Highlights

  • ITP signaling and homeostasis

    The ion transport peptide (ITP) signaling system relies on a guanylate cyclase receptor to maintain homeostasis in Drosophila.

    Jayati Gera, Marishia Agard ... Meet Zandawala
    Research Article
  • Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    The articles in this focus issue discuss progress towards a better understanding of memory in the innate immune system, and efforts to develop new vaccines and therapeutics based on “trained immunity”.

    Collection
  • Phosphate buffering

    Lysosome-related vacuoles control the metabolism of inorganic polyphosphates to stabilize the concentration of phosphate in the cytosol.

    Samuel Bru, Lydie Michaillat Mayer ... Andreas Mayer
    Research Article
  • How we understand each other

    eLife author Joe Barnby answers questions about a study that explored how humans navigate social interactions.

    Inside eLife
  • No change for astroctyes

    Genetically removing the RNA-binding protein PTBP1 from astrocytes does not convert them into neurons, contrary to previous claims.

    Min Zhang, Naoto Kubota ... Sika Zheng
    Research Article
  • Drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Mutations in a water channel called TbAQP2 make the parasite that causes sleeping sickness resistant to drugs. Image: Jessica Eggers (CC BY 4.0).

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone N Weyand
    Reviewed Preprint Updated

Latest research

    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Evolutionary remodeling of non-canonical ORF translation in mammals

    Yue Chang, Tianyu Lei ... Hong Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience

    Modality-Agnostic Decoding of Vision and Language from fMRI

    Mitja Nikolaus, Milad Mozafari ... Rufin VanRullen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Fear conditioning biases olfactory sensory neuron expression across generations

    Clara W Liff, Yasmine R Ayman ... Bianca J Marlin
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Cell Biology

    Dominant spinal muscular atrophy linked mutations in the cargo binding domain of BICD2 result in altered interactomes and dynein hyperactivity

    Hannah Neiswender, Jessica E Pride ... Graydon B Gonsalvez
    Disease-associated mutations in BICD2 result in loss- and gain-of-function interactions and dynein hyperactivity.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The primate Major Histocompatibility Complex as a case study of gene family evolution

    Alyssa Lyn Fortier, Jonathan K Pritchard
    The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dorsal hippocampus mediates light–tone associations in male mice

    Julia S Pinho, Carla Ramon-Duaso ... Arnau Busquets-Garcia
    A light–tone sensory preconditioning task in male mice is developed revealing sex differences and demonstrating that dorsal, but not ventral, hippocampal CaMKII-positive neurons encode innocuous stimulus associations.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The electrogenicity of the Na+/K+-ATPase poses challenges for computation in highly active spiking cells

    Liz Weerdmeester, Jan-Hendrik Schleimer, Susanne Schreiber
    The electrogenic Na+/K+-ATPase generates a slow activity-dependent feedback signal that influences the computation of excitable cells and requires additional compensatory mechanisms during periods of high sustained activity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic regulation of mRNA acetylation at synapses by spatial memory in mouse hippocampus

    Hai-Qian Zhou, Zhen Zhu ... Dong-Min Yin
    Not revised
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Peptidoglycan recycling is critical for cell division, cell wall integrity and β-lactam resistance in Caulobacter crescentus

    Pia Richter, Anna Merz ... Martin Thanbichler
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Developmental Biology

    Eed controls craniofacial osteoblast differentiation and mesenchymal proliferation from the neural crest

    Tim Casey-Clyde, S John Liu ... David R Raleigh
    Eed, a core subunit of Polycomb repressive complex 2, is required for craniofacial osteoblast differentiation and mesenchymal proliferation after induction of the neural crest.