Insight articles are related to original research papers in eLife and explain why the results reported in the paper are significant in a given field of research. Insight articles are commissioned by eLife staff.
The steroid hormone dafachronic acid may carry the effects of reduced mTOR activity between tissues to coordinate metabolism and longevity across the body.
Bovine mammary tissue can support infection and replication of diverse influenza A viruses and may provide an environment in which different viral strains can co-infect cells.
Behavioural diversity across fruit flies changes with individual learning, even when genetic, past and momentary environmental factors are held constant.
Monkeys generalize many visual categorization rules, such as animate versus inanimate, but fail on culturally defined ones, placing their behavior closer to networks trained on images alone than to humans.
The transcription factor CHOP helps cells switch from an emergency stress response to a chronic one, where cells survive but lose some of the functions that define their identity.
Tailoring malaria control interventions to regional transmission dynamics and behavioural characteristics can optimise them in resource-limited settings.
