Highlights

  • ITP signaling and homeostasis

    The ion transport peptide (ITP) signaling system relies on a guanylate cyclase receptor to maintain homeostasis in Drosophila.

    Jayati Gera, Marishia Agard ... Meet Zandawala
    Research Article
  • Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    The articles in this focus issue discuss progress towards a better understanding of memory in the innate immune system, and efforts to develop new vaccines and therapeutics based on “trained immunity”.

    Collection
  • Phosphate buffering

    Lysosome-related vacuoles control the metabolism of inorganic polyphosphates to stabilize the concentration of phosphate in the cytosol.

    Samuel Bru, Lydie Michaillat Mayer ... Andreas Mayer
    Research Article
  • How we understand each other

    eLife author Joe Barnby answers questions about a study that explored how humans navigate social interactions.

    Inside eLife
  • No change for astroctyes

    Genetically removing the RNA-binding protein PTBP1 from astrocytes does not convert them into neurons, contrary to previous claims.

    Min Zhang, Naoto Kubota ... Sika Zheng
    Research Article
  • Drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Mutations in a water channel called TbAQP2 make the parasite that causes sleeping sickness resistant to drugs. Image: Jessica Eggers (CC BY 4.0).

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone N Weyand
    Reviewed Preprint Updated

Latest research

    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable memory modulation mechanisms facilitate fear amnesia at different timescales

    Yinmei Ni, Ye Wang ... Jian Li
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Stranded short nascent strand sequencing reveals the topology of DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei

    Slavica Stanojcic, Bridlin Barckmann ... Yvon Sterkers
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate

    Michael W Caldwell, Chase D Brownstein ... Tiago R Simões
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    • Important
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    1. Cell Biology

    Hepatic Transthyretin knockdown alleviates NAFLD by enhancing SERCA2 function and inhibiting endoplasmic reticulum stress

    Yingzi He, Tian Yang ... Fenping Zheng
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    1. Neuroscience

    Population analyses reveal heterogenous encoding in the medial prefrontal cortex during naturalistic foraging

    Ji Hoon Jeong, June-Seek Choi
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval

    Tamara Gedankien, Jennifer Kriegel ... Joshua Jacobs
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Detecting Regime Shifts: Neurocomputational Substrates for Over- and Underreactions to Change

    Mu-Chen Wang, George Wu, Shih-Wei Wu
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience

    Cerebellar climbing fibers impact experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse primary somatosensory cortex

    Abby Silbaugh, Kevin P Koster, Christian Hansel
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    Microsaccades track shifting but not necessarily maintaining covert visual-spatial attention

    Anna M van Harmelen, Freek van Ede
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