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.
The Mettl5/Trmt112 complex alters rRNA methylation, increasing PERIOD protein linking ribosome function, clock genes, and proteasome in sleep regulation in Drosophila.
Humans’ flexible temporal cognition, including mental time travel, arises from perspective-agnostic encoding of event sequences in the hippocampus and perspective-dependent retrieval and reconstruction in the posterior parietal cortex.
David Ocampo, Carlos Daniel Cadena ... Gustavo A Londoño
In Neotropical birds, eggshells show that water vapor conductance declines with elevation, but structural responses vary across species, suggesting no single underlying mechanism and highlighting the need to further evaluate eggshell traits as determinants of elevational limits.
A high-resolution 3D imaging platform reveals the periportal lamellar complex as a novel structural feature in the mouse liver, regulating bile duct and nerve migration during fibrosis.
High levels of circulating estradiol enable the RP3V kisspeptin neuron population to exhibit long-lasting synchronized oscillatory behavior that drives GnRH neurons to initiate the LH surge.
Soenke Cordeiro, Robert Patejdl ... Marianne A Musinszki
Identification of mangostins as potent BK channel activators links natural xanthones to vascular smooth muscle relaxation, providing a mechanistic basis for their reported antihypertensive effects.
Alicja Monaghan, Richard AI Bethlehem ... Duncan E Astle
Contrary to prior work, principal axes of structural and functional connectivity are established early in life, remaining stable and undergoing refinement throughout development.
The first all-atom models of the mycobacterial outer membrane reveal how lipid organization and asymmetry generate a structurally heterogeneous barrier that underlies its unique permeability properties.
A fully computationally designed SaCas9 variant expands PAM recognition to NNNRRT, achieving up to 116-fold higher editing at noncanonical sites while matching the performance of experimentally evolved variants.
Continuous flash suppression reduces V1 orientation responses in an ocular-dominance-dependent manner, which may still allow low-level coarse orientation discrimination but provide insufficient information for higher-level visual and cognitive tasks.
