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

    Brain-derived estrogens facilitate male-typical behaviors by potentiating androgen receptor signaling in medaka

    Yuji Nishiike, Shizuku Maki ... Kataaki Okubo
    Estrogens produced in the teleost brain increase neural sensitivity to testicular androgens by directly stimulating androgen receptor transcription, thereby eliciting male-typical behaviors.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hypothalamic deiodinase type-3 establishes the period of circannual interval timing in mammals

    Calum Stewart, T Adam Liddle ... Tyler J Stevenson
    Transcriptomic and genomic mutations reveal the mechanistic basis of timing seasonal life history transitions.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Dilated cardiomyopathy-associated RNA-binding motif protein 20 regulates long pre-mRNAs in neurons

    Giulia Di Bartolomei, Raúl Ortiz ... Peter Scheiffele
    An alternative splicing regulator previously implicated in calcium signaling in the heart ensures cell-type-specific mRNA processing of long neuronal mRNAs in the mouse brain.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Predicting the effect of CRISPR-Cas9-based epigenome editing

    Sanjit Singh Batra, Alan Cabrera ... Yun S Song
    Machine learning models reveal that histone marks are predictive of gene expression across human cell types and highlight important nuances between natural control and the effects of CRISPR-Cas9-based epigenome editing.
    1. Cell Biology

    Chemotherapy resistance due to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is caused by abnormal lipid metabolic balance

    Atsushi Matsumoto, Akihito Inoko ... Junichi Ikenouchi
    Lipid imbalance triggered by Snail-driven epithelial–mesenchymal transition creates a cholesterol-dependent vulnerability that can be therapeutically targeted to overcome chemoresistance in cancer.
    1. Cell Biology

    Overexpression of Ssd1 and calorie restriction extend yeast replicative lifespan by preventing deleterious age-dependent iron uptake

    J Ignacio Gutierrez, Claudia Edgar, Jessica K Tyler
    Live imaging analyses in budding yeast reveal that calorie restriction and overexpression of the mRNA binding protein Ssd1 both block deleterious age-dependent iron uptake as a mechanism to extend lifespan.
    1. Neuroscience

    A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain

    Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Lucas Benjamin ... Stanislas Dehaene
    fMRI and MEG results in adults and children show encoding of abstract geometric regularities in dorsal-parietal, temporal, and frontal regions, pointing to a system for symbolic geometric representation in humans.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Linking complex microbial interactions and dysbiosis through a disordered Lotka–Volterra model

    Jacopo Pasqualini, Amos Maritan ... Samir Suweis
    Linking biological research with disordered-systems modeling, providing new insights into gut microbiome stability, functioning, and their relationship with health.
    1. Neuroscience

    Two classes of amine/glutamate multi-transmitter neurons innervate Drosophila internal male reproductive organs

    Marta Chaverra, John Paul Toney ... R Steven Stowers
    Drosophila internal male reproductive organs exhibit parallel innervation by two types of multi-transmitter neurons, a subset of which are essential for fertility, and organ-specific spatially discrete neurotransmitter receptor expression.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Short activation domains control chromatin association of transcription factors

    Vinson B Fan, Abrar A Abidi ... Max V Staller
    Single-molecule tracking of transcription factors in living cells revealed how mutations that make short activation domains stronger increased the fraction of transcription factor molecules bound to chromatin and led to longer residence times on chromatin.