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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Neuroscience

    Organization of circuits linking descending input to motor output in the Drosophila Male Adult Nerve Cord connectome

    Han SJ Cheong, Katharina Eichler ... Gwyneth M Card
    Circuit analyses of synaptic connectivity in networks connecting descending and motor neurons in the Drosophila Male Adult Nerve Cord connectome reveal the modular network organization of descending to motor pathways.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Paternal over- and under-nutrition programme fetal and placental development in a sex-specific manner in mice

    Hannah L Morgan, Nader Eid ... Adam J Watkins
    Poor paternal nutrition at the time of conception shapes post-fertilisation developmental trajectory, fetal growth, and placental dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Serotonergic modulation of motor subspace dynamics drives a sleep-independent quiescent state

    Kexin Qi, Yuming Chai ... Quan Wen
    Serotonin promotes a sleep-independent quiescent state through selective modulation of motor neural population dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    The view tolerance of human identity recognition depends on horizontal face information

    Alexia Roux-Sibilon, Helene Dumont ... Valerie Goffaux
    View-tolerant identity recognition in humans depends on the stable identity cues provided by horizontal facial information.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Enhanced processivity and collective force production of kinesin-1 at low radial forces

    Andrew M Hensley, Ahmet Yildiz
    Reducing vertical forces reveals kinesin-1 as a robust motor capable of sustaining high loads and efficiently generating large collective forces with multiple motors.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Cluster size determines internal structure of transcription factories in human cells

    Massimiliano Semeraro, Giuseppe Negro ... Davide Marenduzzo
    In a polymer model of chromatin that explicitly incorporates different types of transcription factors, both specialised and mixed factories emerge naturally, with their composition governed by their size.