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. Neuroscience

    Effort produces after-effects costly for others but valued for self

    Ya Zheng, Rumeng Tang
    Neural reward signals following effort are amplified for self-benefiting outcomes but attenuated for other-benefiting outcomes, contingent upon reward magnitude and individual effort sensitivity.
    1. Neuroscience

    A meta-analysis suggests that TMS targeting the hippocampal network selectively improves episodic memory

    Elena Badillo Goicoechea, Phillip F Agres ... Joel L Voss
    Meta-analysis indicates that network-targeted non-invasive brain stimulation consistently enhances memory function supported by the hippocampal network, thus providing robust evidence that specific memory abilities rely on specific modifiable brain networks.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Identification of the regulatory elements and protein substrates of lysine acetoacetylation

    Qianyun Fu, Terry Nguyen ... Y George Zheng
    A newly developed chemo-immunological strategy enabled detection of acetoacetate-mediated lysine acetoacetylation, identified the associated regulatory enzymes, and revealed its distinct biological functions and physiological significance.
    1. Neuroscience

    Subregional activity in the dentate gyrus is amplified during elevated cognitive demands

    Charlotte Castillon, Shintaro Otsuka ... Anis Contractor
    Selective engagement of suprapyramidal dentate gyrus neurons during a high-demand pattern separation task reveals blade-specific circuit engagement for enhancing mnemonic discrimination.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Physiological febrile heat stress increases cytoadhesion through increased protein trafficking of Plasmodium falciparum surface proteins into the red blood cell

    David Jones, Hugo Belda ... Moritz Treeck
    Fever, often seen as protective, accelerates protein export to surfaces of malaria-infected RBCs, increasing adhesion linked to disease severity.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable neural substrates of integration and segregation in exogenous attention

    Yujie Chen, Ai-Su Li ... Yang Zhang
    Dissociable neural signatures of integration and segregation provide the first direct neuroimaging evidence for the integration-segregation theory of exogenous attention.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Intravital calcium imaging of meningeal macrophages reveals niche-specific dynamics and aberrant responses to brain hyperexcitability

    Simone Carneiro-Nascimento, Chao Wei ... Dan Levy
    Intravital microscopy of meningeal macrophage Ca²⁺ dynamics reveals previously unknown population heterogeneity, vasomotion-coupled activity, and diverse responses during steady state and neuroinflammatory conditions, offering relevant insights into brain immune regulation.
    1. Neuroscience

    A context-free model of savings in motor learning

    Mahdiyar Shahbazi, Olivier Codol ... Paul L Gribble
    Recurrent neural network models trained on a novel motor skill exhibit a persistent shift in preparatory activity that enables faster relearning, without cognitive or contextual cues.
    1. Neuroscience

    An altered cell-specific subcellular distribution of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase kappa (POLK) in aging mouse neurons

    Mofida Abdelmageed, Premkumar Palanisamy ... Anirban Paul
    Progressive DNA polymerase kappa relocalization in aging neurons associates with increased DNA damage and identifies a novel cell type- and activity-dependent role in neuronal genome maintenance.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Drosophila ryanodine receptor gene triggers functional and developmental muscle properties and could be used to assess the impact of human RYR1 mutations

    Monika Zmojdzian, Teresa Jagla ... Catherine Sarret
    The Drosophila ryanodine receptor plays a conserved role in setting functional and structural muscle properties, regulates embryonic muscle development and could be used to assess the impact of human RYR1 mutations.