eLife Magazine

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Bird Flu: The cow udder as an influenza mixing ground

   Silke Rimaux, Robert P de Vries

   Bovine mammary tissue can support infection and replication of diverse influenza A viruses and may provide an environment in which different viral strains can co-infect cells.
2. 1. Computational and Systems Biology

   AI in Science: The 42 problem in AI-assisted research

   Giovanni Spitale, Federico Germani

   Large language models excel at producing answers, but an answer severed from its question and context may lack meaning.
3. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Developmental Biology

   

   Lifestyle, Environment and Epigenetic Inheritance: A Collection of Articles

   Edited by Wei Yan

   eLife publishes research on the mechanisms and biological significance of environmentally driven epigenetic inheritance.

4. Research Culture: From East to West – an early-career researcher’s voyage across continents

   Samuel C Eziuzor

   International early-career researchers navigating doctoral training and postdoctoral fellowships face compounding structural precarity at every stage but also accumulate a distinctive professional toolkit that institutions on both sides are poorly equipped to recognise or support.
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   Episode 105: September 2026

   In this episode, we hear about the origins of our individuality, how synaesthetes' pupil size changes just by thinking of a colour, female chickadees expanding the spectrum of cognitive abilities through non-monogamy, urban wildlife, and the switch to DNA organisation that accompanies cancer.
   
6. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Computational and Systems Biology

   Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences

   Jacob L Fine, Finn Creeggan ... Adam MR Groh

   Theory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets.
7. 1. Genetics and Genomics

   Environmental Learning: How experience shapes individuality

   Bassem A Hassan

   Behavioural diversity across fruit flies changes with individual learning, even when genetic, past and momentary environmental factors are held constant.

8. Point of View: Scientific writing is not a murder mystery

   Charlotte A Dodson

   What murder mysteries can tell us about how not to write a scientific article.
9. 1. Neuroscience

   Visual Categorization: How monkeys carve up the visual world

   Binxu Wang

   Monkeys generalize many visual categorization rules, such as animate versus inanimate, but fail on culturally defined ones, placing their behavior closer to networks trained on images alone than to humans.
10. 1. Cell Biology

    Stress: How to give cells an identity crisis

    Paige Dillon, Julie Hollien

    The transcription factor CHOP helps cells switch from an emergency stress response to a chronic one, where cells survive but lose some of the functions that define their identity.