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

    Profiling presynaptic scaffolds using split-GFP reconstitution reveals cell-type-specific spatial configurations in the fly brain

    Hongyang Wu, Yoh Maekawa ... Hiromu Tanimoto
    Profiling endogenous Bruchpilot proteins in multiple cell types in mushroom bodies uncovered multilayered spatial configurations of active zones, from stereotyped intracellular distribution patterns to local arrangements of neighboring synapses.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional connectivity-based attractor dynamics of the human brain in rest, task, and disease

    Robert Englert, Balint Kincses ... Tamas Spisak
    Functional connectivity reveals brain attractors that match predictions of free‑energy‑minimizing attractor theory, yielding an interpretable generative model of brain dynamics in rest, task, and disease.
    1. Neuroscience

    Formation of task representations and replay in mouse medial prefrontal cortex

    Hamed Shabani, Hannah Muysers ... Christian Leibold
    Longitudinal calcium imaging in the medial prefrontal cortex reveals the emergence of de novo task representations and reward-associated replay.
    1. Neuroscience

    Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks

    Mengyu Tian, Xiang Xiao ... Marina Bedny
    At birth, infant visual cortex connectivity resembles that of blind adults, while lifetime visual experience enhances long-range functional connectivity between visual cortices, sensorimotor systems, and dampens connectivity with executive networks.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterial metallophosphatase MmpE acts as a nucleomodulin to regulate host gene expression and promote intracellular survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes nucleomodulins to disrupt host inflammatory responses and lysosomal maturation, uncovering a novel strategy for immune evasion and intracellular survival.
    1. Neuroscience

    iGABASnFR2 is an improved genetically encoded protein sensor of GABA

    Ilya Kolb, Jeremy P Hasseman ... Glenn C Turner
    An improved genetically encoded GABA sensor enables the most effective direct optical measurement of inhibitory neurotransmission to date.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Earliest evidence of elephant butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) reveals the evolutionary impact of early human megafaunal exploitation

    Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano ... Audax Mabulla
    The discovery of the earliest direct evidence of systematic proboscidean butchery at Olduvai Gorge demonstrates that by 1.8 Ma early hominins had strategically integrated megafaunal exploitation into their subsistence systems.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Dietary sulfur amino acid restriction elicits a cold-like transcriptional response in inguinal but not epididymal white adipose tissue of male mice

    Philip MM Ruppert, Aylin S Gueller ... Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld
    Transcriptomic profiling on liver and adipose depots reveals tissue-specific and beige-fat–convergent responses to methionine restriction and cold, providing a high-quality resource to guide combinatorial lifestyle interventions for metabolic disease research.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    p53-induced RNA-binding protein ZMAT3 inhibits transcription of a hexokinase to suppress mitochondrial respiration in human cancer cells

    Ravi Kumar, Simon Couly ... Ashish Lal
    Global proteomics and functional analyses reveal that p53-induced ZMAT3 suppresses mitochondrial respiration by inhibiting transcription of a hexokinase, uncovering a role for ZMAT3 in transcription.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The Fd4 transcription factor translates transient spatial cues in progenitors into long-term lineage identity

    Sen-Lin Lai, Chris Q Doe
    Fd4 is expressed in NB7-1 and new-born progeny where it activates terminal selector genes to produce lineage-specific neurons.