Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Cancer Biology

    Human multiethnic radiogenomics reveals low-abundancy microRNA signature in plasma-derived extracellular vesicles for early diagnosis and molecular subtyping of pancreatic cancer

    Jianying Xu, Wenjie Shi ... Ulf Dietrich Kahlert
    A novel, non-invasive strategy combining radiomics and blood extracellular vesicle-derived microRNA profiling to sharpen pancreatic cancer diagnosis is introduced.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Molecular and mechanical signatures contributing to mouse epidermal differentiation and barrier formation

    Alexandra Prado-Mantilla, Wenxiu Ning, Terry Lechler
    The roles of intermediate cells and contractility are characterized in the embryonic development of the epidermis.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus P118 enhances host tolerance to Salmonella infection by promoting microbe-derived indole metabolites

    Baikui Wang, Xianqi Peng ... Min Yue
    Probiotic P118 against Salmonella infections by directly antibacterial actions, inhibiting Salmonella colonization and invasion, attenuating macrophage pro-inflammatory responses, and modulating gut microbiota mediated by microbe-derived indole metabolites.
    1. Neuroscience

    Bridging verbal coordination and neural dynamics

    Isaïh Schwab-Mohamed, Manuel R Mercier ... Daniele Schön
    Fine-grained neural dynamics underlying speech coordination are revealed using a real-time interactive synchronous speech task that dissociates functional roles within the dorsal language pathway.
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Acute aerobic exercise intensity does not modulate pain potentially due to differences in fitness levels and sex effects: results from a pharmacological fMRI study

    Janne Ina Nold, Tahmine Fadai, Christian Büchel
    Exercise intensity alone does not differentially reduce pain, but individual factors like fitness level and sex, along with opioid mechanisms, may influence exercise-induced pain relief.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Simulation-based survey of TMEM16 family reveals that robust lipid scrambling requires an open groove

    Christina Alexandra Stephens, Niek van Hilten ... Michael Grabe
    The majority of TMEM16 lipid scrambling occurs in the open groove associated with Ca2+ activation, but limited scrambling also occurs in the dimer interface independent of Ca2+.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Identification and characterization of early human photoreceptor states and cell-state-specific retinoblastoma-related features

    Dominic WH Shayler, Kevin Stachelek ... David Cobrinik
    Full-length single-cell RNA-sequencing provide insights into the earliest gene expression programs, the distinct mRNA transcript isoforms, and the retinoblastoma-related cell states associated with human cone and rod photoreceptor development.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Cytoneme-mediated intercellular signaling in keratinocytes is essential for epidermal remodeling in zebrafish

    Yi Wang, Thomas Nguyen ... Dae Seok Eom
    Keratinocyte cytonemes mediate essential Notch signaling for proper skin maintenance, with their disruption leading to abnormal differentiation and hyperproliferation resembling human skin disease phenotypes.
    1. Neuroscience

    The novel role of Kallistatin in linking metabolic syndromes and cognitive memory deterioration by inducing amyloid-β plaques accumulation and tau protein hyperphosphorylation

    Weiwei Qi, Yanlan Long ... Guoquan Gao
    Kallistatin acts as a key regulator in mediating Aβ accumulation and tau hyperphosphorylation in AD.
    1. Neuroscience

    Odors drive feeding through gustatory receptor neurons in Drosophila

    Hongping Wei, Thomas Ka Chung Lam, Hokto Kazama
    Odors directly activate taste neurons in Drosophila, revealing a peripheral mechanism of odor-taste integration that enhances feeding behavior.