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

    Continuous developmental changes in word recognition and language learning across early childhood

    Michael C Frank, Virginia A Marchman ... Martin Zettersten
    Analysis of data across many different studies shows that children's word recognition improves continuously from infancy through age 5 years, and shows strong coupling with early vocabulary.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Arrayed single-gene perturbations identify drivers of human anterior neural tube closure

    Roya E Huang, Giridhar M Anand ... Sharad Ramanathan
    A method for arrayed CRISPRi screening in organoids enables the investigation of morphogenesis in human stem cell-derived tissues, revealing the roles of ZIC2, SOX11, and ZNF521 in neural tube closure.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Impacts of DNA methylation on H2A.Z deposition and nucleosome stability

    Rochelle M Shih, Yasuhiro Arimura ... Hironori Funabiki
    DNA methylation suppresses H2A.Z deposition by inhibiting recruitment of the chaperone SRCAP, while the structural study suggests that methylated DNA can make the H2A.Z nucleosome slightly more accessible.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multiple event segmentation mechanisms in the human brain

    Tan T Nguyen, Joset A Etzel ... Jeffrey M Zacks
    The brain uses separate prediction error and prediction uncertainty signals to trigger event boundaries.
    1. Neuroscience

    Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year

    Trinh Nguyen, Félix Bigand ... Giacomo Novembre
    Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full maturity.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas

    Jacob D Bowman, Neide Silva ... Vincent J Lynch
    Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Optimised genome editing for precise DNA insertion and substitution using prime editors in zebrafish

    Yosuke Ono, Martin Peterka ... Steffen Scholpp
    Nickase and nuclease Prime Editors offer complementary routes for precise zebrafish genome editing, balancing accuracy for substitutions with efficiency for short insertions.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Mechanistic insights into transcriptional regulation of ARHGAP36 expression identify a factor predictive of neuroblastoma survival

    Serhiy Havrylov, Armin M Gamper, Ordan J Lehmann
    Genetic experiments integrated with ChIP-sequencing and CRISPR interference reveal that overexpression of Foxc1 transcriptionally activates the expression of Arhgap36 and dysregulates multiple facets of Hedgehog pathway activity.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Activity-dependent CO2 production in the axon triggers opening of Connexin32 in the Schwann cell paranode

    Jack Butler, Lowell Mott ... Nicholas Dale
    Gaseous CO2 acts as a neuron to glia messenger in peripheral myelin to trigger opening of Schwann Cell Cx32 hemichannels in response to axonal action potential propagation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Lipid packing contributes to the confinement of caveolae to the plasma membrane

    Elin Larsson, Aleksei Kabedev ... Richard Lundmark
    Membrane insertion of Dyngo-4a results in a dynamin-independent inhibition of caveola dynamics, revealing that outer leaflet lipid packing in the plasma membrane contributes to the confinement of caveolae.