Unnur A Valdimarsdóttir, Donghao Lu ... Kári Stefánsson
A large-scale, sibling-based analysis of the Icelandic population spanning two centuries demonstrates an increase in maternal mortality rates after child loss on both sides of a major demographic transition.
Guidelines governing research into embryos need to be updated in a way that reflects the moral status of synthetic human entities generated using the methods of synthetic biology.
Hilda Björk Daníelsdóttir, Thor Aspelund ... Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir
Cumulative exposure to adverse childhood experiences is associated with lower adult resilience among women in a dose-dependent manner, independent of adult socioeconomic factors and social support, indicating that adult female resilience is consolidated in early life.
A new eLife Ethics Committee will advise and develop policy focused on establishing and maintaining the highest standards of research and publication practices across the scope of the journal.
Guillermo Moya-Alvarado, Reynaldo Tiburcio-Felix ... Francisca C Bronfman
BDNF axonal signaling regulates protein synthesis in neuronal cell bodies leading to dendritic arborization through dynein-dependent transport of signaling endosomes.
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.
eLife collaborated with several journal publishers and researchers to compare the citation distributions that underpin impact factor calculations in various journals.
