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. Developmental Biology

    Fat body-derived cytokine Upd2 controls disciplined migration of tracheal stem cells in Drosophila

    Pengzhen Dong, Yue Li ... Hai Huang
    Long-range communication between neighboring organs orchestrates the disciplined migration of stem cells.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A within-host infection model to explore tolerance and resistance

    David Duneau, Pierre DM Lafont ... Jean-Baptiste Ferdy
    A mathematical model of pathogen within-host dynamics and experimental validations elucidates the interplay between immune response, damage and pathogen proliferation, highlighting the limitations of current experimental proxies and proposing new methods to better understand host resistance and disease tolerance.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Upstream open reading frames buffer translational variability during Drosophila evolution and development

    Yuanqiang Sun, Yuange Duan ... Jian Lu
    Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) function as regulatory elements that buffer translation variability, stabilizing protein expression across animal developmental stages and evolutionary timescales.
    1. Neuroscience

    Different roles of D1/D2 medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens in pair bond formation of male mandarin voles

    Lizi Zhang, Yishan Qu ... Fa-Dao Tai
    In male mandarin voles, D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons within the nucleus accumbens shell exert distinct influences on pair bond formation.
    1. Cell Biology

    Clearance of protein aggregates during cell division

    Shoukang Du, Yuhan Wang ... Ting Gang Chew
    ER aggregates confined in the nucleus are cleared via ER reorganization when cells progress through mitosis and cytokinesis.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A general mechanism for initiating the bacterial general stress response

    Rishika Baral, Kristin Ho ... Niels Bradshaw
    A coiled-coil-based transduction mechanism is identified for a serine/threonine phosphatase that controls a bacterial stress response, suggesting that phosphatases are part of a modularly exchangeable toolkit for bacterial signaling.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Deep sequencing of yeast and mouse tRNAs and tRNA fragments using OTTR

    Hans Tobias Gustafsson, Lucas Ferguson ... Oliver J Rando
    A recently developed RNA cloning protocol efficiently captures both intact and fragmented tRNAs.
    1. Neuroscience

    Location- and feature-based selection histories make independent, qualitatively distinct contributions to urgent visuomotor performance

    Emily E Oor, Emilio Salinas, Terrence R Stanford
    During visual search, the choice of where to look next is biased to a remarkable degree by the location and color histories of recently viewed target stimuli.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Dynamical mechanisms of growth-feedback effects on adaptive gene circuits

    Ling-Wei Kong, Wenjia Shi ... Ying-Cheng Lai
    Systematic simulations reveal how growth feedback undermines the stability of adaptive gene circuits in a topology-dependent manner.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chalkophore-mediated respiratory oxidase flexibility controls M. tuberculosis virulence

    John A Buglino, Yaprak Ozakman ... Michael S Glickman
    M. tuberculosis produces a copper binding diisonitrile chalkophore to maintain the copper-dependent respiratory oxidase during infection, identifying a pathogen strategy that defends oxidative phosphorylation against host attack.