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. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Global risk mapping of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and H5Nx in the light of epidemic episodes occurring from 2020 onwards

    Marie-Cécile Dupas, Maria F Vincenti-Gonzalez ... Simon Dellicour
    Post-2020, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 circulation is characterised by spatially expanded ecological suitability, changes in key environmental predictors, and a wider range of avian species affected.
    1. Neuroscience

    Executive resources shape the impact of language predictability across the adult lifespan

    Merle Marie Schuckart, Sandra Martin ... Jonas Obleser
    Analyses of self-paced reading times reveal that linguistic prediction deteriorates under limited executive resources, with this resource sensitivity becoming markedly more pronounced with advancing age.
    1. Neuroscience

    Identifying regulators of associative learning using a protein-labelling approach in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Aelon Rahmani, Anna McMillen ... Yee Lian Chew
    An innovative and scalable proximity labelling method profiled proteins present in the Caenorhabditis elegans brain during learning, identifying known regulators as well as novel biological pathways.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mast cells promote pathology and susceptibility in tuberculosis

    Ananya Gupta, Vibha Taneja ... Shabaana A Khader
    Conserved mast-cell activation, marked by elevated protease expression, aligns with progressive tuberculosis across human, macaque, and murine models.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Microglia replacement by ER-Hoxb8 conditionally immortalized macrophages provides insight into Aicardi–Goutières syndrome neuropathology

    Kelsey M Nemec, Genevieve Uy ... F Chris Bennett
    A microglia replacement approach demonstrates that brain macrophages with patient mutations from Aicardi–Goutières syndrome, a genetic, brain predominant interferonopathy, are sufficient to drive interferon responses.
    1. Neuroscience

    Inhibitory circuits control leg movements during Drosophila grooming

    Durafshan Sakeena Syed, Primoz Ravbar, Julie H Simpson
    Anatomical and behavioral characterization of inhibitory neurons in the Drosophila ventral nerve cord shows their critical, diverse roles in limb coordination.
    1. Neuroscience

    TRPV3 channel activity helps cortical neurons stay active during fever

    Yiming Shen, Richárd Fiáth ... Michelle W Antoine
    Developmental electrophysiological adaptations and heat-sensitive proteins, such as TRPV3, in cortical excitatory neurons help maintain stable activity levels when brain temperature rises by 2–3°C during fever.
    1. Neuroscience

    Synaptic mechanisms modulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of striatal direct pathway neurons and motor output

    John J Marshall, Jian Xu ... Anis Contractor
    Bidirectional modulation of the activity of the synaptic protein mGluR5 alters spontaneous mouse motor behavior and produces correlated changes in co-activity patterns among direct pathway neurons in the dorsal striatum.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Directed differentiation of functional corticospinal-like neurons from endogenous SOX6+/NG2+ cortical progenitors

    Abdulkadir Ozkan, Hari K Padmanabhan ... Jeffrey D Macklis
    Developmentally-based directed differentiation from cortical progenitors sets a foundation for in vitro mechanistic and therapeutic disease modeling, and toward regenerative neuronal repopulation and circuit repair.
    1. Cell Biology

    Axonal distribution of mitochondria maintains neuronal autophagy during aging via eIF2β

    Kanako Shinno, Yuri Miura ... Kanae Ando
    Upregulation of the β subunit of translation initiation factor eIF2 underlies autophagy suppression and premature aging caused by disruption of axonal transport of mitochondria.