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
    2. Neuroscience

    Predicting human decision-making across task conditions via individuality transfer

    Hiroshi Higashi
    Encoding individual behavioral traits into a low-dimensional latent representation enables the accurate prediction of decision-making patterns across distinct task conditions.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A high-resolution analysis of arrestin2 interactions responsible for CCR5 endocytosis

    Ivana Petrovic, Samit Desai ... Stephan Grzesiek
    Formation and stability of endocytic receptor-arrestin complexes during clathrin-mediated endocytosis are governed by phosphorylation-dependent arrestin-AP2 interactions.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    GMCL1 controls 53BP1 stability and modulates taxane sensitivity

    Yuki Kito, Tania J González-Robles ... Michele Pagano
    GMCL1-dependent degradation of 53BP1 suppresses mitotic surveillance, tuning p53 activation thresholds that govern cell fate decisions and cellular responses after mitosis.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Targeted computational design of an interleukin-7 superkine with enhanced folding efficiency and immunotherapeutic efficacy

    See-Khai Lim, Wen-Ching Lin ... Kurt Yun Mou
    Targeted computational redesign of an IL-7 superkine with enhanced folding efficiency and receptor affinity demonstrates superior immune-stimulatory and antitumor activity over wild-type IL-7.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Stratification of viral shedding patterns in saliva of COVID-19 patients

    Hyeongki Park, Yoshimura Raiki ... Taiga Miyazaki
    Distinct patterns of SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in saliva reveal heterogeneity that cannot be sufficiently explained by conventional clinical characteristics or microRNA profiles alone.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Biologically informed cortical models predict optogenetic perturbations

    Christos Sourmpis, Carl CH Petersen ... Guillaume Bellec
    Multi area RNN models fitted to in-vivo cortical activity predict behavioral changes induced by optogenetic perturbations, if biologically informed connectivity constraints on the optogenetically targeted inhibitory neurons are applied.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Glial betaPix is essential for blood vessel development in the zebrafish brain

    Shihching Chiu, Qinchao Zhou ... Jing-Wei Xiong
    The glial-specific role of betaPix during cerebral blood vessel development has been revealed by establishing a new betaPix conditional trap allele in zebrafish.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A dynamic scale-mixture model of motion in natural scenes

    Jared M Salisbury, Stephanie E Palmer
    A simple statistical model captures the essential features of object motion in a large database of natural scenes, helping to shed light on the challenges posed to sensory and motor systems.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing regulates cardiogenesis

    Adam D Langenbacher, Fei Lu ... Jau-Nian Chen
    Genetic approaches identify Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing as an essential mechanism governing the deployment of the cardiac gene program during myocardial differentiation from the mesoderm.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Functionally coupled ion channels begin co-assembling at the start of their synthesis

    Roya Pournejati, Jessica M Huang ... Oscar Vivas
    BK and CaV1.3 channels interact early during biogenesis, assembling intracellularly before membrane localization, indicating coordinated processes for functional coupling.