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

    Intrinsic properties link a network model to zebra finch song

    Nelson D Medina, Dan Margoliash
    Whole-cell recordings paired with a network model show that post-inhibitory rebound excitation in premotor neurons couples intrinsic excitability to the temporal structure of learned birdsong.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Controlling the synchronization and symmetry breaking of coupled bacterial pili on active biofilm carpets

    Baha Altın, Enes Talha Günay ... Askin Kocabas
    Active biofilm carpets generate Mexican-wave-like synchronized dynamics and topological defects through nonreciprocal pili interactions.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis partitions the Krebs cycle under iron starvation

    Agnese Serafini, Acely Garza-Garcia ... Riccardo Manganelli
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis rewires central carbon metabolism to circumvent iron-dependent metabolic routes during iron starvation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural insights into the recruitment of viral type 2 IRES to ribosomal preinitiation complex for protein synthesis

    Deepakash Das, Tanweer Hussain
    The viral type 2 internal ribosome entry site uses a unique mechanism to hijack the host ribosomal machinery by interacting with initiator tRNA and 40S head.
    1. Neuroscience

    Verbal Episodic Processing in Newborns

    Emma Visibelli, Ana Fló ... Silvia Benavides-Varela
    Speaker identity is a distinguishing feature at birth and highlights the episodic nature of humans’ first-stored verbal memories.
    1. Neuroscience

    Arousal modulates functional connectivity through structured and hemispherically asymmetric community architecture during wakefulness

    Xiangyu Kong, Siyu Li, Gaolang Gong
    Rather than exerting a uniform influence, arousal modulates the connectome through a structured, low-dimensional community architecture characterized by discrete topological patterns and intrinsic hemispheric asymmetries.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Patient-specific midbrain organoids with CRISPR correction recapitulate neuronopathic Gaucher disease phenotypes and enable evaluation of novel therapies

    Yi Lin, Benjamin Liou ... Ying Sun
    Human midbrain organoids provide a foundation for the development of patient-specific preclinical models to support personalized therapeutic approaches and enable evaluation of disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies in human context.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Intraflagellar transport protein IFT172 contains a C-terminal ubiquitin-binding U-box-like domain involved in ciliary signaling

    Nevin K Zacharia, Stefanie Kuhns ... Esben Lorentzen
    The IFT172 C-terminus bridges IFT-A and IFT-B complexes through mutually exclusive interactions with IFT140 and IFT144, and harbors a U-box-like domain linking intraflagellar transport to ubiquitin-dependent ciliary signaling.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    From multiplicity of infection to force of infection in sparsely sampled high-transmission Plasmodium falciparum populations

    Qi Zhan, Kathryn E Tiedje ... Mercedes Pascual
    Queuing theory links multiplicity of infection (MOI) to force of infection (FOI), enabling the estimation of transmission intensity for falciparum malaria (and other infectious diseases) from sparsely sampled surveys.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Exploration of precision coregulator TR-FRET identifies diverse signatures for LXR ligands relevant to discovery of nonlipogenic ABCA1 inducers

    Megan S Laham, Martha S Ackerman-Berrier ... Gregory RJ Thatcher
    Coregulator TR-FRET profiling reveals ligand-specific LXR signaling signatures that can guide the therapeutic design of ABCA1-inducing LXR agonists with attenuated risk of hepatic lipogenesis.