Highlights
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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).
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Modelling archaeal membranes
Archaea use single-headed and double-headed lipids to construct cell membranes that are both flexible and capable of withstanding extreme environments.
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ITP signaling and homeostasis
The ion transport peptide (ITP) signaling system relies on a guanylate cyclase receptor to maintain homeostasis in Drosophila.
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How we understand each other
eLife author Joe Barnby answers questions about a study that explored how humans navigate social interactions.
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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”.
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No change for astroctyes
Genetically removing the RNA-binding protein PTBP1 from astrocytes does not convert them into neurons, contrary to previous claims.
We liked the idea of having an open 'conversation' with the reviewers during the process, and having the chance to polish the manuscript by following the editors and reviewers’ recommendations without the threat of rejection.
Patrick Allard, UCLA and eLife author
Researchers explain why they published in eLifeMagazine
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