eLife Science Digests

Cutting jargon and putting research in context, digests showcase some of the latest articles published in eLife.

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  1. Growing old together

    A machine learning model draws links between the biological age of baboons and their gut microbiome.

  2. What shapes kindness?

    People appear to have stable individual differences in their tendency to perceive neediness or deservingness of others, which in turn shapes their willingness to help others.

  3. Refining detection

    Three key modifications to a common laboratory approach allow scientists to better assess infection levels in Chagas disease.

  4. Understanding insulitis

    Different cell-type compositions in the areas surrounding the pancreatic islets may have a role in insulitis, a key process in type 1 diabetes.

  5. How the brain tunes in

    Specialized cells that help us distinguish between sounds in a noisy environment rely on both activating and repressing signals to process inputs fully.

  6. A license to kill

    Bacteria belonging to the Wolbachia family employ distinct genes to kill the male offspring of different insect species.

  7. Driving idiopathic pulmonary hypertension

    In the walls of certain lung arteries, interactions between two types of cells may contribute to the progression of a dangerous disease.

  8. Mending injured livers

    A protein called clusterin is associated with liver recovery after injury and may suggest new therapies.
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