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. Neuroscience

    Modulation of human dorsal root ganglion neuron excitability by Nav1.7 inhibition

    Akie Fujita, Sooyeon Jo ... Bruce P Bean
    Inhibition of Nav1.7 sodium channels in human dorsal root ganglion neurons had larger effects to reduce threshold and upstroke velocity of action potentials compared to Nav1.8 inhibition but smaller effects to reduce repetitive firing of action potentials.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses protective Th17 responses during infection

    Alex Zilinskas, Amir Balakhmet ... Sarah A Stanley
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses its type VII secretion system and surface lipid phthiocerol dimycocerosate to suppress protective host Th17 cell responses.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    An IL-21R STAT hypomorph circumvents functional redundancy in germinal centre responses

    Christoph Jandl, Joanna Warren ... Cecile King
    An IL-21 receptor mutation that differentially regulates STAT1 and STAT3 activation influenced the differentiation of T follicular cells.
    1. Neuroscience

    Large language models poorly capture how word order shapes representations of sentence meaning in the human brain

    James Fodor, Carsten Murawski, Shinsuke Suzuki
    Representations from models that explicitly encode semantic roles (who did what to whom) align better with activity in language regions of the brain than representations from transformers do.
    1. Neuroscience

    Morphology and ultrastructure of pharyngeal sense organs of Drosophila larvae

    Vincent Richter, Tilman Triphan ... Andreas S Thum
    Comprehensive ultrastructural reconstruction of the Drosophila larval pharyngeal sensory system reveals the organization and diversity of its sensory structures and enables future investigations into sensory processing, feeding decisions, and behavior.
    1. Neuroscience

    Mapping the topographic organization of the human zona incerta using diffusion MRI

    Roy AM Haast, Jason Kai ... Jonathan C Lau
    Showing that the structural connectivity between the zona incerta and cortex is organized along a rostral–caudal axis.
    1. Neuroscience

    Motor unit mechanisms of speed control in mouse locomotion

    Kyle Thomas, Rhuna Gibbs ... Samuel J Sober
    Recording the spiking activity of muscle fibers at high resolution in awake, behaving mice, reveals that locomotor speed is driven by highly variable subsets of motor units.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Olfactory combinatorial coding supports risk–reward decision-making in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Md Zubayer Hossain Saad, William G Ryan ... Bruce A Bamber
    An odorant is encoded in the periphery as independent inputs of attractive and repulsive valence, which are then integrated and balanced to drive overall chemotactic behavior.
    1. Ecology

    Novel but stable endosymbionts have contrasting effects on aphid dispersal and plant feeding damage in the cereal pest Diuraphis noxia

    Xinyue Gu, Alex Gill ... Ary Hoffmann
    Naturally occurring bacterial endosymbionts can modify population growth, crop damage, and dispersal in the Russian wheat aphid, a major pest of cereal crops, highlighting their potential for sustainable pest management.
    1. Neuroscience

    Complementary stable and dynamic prelimbic ensembles encode learned threat value underlying generalization and discrimination

    Marc E Normandin, Pedro M Ogallar ... Isabel A Muzzio
    Stable and dynamic prelimbic neurons preserve threat-generalization gradients despite ensemble turnover, supporting enduring representations of stimulus significance rather than freezing.