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. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Five-layer systems analysis of Leishmania stage differentiation reveals an essential role for protein degradation in parasite development

    Pascale Pescher, Thibaut Douché ... Gerald F Späth
    Integrated multi-omics profiling provides evidence for coordinated changes across RNA turnover, translation, phosphorylation, and protein degradation during Leishmania differentiation, generating candidate therapeutic targets for leishmaniasis.
    1. Cell Biology

    Aging-associated increase of GATA4 levels in articular cartilage is linked to impaired regenerative capacity of chondrocytes and osteoarthritis

    Meagan J Makarczyk, Yiqian Zhang ... Hang Lin
    GATA4 plays critical roles in chondrocyte aging, which may serve as a target to rejuvenation old chondrocytes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Human brain-wide activation of sleep rhythms

    Haiteng Wang, Qihong Zou ... Yunzhe Liu
    Simultaneous EEG–fMRI recordings in 107 human participants link coupled slow oscillations and sleep spindles to thalamic coordination of hippocampal–prefrontal communication during deep sleep.
    1. Neuroscience

    Spine nanostructure profiling of cultured neurons from mouse models reveals a schizophrenia-linked role for Ecrg4

    Yutaro Kashiwagi, Qingrui Liu ... Shigeo Okabe
    Population-level analysis of dendritic spine nanostructure identifies distinct synaptic signatures of schizophrenia and autism, revealing Ecrg4 as a regulator of schizophrenia-associated spine pathology.
    1. Ecology

    Global relationships between body size and urban affinity across more than 30,000 plant and animal species

    Corey T Callaghan, Diana E Bowler ... Thomas Merckx
    Across the tree of life, urban communities are consistently characterized by many urban-avoiding species and few urban exploiters, revealing a general pattern in biodiversity responses to urbanization.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A dual role for PGLYRP1 in host defense and immune regulation during B. pertussis infection

    David M Rickert, Sasha Cardozo ... Ciaran Skerry
    Bordetella pertussis hijacks the host innate immune protein PGLYRP1 via tracheal cytotoxin to suppress inflammation and evade killing, revealing a novel immune evasion strategy.
    1. Neuroscience

    In vivo mapping of striatal neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging

    Vasileios Ioakeimidis, Marco Palombo ... Claudia Metzler-Baddeley
    Novel SANDI diffusion modelling reveals Huntington’s disease-related striatal abnormalities in proxy soma measures, explaining atrophy and motor impairment, and supporting SANDI indices as in vivo biomarkers of human neurodegenerative processes.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Divergent C. elegans toxin alleles are suppressed by distinct mechanisms

    Stefan Zdraljevic, Laura Walter-McNeill ... Leonid Kruglyak
    A maternal toxin-antidote element has degenerated into an antidote-only remnant in some Caenorhabditis elegans isolates, while in others, the toxin may instead be silenced by small RNAs.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    A unifying model of T-cell signaling protein condensates in reconstitution experiments

    Yannick Azhri Din Omar, Simou Sun ... Arup K Chakraborty