eLife Magazine

Latest articles

1. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physiology

   Mechanosensory Physiology: Lymphatic vessels under pressure

   Asser F Bedair, Osama F Harraz

   Lymphatic vessels beat faster as they fill with fluid through a chain of calcium signaling, though the first pressure sensor remains a mystery.
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Science Forum: The new paradox of women’s health research

   Ursula Debarnot, Alexandre Fouré

   Women’s health research will advance when methodological rigor is matched to the question being asked, so that stronger standards improve evidence without inadvertently making studies involving women harder to conduct.
3. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Physiology

   Steroid Signaling: A hormonal message for a longer life

   Kyle Feola, Peter M Douglas

   The steroid hormone dafachronic acid may carry the effects of reduced mTOR activity between tissues to coordinate metabolism and longevity across the body.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

7. 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.
   
9. 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.
10. 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.