eLife Magazine

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Actin Filaments: Building bundles by the numbers

   Christian Vanhille-Campos, Anđela Šarić

   The size and shape of cytoskeletal bundles, essential regulators of cell function, emerge from collective filament assembly rather than precise size-control mechanisms.
2. 1. Neuroscience

   Hippocampal Network: Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

   Justin Riddle

   Stimulating brain areas connected to the hippocampus may improve memory function in humans.
3. 1. Neuroscience

   Verbal Memory: Language acquisition in newborns

   Marcela Peña

   The ability of newborns to distinguish between different voices helps them to establish verbal memories from a very early age.
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   Episode 103: May 2026

   In this episode, we hear about the potential of synthetic gene circuits to target cancer, a zebrafish model of cerebral small vessel disease, evidence that psilocybin may alleviate depression, a new technique to make flu vaccines more effective, and why crabs walk sideways.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Visual Perception: Insights into perceptual learning

   Zhong-Lin Lu

   A form of short-term memory called serial dependence can predict how effectively perceptual learning transfers to novel visual locations.
6. 1. Neuroscience

   Neuroendocrinology: Surging towards a better understanding of ovulation

   Lillian Rose, Alexander S Kauffman

   The ability to record the real-time activity of specialized neurons in the brains of female mice is providing new insights into the hormonal control of ovulation.
7. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Auditory Hair Cells: Examining the role of lipids in hearing

   Yein Christina Park, Angela Ballesteros

   The asymmetry of lipid membranes is tightly regulated in eukaryotic cells, and auditory hair cells are no exception.
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   Point of View: Science under threat around the world

   Humberto J Debat

   Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to such crises?
9. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

   Lipid Transport: How membranes shape up for lipid transfer

   Takashi Hirashima, Toshiya Endo

   The extraction of a phospholipid called phosphatidic acid from the mitochondrial outer membrane is regulated by the curvature of this membrane.
10. 1. Neuroscience

    Vestibular Hair Cells: Are kinocilia motile?

    Ruth Anne Eatock, Marina Kabirova

    Gene expression patterns in the inner ear put an old question about structures called kinocilia back in motion.