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

    Human pannexin 1 channel is not phosphorylated by Src tyrosine kinase at Tyr199 and Tyr309

    Zheng Ruan, Junuk Lee ... Wei Lü
    A comprehensive analysis questioned the prevailing views of Src-mediated hPANX1 phosphorylation at Tyr199 and Tyr309.
    1. Plant Biology

    Natural genetic variation underlying the negative effect of elevated CO2 on ionome composition in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Oceane Cassan, Lea-Lou Pimpare ... Antoine Martin
    Plants show a high level of genetic diversity in their response to elevated CO2, suggesting the presence of genetic mechanisms that will allow them to adapt to this environmental change.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Resident and recruited macrophages differentially contribute to cardiac healing after myocardial ischemia

    Tobias Weinberger, Messerer Denise ... Christian Schulz
    In cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury, resident macrophages orchestrate the immune response and positively influence postinfarct remodeling, whereas recruited macrophages determine infarct size.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Aging impairs cold-induced beige adipogenesis and adipocyte metabolic reprogramming

    Corey D Holman, Alexander P Sakers ... Patrick Seale
    Single-cell expression profiling and genetic lineage analysis show that aging impairs adipocyte differentiation from precursor cells and blocks the thermogenic activation of adipocytes during cold exposure.
    1. Neuroscience

    Revealing intact neuronal circuitry in centimeter-sized formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded brain

    Ya-Hui Lin, Li-Wen Wang ... Li-An Chu
    A new approach uses heat-induced antigen retrieval to enable tissue clearing, multiple-round immunostaining, and expansion microscopy for volumetric imaging of centimeter-scale clinical formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens.
    1. Cell Biology

    Transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into muscle cells to constitute cultured meat with tunable intramuscular fat deposition

    Tongtong Ma, Ruimin Ren ... Heng Wang
    Efficient myogenic and lipogenic transdifferentiation of chicken fibroblasts in 3D culture produces meat with precisely controlled levels of intramuscular fat and extracellular matrix.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Inhibition of miR-199b-5p reduces pathological alterations in osteoarthritis by potentially targeting Fzd6 and Gcnt2

    Tong Feng, Qi Zhang ... Qiao-Feng Wu
    Serum exosomal sequencing combined with cell and animal experiments indicate that miRNA-199b-5p is a novel miRNA associated with osteoarthritis (OA) and can modulate the onset and progression of the disease.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Multi-tiered actions of Legionella effectors to modulate host Rab10 dynamics

    Tomoko Kubori, Kohei Arasaki ... Hiroki Nagai
    Interplay between multiple Legionella pneumophila effector proteins lead to spatial and temporal regulation of the host Rab10 localization to the bacterial vacuole by controlling noncanonical ubiquitin modifications.
    1. Neuroscience

    A fear conditioned cue orchestrates a suite of behaviors in rats

    Amanda Chu, Nicholas T Gordon ... Michael A McDannald