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. Developmental Biology

    Glial betaPix is essential for blood vessel development in the zebrafish brain

    Shihching Chiu, Qinchao Zhou ... Jing-Wei Xiong
    The glial-specific role of betaPix during cerebral blood vessel development has been revealed by establishing a new betaPix conditional trap allele in zebrafish.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Targeted computational design of an interleukin-7 superkine with enhanced folding efficiency and immunotherapeutic efficacy

    See-Khai Lim, Wen-Ching Lin ... Kurt Yun Mou
    Targeted computational redesign of an IL-7 superkine with enhanced folding efficiency and receptor affinity demonstrates superior immune-stimulatory and antitumor activity over wild-type IL-7.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Biologically informed cortical models predict optogenetic perturbations

    Christos Sourmpis, Carl CH Petersen ... Guillaume Bellec
    Multi area RNN models fitted to in-vivo cortical activity predict behavioral changes induced by optogenetic perturbations, if biologically informed connectivity constraints on the optogenetically targeted inhibitory neurons are applied.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Stratification of viral shedding patterns in saliva of COVID-19 patients

    Hyeongki Park, Yoshimura Raiki ... Taiga Miyazaki
    Distinct patterns of SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in saliva reveal heterogeneity that cannot be sufficiently explained by conventional clinical characteristics or microRNA profiles alone.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A dynamic scale-mixture model of motion in natural scenes

    Jared M Salisbury, Stephanie E Palmer
    A simple statistical model captures the essential features of object motion in a large database of natural scenes, helping to shed light on the challenges posed to sensory and motor systems.
    1. Medicine

    Association between continuous glucose monitoring-derived metrics and coronary plaque vulnerability: A retrospective exploratory analysis

    Hikaru Sugimoto, Ken-ichi Hironaka ... Shinya Kuroda
    The mean, variance, and autocorrelation of glucose dynamics are independently associated with coronary plaque vulnerability.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing regulates cardiogenesis

    Adam D Langenbacher, Fei Lu ... Jau-Nian Chen
    Genetic approaches identify Rtf1-dependent transcriptional pausing as an essential mechanism governing the deployment of the cardiac gene program during myocardial differentiation from the mesoderm.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Functionally coupled ion channels begin co-assembling at the start of their synthesis

    Roya Pournejati, Jessica M Huang ... Oscar Vivas
    BK and CaV1.3 channels interact early during biogenesis, assembling intracellularly before membrane localization, indicating coordinated processes for functional coupling.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Insights from aquaporin structures into drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone Weyand
    Cryo-EM structures of human aquaporin AQP2 bound to the anti-trypanosomal drugs pentamidine and melarsoprol identify the molecular mechanism for drug-resistant sleeping sickness.
    1. Neuroscience

    Prefoldin 5 is a microtubule-associated protein that suppresses Tau aggregation and neurotoxicity

    Anjali Bisht, Srikanth Pippadpally ... Vimlesh Kumar
    Prefoldin 5 stabilises neuronal microtubules and suppresses Tau-mediated neurotoxicity, offering a potential therapeutic target for tauopathies.