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

    Progressive mural cell deficiencies across the lifespan in a foxf2 model of cerebral small vessel disease

    Merry Faye E Graff, Emma EM Heeg ... Sarah J Childs
    Loss of foxf2 in zebrafish leads to a reduced pericyte progenitor pool in embryos and progresses to severe cerebrovascular defects over the lifespan, suggesting that cerebral small vessel disease in adults has roots in development.
    1. Cell Biology

    Cardiac neurons expressing a glucagon-like receptor mediate cardiac arrhythmia induced by high-fat diet in Drosophila

    Yunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan ... Zhe Han
    A conserved glucagon signaling pathway links high-fat diet-induced metabolic imbalance to cardiac arrhythmia through hormone-producing cells and heart-innervating neurons that regulate rhythmicity.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Concatenated modular BK channel constructs reveal divergent stoichiometry in gating control by LRRC26 (γ1), pore, and selectivity filter

    Guanxing Chen, Qin Li ... Jiusheng Yan
    Regulatory stoichiometry in large-conductance potassium (BK) channels diverges by mechanism, separating single-subunit activation, graded pore contributions, and collective selectivity-filter control.
    1. Neuroscience

    High-fidelity neural speech reconstruction through an efficient acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework

    Jiawei Li, Chunxu Guo ... Yuanning Li
    Concurrent decoding of acoustic detail and linguistic structure enables natural, intelligible speech synthesis from limited human cortical recordings, resolving a fundamental constraint in neural speech reconstruction.
    1. Neuroscience

    Adjoint propagation of error signal through modular recurrent neural networks for biologically plausible learning

    Zhuo Liu, Hao Shu ... Tao Chen
    The adjoint propagation framework enables the concurrent flow of signals and errors, providing a biologically and physically plausible learning mechanism.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Deep learning linking mechanistic models to single-cell transcriptomics data reveals transcriptional bursting in response to DNA damage

    Zhiwei Huang, Songhao Luo ... Jiajun Zhang
    DNA damage reshapes genome-wide transcriptional bursting, with distinct burst size and frequency programs associated with differentiation, apoptosis, and survival decisions.
    1. Cell Biology

    SLC4A1 mutations that cause distal renal tubular acidosis alter cytoplasmic pH and cellular autophagy

    Grace Essuman, Midhat Rizvi ... Emmanuelle Cordat
    Distal renal tubular acidosis induced by some SLC4A1 variants is characterized by cytosolic pH alkalization, reduced ATP synthesis and defective autophagy degradative flux.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Acetylation of H3K115 is associated with fragile nucleosomes at CpG island promoters and active regulatory sites

    Yatendra Kumar, Dipta Sengupta ... Wendy A Bickmore
    Acetylation of histone H3 at the nucleosome surface is associated with destabilised nucleosomes and is a useful new functional genomics mark for identifying regulatory regions of the mammalian genome.
    1. Medicine

    Sperm motility in mice with oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia restored by in vivo injection and electroporation of naked mRNA

    Charline Vilpreux, Paul Fourquin ... Jessica Escoffier
    Naked mRNA administration in the testes rescues sperm function, demonstrating a potential therapeutic approach for genetic male infertility.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning

    Hannah H McDermott, Federico de Martino ... Ryszard Auksztulewicz
    Neural responses during statistical learning reveal dissociable dynamic effects of expectation, supporting the opposing process theory within trials while demonstrating contrasting effects across trials.