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. Medicine

    Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals

    Chaoqun Ni, Isabel Basson ... Vincent Larivière
    Gender differences in submission behavior, driven by self-perceptions of novelty and peer discouragement, limit women’s representation in high-impact journals and, in turn, their scientific visibility and career advancement.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Motor biases reflect a misalignment between visual and proprioceptive reference frames

    Tianhe Wang, J Ryan Morehead ... Jonathan S Tsay
    The pattern of reaching biases is stable across contexts and can be attributed to a misalignment between eye-centric and body-centric representations of position.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Male-biased Cyp17a2 orchestrates antiviral sexual dimorphism in fish via STING stabilization and viral protein degradation

    Long-Feng Lu, Bao-jie Cui ... Shun Li
    Cyp17a2 enhances antiviral responses in male zebrafish by stabilizing STING through TRIM11-mediated K33-linked polyubiquitination, boosting IFN production.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cell cycle-dependent cues regulate temporal patterning of the Drosophila central brain neural stem cells

    Gonzalo N Morales Chaya, Mubarak Hussain Syed
    Intrinsic cell cycle progression governs developmental time in neural stem cells by regulating temporal gene transitions that generate neural diversity.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Impaired excitability of fast-spiking neurons in a novel mouse model of KCNC1 epileptic encephalopathy

    Eric R Wengert, Sophie R Liebergall ... Ethan M Goldberg
    Brain slice electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and in vivo two-photon calcium imaging identify circuit dysfunction and epilepsy mechanism in a Kcnc1-A421V/+ mouse model of developmental and epileptic encephalopathy.
    1. Neuroscience

    Unravelling the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying counterconditioning in humans

    Lisa Wirz, Maxime C Houtekamer ... Erno Hermans
    Counterconditioning improved safety memory retrieval over regular extinction, showing a shift away from vmPFC towards nucleus accumbens, and may thereby be a promising new treatment option.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Ribosome demand links transcriptional bursts to protein expression noise

    Sampriti Pal, Upasana Ray, Riddhiman Dhar
    Propagation of expression noise from mRNA to protein level is influenced by variation in availability of ribosomal machinery.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Kinematics and morphological correlates of descent strategies in arboreal mammals suggest early upright postures in euprimates

    Severine LD Toussaint, Dionisios Youlatos, John A Nyakatura
    Vertical locomotion in arboreal mammals is shaped by a complex interplay of body mass, limb proportions, grasping abilities, and head mass, and primates use distinct upright postures during descents.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Deep neural networks to register and annotate cells in moving and deforming nervous systems

    Adam A Atanas, Alicia Kun-Yang Lu ... Steven W Flavell
    New machine vision tools are used to align densely packed cells recorded from live, deforming tissues and automatically annotate the identities of the recorded cell types.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst

    Kei Jokura, Sanja Jasek ... Gáspár Jékely
    Volume EM and connectome reconstruction of the apical organ of a ctenophore combined with high-speed imaging reveals a neuronal coordination of balancer cilia in the gravisensory organ.