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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    DNA tensiometer reveals catch-bond detachment kinetics of kinesin-1, -2, and -3

    Crystal R Noell, Tzu-Chen Ma ... William O Hancock
    All three kinesin transport families exhibit unexpectedly slow dissociation under load, explaining robust competition with dynein during bidirectional cargo transport.
    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. Neuroscience

    Serial dependence predicts generalization in perceptual learning

    Noga Pinchuk-Yacobi, Dov Sagi, Yoram S Bonneh
    A single temporal integration process links momentary perceptual biases to the generalization of learned skills, providing a unifying account of specificity versus flexibility in human learning.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural categorization of visual words of alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages

    Guo Zheng, Shihui Han
    Explaining the neural mechanisms underlying language-based, spontaneous categorization of visual words of alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages by combining electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, and a repetition suppression paradigm.
    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. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    DuoHexaBody-CD37 induces direct cytotoxic signaling in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

    Simar Pal Singh, Kumar Mangalam ... Annemiek B van Spriel
    DuoHexaBody‑CD37 triggers complement‑independent cytotoxic signaling in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), revealing therapeutic pathways that can be exploited to enhance tumor cell killing through targeted combination strategies.