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

    Nanophysiology approach reveals diversity in calcium microdomains across

    Nirujan Rameshkumar, Abhishek P Shrestha ... Thirumalini Vaithianathan
    Calcium levels and structural diversity among synaptic ribbons in bipolar neurons likely enable differential encoding of visual information, revealing a potential mechanism for fine-tuning sensory signal processing.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cross-species standardised cortico-subcortical tractography

    Stephania Assimopoulos, Shaun Warrington ... Stamatios N Sotiropoulos
    By providing new ways to map cortico-subcortical connectivity patterns, the proposed cross-species tractography approaches directly allow novel comparative studies between the human and macaque brain and enable subsequent explorations of brain-behaviour/disease symptom associations across individuals.
    1. Cell Biology

    Acidocalcisome-like vacuoles constitute a feedback-controlled phosphate buffering system for the cytosol

    Samuel Bru, Lydie Michaillat Mayer ... Andreas Mayer
    In vitro reconstitution identifies how lysosome-related vacuoles coordinate the synthesis and turnover of inorganic polyphosphates to create a powerful buffer system stabilising a vital metabolic parameter, the cytosolic concentration of phosphate.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Joint profiling of cell morphology and gene expression during in vitro neurodevelopment

    Adithi Sundaresh, Dimitri Meistermann ... Helena Kilpinen
    Molecular and morphological profiles of developing neurons in vitro uncover the cellular dynamics of human neurodevelopment and related disease.
    1. Neuroscience

    Complex opioid-driven modulation of glutamatergic and cholinergic neurotransmission in a GABAergic brain nucleus associated with emotion, reward, and addiction

    Ramesh Chittajallu, Anna Vlachos ... Chris J McBain
    A pharmacogenetic approach provides a foundational dataset describing the influence of opioids on synaptic processing in a brain microcircuit known to be critical for driving hedonic behaviors.
    1. Neuroscience

    C. elegans food choice exhibits effort discounting-like behavior

    Jonathan RM Millet, Serge Faumont ... Shawn R Lockery
    The demonstration of effort discounting-like behavior in a lower invertebrate sets a new phylogenetic boundary on discounting behavior.
    1. Neuroscience

    Individual differences in tail risk sensitive exploration using Bayes-adaptive Markov decision processes

    Tingke Shen, Peter Dayan
    A normative computational model of individual differences in mouse exploration driven by reward and threat uncertainty as well as risk sensitivity when faced with a novel object in an open field.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cerebellar Purkinje cell stripe patterns reveal a differential vulnerability and resistance to cell loss during normal aging in mice

    Sarah G Donofrio, Cheryl Brandenburg ... Roy V Sillitoe
    Purkinje cell subpopulations have varying vulnerability to age-related neurodegeneration, creating a striped pattern of cell loss that reflects the developmental, anatomical, and functional organization of the cerebellum.
    1. Neuroscience

    Center-surround inhibition in expectation and its underlying computational and artificial neural network models

    Ling Huang, Shiqi Shen ... Xilin Zhang
    Expectation optimizes perception through center-surround inhibition, enhancing expected representations while suppressing similar, irrelevant ones.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The Shigella flexneri effector IpaH1.4 facilitates RNF213 degradation and protects cytosolic bacteria against interferon-induced ubiquitylation

    Luz Saavedra-Sanchez, Mary S Dickinson ... Jorn Coers
    The enteric bacterial Shigella secretes a virulence factor that degrades the pivotal human defense protein RNF213, thereby protecting cytosolic bacteria from interferon-driven ubiquitylation and associated innate immunity.