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

    Human neurocomputational mechanisms of guilt-driven and shame-driven altruistic behavior

    Ruida Zhu, Huanqing Wang ... Chao Liu
    Harm and responsibility differentially shape guilt and shame, which in turn drive compensatory behavior to varying extents.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Glycogen engineering improves the starvation resistance of mesenchymal stem cells and their therapeutic efficacy in pulmonary fibrosis

    Yongyue Xu, Mamatali Rahman ... Qiong Wu
    Glycogen engineering strategies of mammalian cells were developed, which improved the survival of mesenchymal stem cells post-implantation and their therapeutic efficacy in pulmonary fibrosis model.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Asynchronous mouse embryo polarization leads to heterogeneity in cell fate specification

    Adiyant Lamba, Meng Zhu ... Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
    Mouse embryo cells undergo apical-basal polarization asynchronously at the 8-cell stage, and the timing of polarization influences subsequent lineage allocation.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A modular platform to display multiple hemagglutinin subtypes on a single immunogen

    Dana Thornlow Lamson, Faez Amokrane Nait Mohamed ... Aaron G Schmidt
    BOAS is a platform for building multivalent viral protein immunogens without a scaffold, such as a nanoparticle, to elicit broad influenza vaccine responses.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Theory of active self-organization of dense nematic structures in the actin cytoskeleton

    Waleed Mirza, Marco De Corato ... Marino Arroyo
    Theoretical and computational modeling reveals a mechanism of active patterning of uniform isotropic actin gels into dense nematic bundles, providing a physical basis for the adaptability of the actin cytoskeleton.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    PPARγ mediated enhanced lipid biogenesis fuels Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in a drug-tolerant hepatocyte environment

    Binayak Sarkar, Jyotsna Singh ... Rajesh S Gokhale
    In vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo studies reveal that hepatocytes are significantly infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which rewires the host cell metabolism to upregulate the lipid biosynthetic pathways.
    1. Neuroscience

    Rapid rebalancing of co-tuned ensemble activity in the auditory cortex

    HiJee Kang, Travis A Babola, Patrick O Kanold
    Holographic neuronal stimulation shows that auditory cortex neurons with shared functional properties rapidly adjust their responses during sensory processing, revealing a circuit-level mechanism that regulates overall network activity balance.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing

    Olivia J Hon, Sofia Neira ... Thomas L Kash
    Critical differences in how the BNST responds to different types of fear across male and female mice.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Characterisation of cell-scale signalling by the core planar polarity pathway during Drosophila wing development

    Alexandre Carayon, Helen Strutt, David Strutt
    Quantitative Drosophila pupal wing experiments support planar polarity depending on cell-scale signalling that does not involve depletion of a limited pool of core proteins or polarised transport on microtubules.