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. Developmental Biology

    Single-cell characterization of anterior segment development in the mouse reveals the cell types, pathways, and signals driving formation of the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm’s canal

    Revathi Balasubramanian, Nicholas Tolman ... Simon WM John
    High-resolution single-cell transcriptomics reveals the molecular programs and signaling networks driving Schlemm's canal and trabecular meshwork development, establishing a foundation for understanding glaucoma pathogenesis.
    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

    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. 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. Developmental Biology

    Paternal over- and under-nutrition programme fetal and placental development in a sex-specific manner in mice

    Hannah L Morgan, Nader Eid ... Adam J Watkins
    Poor paternal nutrition at the time of conception shapes post-fertilisation developmental trajectory, fetal growth, and placental dynamics.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    FMRP regulates neuronal RNA granules containing stalled ribosomes, not where ribosomes stall

    Jewel T-Y Li, Mehdi Amiri ... Wayne S Sossin
    The loss of FMRP does not affect how neuronal ribosomes are stalled or where they are stalled, but reduces the number of neuronal RNA granules that contain stalled ribosomes.
    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.
    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.