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In recognition that evolutionary theory is critical for understanding modern human health, eLife is publishing a special issue on evolutionary medicine to showcase recent research in this growing and increasingly interdisciplinary field.

The Reproducibility for Everyone initiative aims to provide researchers at all career stages and across many disciplines with training in reproducible research practices via customizable workshop material.

The canonical hippocampal NMDA memory receptor also controls the release of the transmitter glutamate and the growth factor BDNF.

Ornithischians, one of the three major groups of dinosaurs, developed a unique mechanism to ensure airflow in the lungs.

Longer poly(A) tails improve translation in early development, but not in mature cells that have higher levels of the protein PABPC.

Disillusioned with conducting chemistry experiments in a basement, a new graduate student decides instead to dedicate her PhD to improving the culture of her research environment.

Analysing changes in hair pigmentation may lead to a better understanding of the impacts of ‘life events’ on human biology and aging.

Computer visualization techniques developed for video games can be repurposed to enable viewers to explore cells and their environment in three dimensions.

eLife’s Executable Research Article lets authors include live code, data and interactive figures in their published paper.