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. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Isolation of small extracellular vesicles from small volumes of blood plasma using size exclusion chromatography and density gradient ultracentrifugation

    Fang Kong, Megha Upadya ... Ming Dao
    The optimized protocol for isolating small extracellular vesicles from small blood volumes, confirmed by independent methods including cryo-electron microscopy, ensures superior purity and high yield for reliable biomarker detection.
    1. Neuroscience

    Involuntary feedback responses reflect a representation of partner actions

    Seth R Sullivan, John H Buggeln ... Joshua GA Cashaback
    High-level partner representations tune low-level visuomotor reflexes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sexual dimorphism in sensorimotor transformation of optic flow

    Sarah Nicholas, Katja Sporar Klinge ... Karin Nordström
    Descending neurons that encode widefield motion vision in the fly have sexually dimorphic velocity tuning, while the wing beat amplitude, which these neurons presumably control, is monomorphic.
    1. Neuroscience

    The nucleus accumbens shell regulates hedonic feeding via a rostral hotspot

    Alina-Măriuca Marinescu, Eshita Kamal ... Marie A Labouesse
    Within the nucleus accumbens shell, a spatially defined rostral subregion selectively modulates hedonic feeding, revealing functional heterogeneity in reward circuitry underlying food consumption.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Single-cell transcriptomics-informed induced pluripotent stem cells differentiation to tenogenic lineage

    Angela Papalamprou, Victoria Yu ... Dmitriy Sheyn
    Exploring the differentiation of iPSC to trunk tenocytes and how the single-cell RNA sequencing and pathway analysis can assist in making it more specific.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Lipopolysaccharide stimulates dynamic changes in B cell metabolism to promote proliferation

    Dana MS Cheung, Momchil Razsolkov ... J Simon C Arthur
    B cell activation and antibody class switching requires coordinated metabolic rewiring, with essential roles for amino acid transport, cholesterol metabolism, and prenylation in driving proliferation across multiple activating stimuli.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multimodal MRI marker of cognition explains the association between cognition and mental health in the UK Biobank

    Irina Buianova, Mateus Silvestrin ... Narun Pat
    Multimodal stacking of MRI‑based markers of cognition reveals a shared brain architecture that links cognitive performance with mental health, explaining nearly half of their observed association.
    1. Neuroscience

    Uncovering the electrical synapse proteome in retinal neurons via in vivo proximity labeling

    Stephan Tetenborg, Eyad Shihabeddin ... John O'Brien
    A proximity labeling screen uncovers the proteome of electrical synapses in retinal neurons.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Twelve phosphomimetic mutations induce the assembly of recombinant full-length human tau into paired helical filaments

    Sofia Lövestam, Jane L Wagstaff ... Sjors HW Scheres
    Phosphomimetic mutations allow the assembly of full-length recombinant tau into Alzheimer's paired helical filaments by disrupting intramolecular contacts between its ordered core and fuzzy coat.
    1. Cell Biology

    The multifaceted role of EXOC6A in ciliogenesis

    Te-Lin Lin, Chien-Ting Wu, Tang K Tang
    EXOC6A cooperates with myosin-Va to regulate vesicle trafficking and membrane remodeling during ciliogenesis, enabling ciliary vesicle maturation, transition zone assembly, and proper delivery of ciliary membrane proteins.