177 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RADAR is a novel analytical tool for differential methylation analysis of MeRIP-seq data combining gene-level INPUT normalization with a Poisson random effect model.

  simulated fallopian pancreatic liver merip-seq m6a-merip-seq pca

• Differential Gene Expression and Methylation Analysis of Melanoma in TCGA Database to Further Study the Expression Pattern of KYNU in Melanoma.

  PMID 35893303 · PMC9329910 · Journal of personalized medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KYNU expression is decreased in melanoma despite a high KYNU mutation rate in the TCGA database

  tcga-skcm melanoma keratinocytes differential copy methylation

• High DNA methylation age deceleration defines an aggressive phenotype with immunoexclusion environments in endometrial carcinoma.

  PMID 37388735 · PMC10303802 · Frontiers in immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Almost 90% of TCGA EC tumors exhibit DNA methylation age deceleration (DNAmad) relative to patient chronological age as assessed by the Horvath clock

  tumors metastatic methylation bulk kegg