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. Cell Biology

    SETD6-mediated methylation of PPARγ establishes a transcriptional feedback circuit promoting lipid accumulation in liver-derived cells

    Noa Nashnaz, Dana Goldberg ... Dan Levy
    SETD6-mediated methylation of PPARγ establishes a positive feedback mechanism that enhances transcriptional activation and promotes hepatic lipid accumulation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Noradrenergic infraslow rhythm during sleep is the critical link between heart-rate dynamics and memory consolidation

    Sofie S Jacobsen, Allison B Morehouse ... Celia Kjaerby
    Very-low-frequency heart rate variability reflects locus coeruleus activity during sleep and predicts spindle-dependent memory consolidation across mice and humans.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Pre-Cambrian origin of envelope-carrying retrotransposons in metazoans

    Shashank Chary, Rippei Hayashi
    Envelope-carrying Ty3/gypsy LTR retrotransposons are ancient and widespread across animals, revealing deep evolutionary links between retroelements, viral fusogens, and retroviruses.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic fMRI networks of human emotion

    Niels Janssen, Uriel KA Elvira ... Theo GM van Erp
    Time-resolved mapping of whole-brain functional MRI networks during human emotional experience reveals a dynamic systems-level organization that links temporal processing with large-scale functional brain architecture.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Understanding pain in women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome: health risks and treatment effectiveness

    Tess Cherlin, Stephanie Mohammed ... Shefali Setia Verma
    Pain affects one in five women with PMOS, with pronounced racial disparities and meaningful reduction following targeted medical treatment.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Systematic analysis of network-driven adaptive resistance to CDK4/6 and oestrogen receptor inhibition using meta-dynamic network modelling

    Anthony Hart, Sung-Young Shin, Lan K Nguyen
    Meta Dynamic Network analysis can identify the capacity of a network to facilitate adaptive drug resistance and the respective underlying mechanistic causes.
    1. Cell Biology

    Zasp52’s differentially expressed intrinsically disordered region confers thin filament stability at the Z-disc

    Nikolai Ho, Frieder Schöck
    The Z-disc of muscle sarcomeres is a solid aggregate stabilized by the intrinsically disordered region of the Alp/Enigma family protein Zasp52.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs

    Junya Taniguchi, Tsubasa Inoue ... Yuuki Kawabata
    Sideways locomotion in true crabs likely originated once from a forward-moving ancestor, providing insight into how behavioral innovations shape evolutionary diversification.
    1. Cell Biology

    Disruption of sphingolipid metabolism promotes tau seeding through endolysosomal membrane rigidification and rupture

    Jessica Tittelmeier, Carl Alexander Sandhof ... Carmen Nussbaum-Krammer
    Restoring endolysosomal membrane fluidity limits tau seed escape, seeded aggregation, and neuronal toxicity in cell and animal models.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    A whole-animal phenotypic drug screen identifies suppressors of atherogenic lipoproteins

    Daniel J Kelpsch, Liyun Zhang ... Steven A Farber
    An in vivo small-molecule drug screen in developing zebrafish larvae identifies dozens of unique chemical modulators capable of reducing atherogenic apolipoprotein B levels.