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. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Single-cell transcriptomics of X-ray irradiated Drosophila wing discs reveals heterogeneity related to cell-cycle status and cell location

    Joyner Cruz, William Y Sun ... Iswar K Hariharan
    Even in a simple epithelial tissue that is exposed uniformly to X-ray irradiation, cells show marked differences in their transcriptional response based on their location and cell-cycle status.
    1. Neuroscience

    Automatic learning mechanisms for flexible human locomotion

    Cris Rossi, Kristan Leech ... Amy J Bastian
    A flexible but automatic stimulus-response mapping mechanism complements forward model recalibration in walking adaptation, immediately accounting for perceived changes in the environment through perception altered by the same recalibration process.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Repression of PRMT activities sensitize human homologous recombination-proficient ovarian and breast cancer cells to PARP inhibitor treatment

    Youyou Zhang, Mu Xu ... Xiaowen Hu
    Inhibiting PRMT1 and PRMT5 renders HR-proficient ovarian and breast cancers highly vulnerable to PARP inhibition by suppressing BRCAness and amplifying DNA-damage-driven innate immune signaling.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    The chromatin remodeller CHD4 regulates transcription factor binding to both prevent activation of silent enhancers and maintain active regulatory elements

    Andria Koulle, Oluwaseun Ogundele ... Brian Hendrich
    CHD4 directly limits transcription factor binding to chromatin, which prevents activation of silent or cryptic enhancers but facilitates activity of active enhancers.
    1. Developmental Biology

    The Drosophila EGF domain protein uninflatable sets the switch between wrapping glia growth and axon wrapping instructed by Notch

    Marie Baldenius, Steffen Kautzmann ... Christian Klämbt
    In Drosophila larva, the Uninflatable protein helps to switch from FGF-receptor triggered glial growth to Notch triggered wrapping of peripheral axons.
    1. Neuroscience

    Information, certainty, and learning

    Justin A Harris, Charles Randy Gallistel
    The acquisition and expression of Pavlovian conditioned responding are shown to be lawfully related to objectively specifiable temporal properties of the events the animal is learning about.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Polymorphisms in intron 1 of HLA-DRA differentially associate with type 1 diabetes and celiac disease and implicate involvement of complement system genes C4A and C4B

    Ozkan Aydemir, Jeffrey A Bailey ... TEDDY Study Group
    HLA-DRA intronic haplotype associates with opposite effects on type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, refining genetic risk prediction and implicating complement genes C4A and C4B in divergent autoimmune pathways.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Single-nucleus transcriptional and chromatin accessibility analyses of maturing mouse Achilles tendon uncover the molecular landscape of tendon stem/progenitor cells

    Hiroki Tsutsumi, Tomoki Chiba ... Hiroshi Asahara
    Single-cell profiling reveals CD55+CD248+ tendon stem/progenitor cells.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    The representation of facial emotion expands from sensory to prefrontal cortex with development

    Xiaoxu Fan, Abhishek Tripathi, Kelly Bijanki
    Facial emotion representations expand from sensory cortex to prefrontal regions across development, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex matures with development to enable a full understanding of facial emotion.
    1. Neuroscience

    A forebrain hub for cautious actions via the midbrain

    Ji Zhou, Muhammad Sarmad Sajid ... Manuel A Castro-Alamancos
    Cautious action timing under threat depends on glutamatergic signaling from the subthalamic nucleus to the midbrain, revealing a circuit mechanism for adaptive goal-directed behavior.