Highlights

  • The origin of hagfish slime

    Microscopy studies and transcriptome analyses have shown that the slime glands of hagfish evolved from cells and genes expressed in the skin.

    Yu Zeng, David C Plachetzki ... Douglas Fudge
    Research Article
  • A new way to publish

    All papers reviewed by eLife are published as Reviewed Preprints, which combine the advantages of preprints with the scrutiny offered by peer review

    Inside eLife
  • A code for RNA localization

    Experiments on RNA point to the existence of an RNA localization ‘code’ that operates in multiple cell types and is conserved across species.

    Raeann Goering, Ankita Arora ... J Matthew Taliaferro
    Research Article

Latest research

    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Cell circuits between leukemic cells and mesenchymal stem cells block lymphopoiesis by activating lymphotoxin beta receptor signaling

    Xing Feng, Ruifeng Sun ... Joao Pedro Pereira
    Acute lymphoblastic and myeloblastic leukemias activate lymphotoxin beta receptor in mesenchymal stem cells in the bone marrow to turn off interleukin-7 production and lymphopoiesis and gain competitive advantage.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Associations of ABO and Rhesus D blood groups with phenome-wide disease incidence: A 41-year retrospective cohort study of 482,914 patients

    Peter Bruun-Rasmussen, Morten Hanefeld Dziegiel ... Søren Brunak
    The ABO and RhD blood groups are associated with disease-wide susceptibility differences.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Transcriptional drifts associated with environmental changes in endothelial cells

    Yalda Afshar, Feyiang Ma ... Luisa Iruela-Arispe
    1. Neuroscience

    Schema-based predictive eye movements support sequential memory encoding

    Jiawen Huang, Isabel Velarde ... Christopher Baldassano
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Dating the origin and spread of specialization on human hosts in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

    Noah H Rose, Athanase Badolo ... Carolyn S McBride
    The dengue and yellow fever mosquito first specialized on humans about 5000 years ago, but appears to use the same genes to thrive in urban environments today.