Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Deciphering the chemical language of inbred and wild mouse conspecific scents

    Maximilian Nagel, Marco Niestroj ... Marc Spehr
    Parallel chemical and physiological profiling of conspecific chemosensory communication in mice identifies both common and unique strategies for vomeronasal signaling of sex and strain.
    1. Developmental Biology

    FMNL2 regulates actin for endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria distribution in oocyte meiosis

    Meng-Hao Pan, Kun-Huan Zhang ... Shao-Chen Sun
    FMNL2 associates with Formin2 and Arp2/3 complex for actin assembly, which further regulates spindle migration and INF2/Cofilin-related organelle dynamics during mammalian oocyte maturation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional diversity of dopamine axons in prefrontal cortex during classical conditioning

    Kenta Abe, Yuki Kambe ... Tatsuo Sato
    Two-photon calcium imaging revealed that many mesocortical dopamine axons show enhanced selectivity for aversive cue processing during classical conditioning.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Caenorhabditis elegans Dicer acts with the RIG-I-like helicase DRH-1 and RDE-4 to cleave dsRNA

    Claudia D Consalvo, Adedeji M Aderounmu ... Brenda L Bass
    Biochemical and structural analyses unravel how two RIG-I-like helicases function together to promote antiviral defense and illustrates the diverse ways innate immunity evolved.
    1. Neuroscience

    Jointly looking to the past and the future in visual working memory

    Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Freek van Ede
    When memorising dynamic visual objects, the brain codes for both the past and the anticipated future object location and co-activates both codes when selecting memories for guiding behaviour.
    1. Cell Biology

    Mecp2 fine-tunes quiescence exit by targeting nuclear receptors

    Jun Yang, Shitian Zou ... Xiaochun Bai
    Mecp2 expression is cell cycle-dependent and negatively regulates quiescence exit.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Overcoming the nutritional immunity by engineering iron-scavenging bacteria for cancer therapy

    Sin-Wei Huang, See-Khai Lim ... Kurt Yun Mou
    Bacterial therapy can be impeded by nutrition deprivation in the tumor microenvironment, and enhancing bacteria resistance to iron sequestration enhances its antitumoral activity for therapeutic purposes.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric coupling asymmetry mediates paradoxical activation of BRAF by type II inhibitors

    Damien M Rasmussen, Manny M Semonis ... Nicholas M Levinson
    A comprehensive allosteric model describes how inhibitors can activate rather than inhibit a target kinase by selectively driving formation of kinase dimers with one inhibited and one activated subunit.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Phantasus, a web-application for visual and interactive gene expression analysis

    Maksim Kleverov, Daria Zenkova ... Alexey A Sergushichev
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    CLOCK evolved in cnidaria to synchronize internal rhythms with diel environmental cues

    Raphael Aguillon, Mieka Rinsky ... Oren Levy
    Disruption of the Clock gene in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis revealed its essential role in circadian rhythm maintenance and uncovered a compensatory light-response pathway, advancing our comprehension of circadian regulation in non-bilaterian animals.