Research Advances

A Research Advance is a short article that allows either the authors of an eLife paper or other researchers to publish new results that build on the original research paper.

Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Material damage to multielectrode arrays after electrolytic lesioning is insignificant

    Alice Tor, Stephen E Clarke ... Paul Nuyujukian
    An analysis of the largest publicly available collection of scanning electron microscopy images of explanted multielectrode arrays reveals that electrolytic lesioning causes no significant additional damage to array electrodes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Methylphenidate enhances or impairs the cognitive control of Pavlovian bias depending on working memory capacity

    Dirk EM Geurts, Hanneke EM den Ouden ... Roshan Cools
    Catecholaminergic modulation by methylphenidate affects appetitive and aversive Pavlovian biases of approach and avoidance in humans depending on individual differences in working memory capacity.
    1. Neuroscience

    A comprehensive mechanosensory connectome reveals a somatotopically organized neural circuit architecture controlling stimulus-aimed grooming of the Drosophila head

    Steven A Calle-Schuler, Alexis Santana-Cruz ... Andrew M Seeds
    A synaptic-resolution map reveals how spatially organized touch pathways in the fly brain shape aimed head grooming through parallel excitatory circuits and inhibitory control.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Towards a unified molecular mechanism for ligand-dependent activation of NR4A-RXR heterodimers

    Xiaoyu Yu, Yuanjun He ... Douglas J Kojetin
    Resolving the mechanism of RXR ligand-dependent NR4A-RXR nuclear receptor heterodimer activation requires a diverse ligand set that includes heterodimer-selective agonists.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Unbend, correction of local beam-induced sample motion in cryo-EM images using a 3D spline model

    Lingli Kong, Ximena Zottig ... Nikolaus Grigorieff
    Movie alignment software uses a 3D spline model to capture beam-induced motion in cryo-electron microscopy movie frames, correct local sample distortions, and improve two-dimensional template matching signal-to-noise ratios in the corrected images.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    JAX Animal Behavior System (JABS), a genetics-informed, end-to-end advanced behavioral phenotyping platform for the laboratory mouse

    Anshul Choudhary, Brian Q Geuther ... Vivek Kumar
    The JAX Animal Behavior System integrates standardized hardware, machine learning methods, and annotated datasets to enable reproducible behavioral phenotyping and genetic analysis across diverse mouse strains.
    1. Neuroscience

    Coordinated stimulation of axon regenerative and neurodegenerative transcriptional programs by ATF4 following optic nerve injury

    Preethi Somasundaram, Madeline M Farley ... Trent A Watkins
    A secondary stress signaling pathway in the response to optic axon injury is an unexpectedly strong contributor to both neurodegeneration and axon regenerative potential.
    1. Neuroscience

    The basolateral amygdala complex and perirhinal cortex represent focal and peripheral states of information processing in rats

    Francesca S Wong, Simon Killcross ... Nathan M Holmes
    The basolateral amygdala complex and perirhinal cortex function like the focal and peripheral states of attention described by classic associative learning theories.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Linking spinal circuit reorganization to recovery after thoracic spinal cord injury

    Natalia A Shevtsova, Andrew B Lockhart ... Simon M Danner
    A computational model mechanistically links spinal circuit reorganization to recovered locomotion after incomplete spinal cord injury.
    1. Neuroscience

    Mixture discrimination training induces durable and generalizable olfactory learning independent of odorant structure and concentration

    Xiaoyue Chang, Huibang Tan ... Wen Zhou
    Mixture discrimination training induces durable, transferable olfactory learning, highlighting mixture configural odor quality as a distinct attribute supported by different plasticity mechanisms than chirality or concentration and offering a promising leverage point for olfactory rehabilitation.