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. Cell Biology

    Prior cocaine use disrupts identification of hidden states by single units and neural ensembles in orbitofrontal cortex

    Wenhui Zong, Lauren Mueller ... Geoffrey Schoenbaum
    Rats with a history of cocaine use exhibited prolonged encoding of idiosyncratic task features in orbitofrontal cortex and a reduced ability to compress such features to identify underlying hidden states.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Single-cell co-mapping reveals relationship between chromatin state and gene expression in early zebrafish development

    Vivek Bhardwaj, Alberto Griffa ... Alexander van Oudenaarden
    A robust and quantitative map links chromatin modification and gene expression of cells during zebrafish embryogenesis.
    1. Neuroscience

    How individual vigor shapes human–human physical interaction

    Dorian Verdel, Bastien Berret, Etienne Burdet
    Interactions between pairs of humans lead to the emergence of a dyadic vigor with similar characteristics as individual vigor, where both partners adapt, with the slower having a critical role.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dimorphic neural network architecture prioritizes sexual-related behaviors in male Caenorhabditis elegans

    Xuebin Wang, Hanzhang Liu ... He Liu
    Graph theory and computational modeling reveal that neural network architecture biases the male Caenorhabditis elegans brain toward prioritized sexual behaviors.
    1. Neuroscience

    Alpha-band phase modulates perceptual sensitivity by changing internal noise and sensory tuning

    April Pilipenko, Alexandra McGowan, Jason Samaha
    Alpha-band, 8–13 Hz, neural oscillations phasically modulate the sensitivity of visual detection by changing internal sensory noise.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural mechanisms of pump assembly and drug transport in the AcrAB–TolC efflux system

    Xiaofei Ge, Zhiwei Gu, Jiawei Wang
    High‑resolution cryo‑EM structures uncover YbjP as a novel lipoprotein that positions TolC and supports conformational changes in E. coli drug efflux pumps mediating antibiotic resistance.
    1. Cancer Biology

    PTEN restrains SHH medulloblastoma growth through cell autonomous and nonautonomous mechanisms

    Zhimin Lao, Salsabiel El Nagar ... Alexandra L Joyner
    Homozygous but not heterozygous loss of Pten in sporadic mouse models of SHH-medulloblastoma greatly accelerates tumor formation, not metastasis, through increased survival of differentiated cells and possibly decreased infiltrating macrophages.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Single-mRNA imaging and modeling reveal coupled translation initiation and elongation rates

    Irene Lamberti, Jeffrey A Chao ... Felix Naef
    Mammalian cells dynamically scale translation initiation to match distinct elongation rates, preventing ribosome crowding and preserving protein synthesis homeostasis across diverse transcripts.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Fragmentation and aggregation of cyanobacterial colonies

    Yuri Z Sinzato, Robert Uittenbogaard ... Maziyar Jalaal
    Flow experiments show how the formation of cyanobacterial colonies is driven by cell division, aggregation, and fragmentation under different hydrodynamic conditions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Modality-agnostic decoding of vision and language from fMRI

    Mitja Nikolaus, Milad Mozafari ... Rufin VanRullen
    Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).