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. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci

    Michele Marconcini, Steeve Cruchet ... Richard Benton
    Selection of animal populations and of cultured cells provides complementary datasets to identify candidate genes involved in conferring resistance to a natural insecticide.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Nerve injury-induced protein 2 preserves lysosomal membrane integrity to suppress ferroptosis

    Jin Zhang, Miranda Bustamante ... Xinbin Chen
    Revealing a role for NINJ2 in maintaining lysosomal homeostasis and preventing ferroptosis, laying the foundation for the development of cancer therapeutics targeting NINJ2.
    1. Neuroscience

    PRRT2 as an auxiliary regulator of Nav channel slow inactivation

    Bin Lu, Qi-Wu Xu ... Zhi-Qi Xiong
    PRRT2 is identified as a conserved regulator of sodium channel slow inactivation that helps protect the neurons from excessive excitability.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    In vitro sexual dimorphism establishment in schistosomes

    Rémi Pichon, Magda E Lotkowska ... Gabriel Rinaldi
    Establishment of sexually dimorphic schistosomes entirely in vitro from mechanically transformed cercariae paves the way for uncovering the cellular and molecular cues underlying development, providing potential targets for novel control strategies.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    The genetic control of rapid genome content divergence in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Christopher J Fiscus, Daniel Koenig
    Repeat variation in wild Arabidopsis thaliana arises from centromere-proximal sequence changes and rare variants in DNA replication, repair, and methylation genes, consistent with purifying selection constraining genome expansion.
    1. Cell Biology

    Nim1-related kinases regulate septin organization and cytokinesis by modulating Hof1 at the cell division site

    Bindu Bhojappa, Anubhav Dhar ... Saravanan Palani
    Septin-associated kinases functions in an adaptable regulatory network with overlapping functions to coordinate septin organization with actomyosin ring machinery to ensure robust cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Serum, cell-free, HPV-human DNA junction detection and HPV typing for predicting and monitoring cervical cancer recurrence

    Anne R Van Arsdale, Olga Meshcheryakova ... Jack Lenz
    HPV-human DNA junction detection in serum cell-free DNA unambiguously identifies tumor genetic-signatures of integrated viral DNA from HPV-induced cancers and could be useful for recurrence prediction and monitoring residual disease.
    1. Ecology

    Small mammalian herbivores at moderate densities facilitate livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands

    Zhiwei Zhong, Bingbo Ni ... Zhibin Zhang
    At moderate densities, small mammalian herbivores can enhance livestock weight gains by suppressing toxic plants and improving both the abundance and nutritional quality of palatable forage in rangelands.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Primordial cardiomyocytes orchestrate myocardial morphogenesis and vascularization but are dispensable for regeneration

    Jisheng Sun, Lu Chen, Jinhu Wang
    Primordial cardiomyocytes play an essential role in myocardial morphogenesis and coronary vascularization, but not in adult zebrafish heart regeneration.
    1. Cell Biology

    Cellular modifiers of TDP-43 phase transition and cytoplasmic aggregation

    Natalie Chin, Qi Zhang ... Yihong Ye
    A genome-wide RNA interference screen identified cellular processes that modulate the phase separation of a TDP-43 mutant, providing a framework for dissecting the link between its phase behavior and disease-associated aggregation.