Research Advances

A Research Advance is a short article that allows either the authors of an eLife paper or other researchers to publish new results that build on the original research paper in an important way.

Latest articles

    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    CARD8 inflammasome activation during HIV-1 cell-to-cell transmission

    Jessie Kulsuptrakul, Michael Emerman, Patrick S Mitchell
    During cell-to-cell spread, HIV-1 protease activity triggers CARD8 inflammasome activation and IL-1β release from macrophages, which may contribute to inflammation and chronic immune activation.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Confirmation of HLA-II associations with TB susceptibility in admixed African samples

    Dayna Adrienne Croock, Yolandi Swart ... Caitlin Uren
    A local-ancestry-aware association model identified a suggestive association peak within the HLA class II region linked to TB in a complex, highly admixed Southern African population.
    1. Cell Biology

    Force transmission through the inner kinetochore is enhanced by centromeric DNA sequences

    Elise Miedlar, Grace E Hamilton ... Trisha N Davis
    Biochemical reconstitution and laser trapping show that centromeric DNA sequences are important for the transmission of microtubule-based forces to chromosomes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cortical dynamics in hand/forelimb S1 and M1 evoked by brief photostimulation of the mouse’s hand

    Daniela Piña Novo, Mang Gao ... Gordon MG Shepherd
    'Phototactile' hand stimulation rapidly activates first the somatosensory then the motor cortex, broadly consistent with constraints suggested by the previously described circuit architecture of this transcortical loop.
    1. Neuroscience

    Aberration correction in long GRIN lens-based microendoscopes for extended field-of-view two-photon imaging in deep brain regions

    Andrea Sattin, Chiara Nardin ... Tommaso Fellin
    A built-in solution for correcting optical aberrations in long (> 6 mm) gradient index (GRIN) lenses enables unbiased two-photon functional recordings of large neuronal populations in the deep mouse brain.
    1. Cell Biology

    TRPγ regulates lipid metabolism through Dh44 neuroendocrine cells

    Dharmendra Kumar Nath, Subash Dhakal, Youngseok Lee
    TRPγ is essential for maintaining lipid homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster, linking neuronal regulation to fat metabolism and suggesting potential therapeutic avenues for metabolic disorders.
    1. Medicine

    Sex-specific attenuation of photoreceptor degeneration by reserpine in a rhodopsin P23H rat model of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa

    Hyun Beom Song, Laura Campello ... Anand Swaroop
    Reserpine, previously identified through high-throughput screening in CEP290 retinal degeneration models, enhances photoreceptor survival in P23H rhodopsin retinal degeneration models, particularly in female rats, indicating its gene-agnostic and sex-specific effectiveness.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Numb provides a fail-safe mechanism for intestinal stem cell self-renewal in adult Drosophila midgut

    Mengjie Li, Aiguo Tian, Jin Jiang
    The asymmetrically segregated Notch pathway inhibitor Numb is essential for intestinal stem cell self-renewal in adult Drosophila midguts when the stem cell niche signaling is compromised.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Load-based divergence in the dynamic allostery of two TCRs recognizing the same pMHC

    Ana Cristina Chang-Gonzalez, Aoi Akitsu ... Wonmuk Hwang
    Recognition of antigenic ligand by T-cell receptors is a nuanced process where mechanical force can be leveraged to diversify functional outcomes of different T-cells for the same ligand.
    1. Neuroscience

    Ethograms predict visual fear conditioning status in rats

    David C Williams, Amanda Chu ... Michael A McDannald
    A more complete, bidirectional relationship between fear conditioning and behavior is established when many behaviors are examined, as opposed to single behavior such as freezing.