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 in an important way.

Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    TEAD1 is crucial for developmental myelination, Remak bundles, and functional regeneration of peripheral nerves

    Matthew Grove, Hyukmin Kim ... Young-Jin Son
    TEAD1 is a major partner transcription factor of YAP/TAZ crucial for developmental myelination and remyelination of peripheral nerves.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Hippo kinase cascade regulates a contractile cell behavior and cell density in a close unicellular relative of animals

    Jonathan E Phillips, Duojia Pan
    Genetic analysis of Hippo pathway kinases in a close unicellular relative of animals suggests an ancestral role of this ancient pathway in regulating cytoskeletal dynamics and density of multicellular aggregates.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multiple objects evoke fluctuating responses in several regions of the visual pathway

    Meredith N Schmehl, Valeria C Caruso ... Jennifer M Groh
    Neural fluctuations in multiple areas along the visual cortical hierarchy could allow the brain to represent distinct co-occurring visual stimuli.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    The genomic landscape of transposable elements in yeast hybrids is shaped by structural variation and genotype-specific modulation of transposition rate

    Mathieu Hénault, Souhir Marsit ... Christian R Landry
    The gain of transposable elements in yeast hybrids does not scale with genetic divergence levels and is most impacted by structural variations and multiple aspects of individual hybrid genetic backgrounds.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    DNA methylation-environment interactions in the human genome

    Rachel A Johnston, Katherine A Aracena ... Jenny Tung
    A massively parallel reporter assay, mSTARR-seq, reveals widespread DNA methylation-environment interactions across the genome, prioritizing CpG sites identified in epigenome-wide association studies that may be most relevant to biological embedding.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Region of Attainable Redaction, an extension of Ellipse of Insignificance analysis for gauging impacts of data redaction in dichotomous outcome trials

    David Robert Grimes
    Region of Attainable Redaction analysis allows scientists to estimate the potential impacts of redaction in biomedical science, helping to uncover potentially spurious or non-robust results.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hippocampome.org 2.0 is a knowledge base enabling data-driven spiking neural network simulations of rodent hippocampal circuits

    Diek W Wheeler, Jeffrey D Kopsick ... Giorgio A Ascoli
    Hippocampome.org v1.0, a foundational classification system of hippocampal neuron types, has evolved into 2.0, which recenters the focus on new functionality to build real-scale, biologically detailed, data-driven computational simulations.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Core PCP mutations affect short-time mechanical properties but not tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila pupal wing

    Romina Piscitello-Gómez, Franz S Gruber ... Suzanne Eaton
    Quantitative analysis of cell dynamics over a range of timescales reveals that core PCP is not required to organize large-scale tissue flows but does affect short timescale mechanics.
    1. Neuroscience

    New genetic tools for mushroom body output neurons in Drosophila

    Gerald M Rubin, Yoshinori Aso
    Improved cell-type-specific genetic drivers for the study of learning and memory and other complex behaviors in Drosophila are provided and validated.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A novel computational pipeline for var gene expression augments the discovery of changes in the Plasmodium falciparum transcriptome during transition from in vivo to short-term in vitro culture

    Clare Andradi-Brown, Jan Stephan Wichers-Misterek ... Anna Bachmann
    An enhanced bioinformatic pipeline to quantify Plasmodium falciparum core gene and polymorphic var gene expression revealed changes occurring during early culture adaptation of parasites from naturally infected individuals.