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. Computational and Systems Biology

    Large-scale synthetic data enable digital twins of human excitable cells

    Pei-Chi Yang, Mao-Tsuen Jeng ... Colleen E Clancy
    Large-scale synthetic datasets enable construction of digital twins of individual human excitable cells from a single voltage-clamp recording.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The population structure of invasive Lantana camara is shaped by its mating system

    P Praveen, Rajesh Gopal, Uma Ramakrishnan
    Invasive Lantana camara exhibits strong genetic structure, unlike many invasive species, likely driven by predominant self-fertilization across its invasive range rather than the presence of multiple species.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural dynamics of IRE1 and its interaction with unfolded peptides

    Elena Spinetti, Grzegorz Ścibisz ... Roberto Covino
    A unified structural model of IRE1 activation reconciles conflicting sensing theories by characterizing specific peptide-binding sites and the mechanism by which BiP regulates oligomerization during the unfolded protein response.
    1. Neuroscience

    Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates

    Jonas Simoens, Senne Braem ... Tom Verguts
    Humans adapt learning rates on both a fast and a slow time scale, and the central orbitofrontal cortex may represent the slow time scale.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-mediated fast and coordinated Ca²+ responses regulate NF-κB activation

    Fangrui Guo, Roberto Ornelas Guevara ... Guy Tran Van Nhieu
    Through low levels of extracellular ATP, EPEC induces small, rapid and coordinated Ca2+ responses in epithelial cells, a yet unreported pattern, that down-regulate inflammation at the onset of infection.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Single-cell characterization of anterior segment development in the mouse reveals the cell types, pathways, and signals driving formation of the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm’s canal

    Revathi Balasubramanian, Nicholas Tolman ... Simon WM John
    High-resolution single-cell transcriptomics reveals the molecular programs and signaling networks driving Schlemm's canal and trabecular meshwork development, establishing a foundation for understanding glaucoma pathogenesis.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reactive oxygen detoxification contributes to Mycobacterium abscessus antibiotic survival

    Nicholas A Bates, Ronald Rodriguez ... Bennett H Penn
    Antibiotics that inhibit translation cause a burst in reactive oxygen species, and these must be detoxified by factors such as KatG for cells to survive.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators

    Cauã Antunes Westmann, Leander Goldbach, Andreas Wagner
    Across three global Escherichia coli regulators, identical starting sequences can evolve toward many distinct strong-binding peaks, with chance, historical contingency, and evolutionary bias shaping which outcomes prevail.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Quantitative computerized analysis demonstrates strongly compartmentalized tissue deformation patterns underlying mammalian heart tube formation

    Morena Raiola, Miquel Sendra Sendra ... Miguel Torres
    A computational pipeline leverages mammalian heart development videos to extract tissue deformation patterns and generate a virtual fate map tool that provides new insights into cardiac morphogenesis.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    DNA tensiometer reveals catch-bond detachment kinetics of kinesin-1, -2, and -3

    Crystal R Noell, Tzu-Chen Ma ... William O Hancock
    All three kinesin transport families exhibit unexpectedly slow dissociation under load, explaining robust competition with dynein during bidirectional cargo transport.