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. Computational and Systems Biology

    Functional muscle networks as biomarkers of post-stroke motor impairment and therapeutic responsiveness

    David O'Reilly, Giorgia Pregnolato ... Giacomo Severini
    The proposed muscle network analysis framework identifies a redundancy-to-synergy shift as a marker of stroke recovery, yielding new biomarkers that could objectively quantify functional impairment and rehabilitation efficacy.
    1. Neuroscience

    PKMζ-PKCι/λ double-knockout demonstrates atypical PKC is crucial for the persistence of hippocampal LTP and spatial memory

    Panayiotis Tsokas, Changchi Hsieh ... Todd Charlton Sacktor
    Double-knockout of PKMζ and the other atypical PKC, PKCι/λ, reveals that, without PKMζ for maintenance, PKCι/λ becomes persistently active to sustain hippocampal late-LTP and long-term memory.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Heterozygote advantage cannot explain MHC diversity, but MHC diversity can explain heterozygote advantage

    Joshua L Cherry
    The unusually high genetic diversity of MHC genes cannot be explained by heterozygote advantage alone because heterozygote advantage is not expected without some other driver of diversity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Disentangling cephalopod chromatophores motor units with computer vision

    Mathieu DM Renard, Johann Ukrow ... Gilles Laurent
    The spatial organization of chromatophore-muscle innervation by motoneurons enables the generation of chromatophore-shaped noise, virtual or composite chromatophores, and shape elements such as lines or small blobs.
    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct involvements of the subthalamic nucleus subpopulations in reward-biased decision-making in monkeys

    Kathryn Branam, Joshua I Gold, Long Ding
    The subthalamic nucleus contains subpopulations with different contributions to deliberative decision-making based on noisy evidence and reward-driven preferences.
    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.