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

    Principles of gamma synchrony predict figure–ground perception in texture stimuli

    Maryam Karimian, Mark Jonathan Roberts ... Mario Senden
    Principles of weakly coupled oscillators capture human figure-ground segregation and its training-induced enhancement, indicating gamma synchrony remains a plausible grouping mechanism.
    1. Cell Biology

    GTPase-activating protein DLC1 spatio-temporally regulates Rho signaling

    Lucien Hinderling, Max Heydasch ... Olivier Pertz
    Mechanosensitive recruitment of DLC1 to focal adhesions creates a positive feedback loop that locally amplifies Rho activation in response to tension.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Contrasting roles for IKK-regulated inflammatory signalling pathways for development and maintenance of type 1 and adaptive γδ T cells

    Farjana Islam, Cayman Williams ... Benedict Seddon
    Inhibitor of κB kinase signalling differentially controls development and survival of γδ T cell subsets through nuclear factor-κB activation and repression of receptor-interacting protein kinase 1-driven necroptosis, revealing distinct inflammatory signalling requirements from αβ T cells.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Loss of ZNRF3/RNF43 unleashes EGFR in cancer

    Fei Yue, Amy T Ku ... Yi Li
    Genetic and biochemical analyses show that loss of the E3 ubiquitin ligases ZNRF3 and RNF43 enhances EGFR signaling by impairing EGFR ubiquitination and degradation, revealing a new cancer-promoting mechanism.
    1. Neuroscience

    Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding in naturalistic listening designs

    Inés Schönmann, Jakub Szewczyk ... Micha Heilbron
    The ability to predict brain activity from words before they occur can be explained by information shared between neighbouring words, without requiring next-word prediction by the brain.
    1. Neuroscience

    Translational control in the spinal cord regulates gene expression and pain hypersensitivity in the chronic phase of neuropathic pain

    Kevin C Lister, Calvin Wong ... Arkady Khoutorsky
    Spinal translational control mechanisms regulate gene expression and nociceptive circuit sensitization during the chronic phase of neuropathic pain.
    1. Neuroscience

    Challenges in replay detection by TDLM in post-encoding resting state

    Simon Kern, Juliane Nagel ... Gordon B Feld
    Detecting replay during longer time periods (e.g. resting state or sleep) with temporally delayed linear modeling (TDLM) requires biologically implausible event densities, and purely synthetic simulations substantially overestimate the method's sensitivity.
    1. Cell Biology

    Specialisation of meiotic kinetochores revealed through a synthetic spindle assembly checkpoint strategy

    Lori B Koch, Tiasha Ghosh ... Adèle L Marston
    A system to enrich yeast in metaphase of mitosis, meiosis I, or meiosis II reveals reduced spindle assembly checkpoint robustness in meiosis I and distinct kinetochore composition and phosphorylation states.
    1. Neuroscience

    The dominance of large-scale phase dynamics in human cortex, from delta to gamma

    David M Alexander, Laura Dugué
    The phase of cortical activity, measured in the gray matter, is organized at multiple spatial scales, with the largest scales explaining most variance in phase at a given temporal frequency.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Fitness drivers of division of labor in vertebrates

    Irene García-Ruiz, Dustin R Rubenstein
    Direct survival benefits in larger groups rather than kin-selected indirect fitness primarily drive the evolution of division of labor in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, particularly under harsh environmental conditions.