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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 eLife

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    Loose coupling between Ca2+ channels and release sensors as a synaptic correlate of higher order brain function

    Max Schwarze, Grit Bornschein ... Hartmut Schmidt
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Two Glu/Asp Residues Cooperatively Mediate an Early Step of ATP Hydrolysis in GHKL ATPases MutL and GyrB

    Kenji Fukui, Ayaka Shibuya ... Takato Yano
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    1. Ecology
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    Cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons

    Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee, Fritz A Francisco, Albert B Kao
    A navigational model exploring social learning strategies differing in cognitive complexity in homing pigeons shows that simple averaging sufficiently explains collective route improvements, without requiring cumulative cultural evolution.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Molecular architecture of the tumor microenvironment caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 somatic mutations in human lung adenocarcinoma

    Gaoming Liao, Xinbin Yang ... Gang Xu
    BRCA1/2 mutations rewire the lung adenocarcinoma microenvironment through distinct immune programs, with BRCA1-linked type I interferon signaling and CD8+ T activation contrasting BRCA2-linked MHC-II antigen presentation and CD4+ T differentiation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multi-talker speech comprehension at different temporal scales in listeners with normal and impaired hearing

    Jixing Li, Qixuan Wang ... Zhiwu Huang
    Hearing impairment selectively disrupts neural tracking of speech at both short and long temporal scales during multi-speaker listening, while preserving intermediate linguistic processing.
    1. Medicine

    Hyperactivated glycolysis drives spatially patterned Kupffer cell depletion in MASLD

    Jia He, Ran Li ... Zhao Shan
    Glycolytic activation directly drives Kupffer cell loss in early metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, highlighting a targetable metabolic vulnerability.
    1. Neuroscience

    Inhibitory columnar feedback neurons are involved in motion processing in Drosophila

    Miriam Henning, Madhura D Ketkar ... Marion Silies
    Inhibitory GABAergic feedback neurons tune direction-selective motion signals in Drosophila, sharpening behavioral responses to rapidly changing visual stimuli and expanding canonical feedforward models of visual motion computation.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Endocardial TIE1 synergizes with TIE2 to regulate the atrial internal muscular network assembly

    Kai Ding, Beibei Xu ... Yulong He
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    LRRK2 regulates synaptic function through modulation of actin cytoskeletal dynamics

    Giulia Tombesi, Shiva Kompella ... Elisa Greggio
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research

    Francois Stockart, Alexis Robin ... Nathan Faivre
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
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