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We liked the idea of having an open 'conversation' with the reviewers during the process, and having the chance to polish the manuscript by following the editors and reviewers’ recommendations without the threat of rejection.

Patrick Allard, UCLA and eLife author

Researchers explain why they published in eLife

Latest research

    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Controlling the synchronization and symmetry breaking of coupled bacterial pili on active biofilm carpets

    Baha Altın, Enes Talha Günay ... Askin Kocabas
    Active biofilm carpets generate Mexican-wave-like synchronized dynamics and topological defects through nonreciprocal pili interactions.
    1. Neuroscience

    SynaptoTagMe, a toolkit for in vivo mapping and modulating neurotransmission at single-cell resolution

    Andrea Cuentas-Condori, Patricia Chanabá-López ... Daniel A Colón-Ramos
    Endogenous tagging and conditional silencing of vesicular transporters reveal widespread, conserved co-transmission, and enable causal dissection of transmitter-specific synaptic function, linking molecular identity to circuit dynamics and behavior in vivo.
    1. Developmental Biology

    A cell atlas of the developing human outflow tract of the heart and its adult aortic valve derivatives

    Rotem Leshem, Syed Murtuza-Baker ... Nicoletta Bobola
    Transcriptomic profiling of the developing human outflow tract and adult aortic valves reveals that adult valve cells retain distinct embryonic molecular signatures.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural insights into the recruitment of viral type 2 IRES to ribosomal preinitiation complex for protein synthesis

    Deepakash Das, Tanweer Hussain
    The viral type 2 internal ribosome entry site uses a unique mechanism to hijack the host ribosomal machinery by interacting with initiator tRNA and 40S head.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis partitions the Krebs cycle under iron starvation

    Agnese Serafini, Acely Garza-Garcia ... Riccardo Manganelli
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis rewires central carbon metabolism to circumvent iron-dependent metabolic routes during iron starvation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Intrinsic properties link a network model to zebra finch song

    Nelson D Medina, Dan Margoliash
    Whole-cell recordings paired with a network model show that post-inhibitory rebound excitation in premotor neurons couples intrinsic excitability to the temporal structure of learned birdsong.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hippocampal neuronal and astrocytic responses to noradrenaline and natural arousal

    Sian N Duss, Maria Wilhelm ... Peter Rupprecht
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Acyl Carrier Protein is Essential for Apicoplast Biogenesis in Malaria Parasites Independent of Fatty Acid Synthesis

    Sage WR Geher, Seyi Falekun ... Paul A Sigala
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Feedback control of recurrent circuits imposes dynamical constraints on learning

    Harsha Gurnani, Weixuan Liu, Bingni W Brunton
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Medial prefrontal cortex encodes but is not required to generate goal-directed actions under threat

    Muhammad S Sajid, Ji Zhou, Manuel A Castro-Alamancos
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
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