Highlights

  • Microglia on the move

    Microglia adopt fundamentally different strategies for surveilling the health of neurons during chronic neurodegeneration.

    Sunitha Subhramanian, Olga Bocharova ... Ilia V Baskakov
    Research Article
  • Shaping male behaviours in fish

    Estrogens produced in the brain increase neural sensitivity to testicular androgens, and thus elicit male-typical behaviors, in the Japanese rice fish.

    Yuji Nishiike, Shizuku Maki ... Kataaki Okubo
    Research Article
  • X-rays impact gene expression

    Exposing the wing discs of Drosophila to X-rays leads to heterogenous changes in gene expression that are related to cell-cycle status and cell location.

    Joyner Cruz, Willam Y Sun ... Iswar K Hariharan
    Reviewed Preprint Updated
  • Research culture

    The Researcher Development Concordat has led to improvements in research culture in the UK, but there is still more to do.

    Robert AR Drake, Laura A Gray ... Joan Chang
    Feature Article
  • Where theory meets biology

    eLife author Veronika Koren, a computational neuroscientist, answers questions about her work on efficient coding.

    Inside eLife
  • What is a Reviewed Preprint?

    Reviewed Preprints provide benefits to authors and to the wider scientific community.

    Inside eLife

Latest research

    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Rapid evolution of fine-scale recombination during domestication: a perspective from population genomics

    Zheng-Xi Liu, Ming Li ... Ming-Shan Wang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    • Inadequate
    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Bruce suppresses autophagy-regulated caspase activity and wing tissue growth in Drosophila

    Natsuki Shinoda, Yutaro Hama ... Masayuki Miura
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Efficient transduction of pancreas tissue slices with genetically encoded calcium integrators

    Charles S Lazimi, Austin E Stis ... Edward A Phelps
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology

    Specialisation of meiotic kinetochores revealed through a synthetic SAC strategy

    Lori B Koch, Christos Spanos, Adele L Marston
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology

    Permissive and instructive Hox codes govern limb positioning

    Yajun Wang, Maik Hintze ... Ruijin Huang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Active regulation of the epidermal growth factor receptor by the membrane bilayer

    Shwetha Srinivasan, Xingcheng Lin ... Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Effects of residue substitutions on the cellular abundance of proteins

    Thea K Schulze, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    A Forebrain Hub for Cautious Actions via the Midbrain

    Ji Zhou, Muhammad S Sajid ... Manuel A Castro-Alamancos
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Modeling and simulation of neocortical micro- and mesocircuitry (Part II, Physiology and experimentation)

    James B Isbister, Andras Ecker ... Michael W Reimann
    A general and open multiscale cortical model is presented which can be used by the community to study neural coding, spike sorting, plasticity, optogenetic and extracellular stimulation, local field potential, and electroencephalography.