Medicine

Medicine

eLife reviews translational, clinical and health policy research in all areas of medicine. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Latest articles

    1. Medicine
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    PDL-1+ Neutrophils mediate susceptibility during endotoxemia in Metabolically Dysfunctional-Associated Fatty Liver Disease

    Cleyson da Cruz Oliveira Barros, Alexandre Kanashiro ... Fernando Queiroz Cunha
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Impaired Adaptive Learning in Chronic Pain Contributes to Apathy

    Xinyuan Yan, Crina M Peterson ... David P Darrow
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Medicine

    Direct MRI of Collagen

    Jason Daniel van Schoor, Markus Weiger ... Klaas Paul Pruessmann
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Medicine

    Three components of glucose dynamics – mean, variance, and autocorrelation – are independently associated with coronary plaque vulnerability

    Hikaru Sugimoto, Ken-ichi Hironaka ... Shinya Kuroda
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Medicine

    Translational reading frame determines the pathogenicity of C-terminal frameshift deletions in MeCP2: an alternative therapeutic approach

    Jacky Guy, Elena Hein ... Adrian Bird
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Dual-modal metabolic analysis reveals hypothermia-reversible uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in neonatal brain hypoxia-ischemia

    Naidi Sun, Yu-Yo Sun ... Song Hu
    Post‑HI oxidative‑phosphorylation uncoupling drives secondary energy failure in neonatal brains, and preventing the post‑HI CMRO2 surge is a key mechanism underlying hypothermia’s neuroprotection.
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    GPR30 in spinal cholecystokinin-positive neurons modulates neuropathic pain

    Qing Chen, Hui Wu ... Xinzhong Chen
    A combination of viral strategies, electrophysiological methods, and behavioral tests reveals how GPR30 in spinal CCK+ neurons modulates neuropathic pain.
    1. Medicine

    Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited?

    Adrian Barnett
    Some requests by reviewers to cite their own publications are coercive and can unnecessarily delay indexation and publication.
    1. Medicine
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Global molecular landscape of early MASLD progression in obesity

    Qing Zhao, William De Nardo ... Philipp Kaldis
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Medicine

    Addressing cultural and knowledge barriers to enable preclinical sex inclusive research

    Brianna N Gaskill, Benjamin Phillips ... Natasha A Karp
    Targeted education corrects key misconceptions and identifies methods to influence intent to use sex-inclusive designs in in vivo studies.
Load more

Highlights

    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Explore the latest COVID-19 research

    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.
    1. Medicine

    Meet our new Senior Editors in Medicine

    1. Medicine
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health
    virus

    We’ve extended the deadline for our call for papers on the impact of COVID-19 on cancer

Senior editors

  1. Balram Bhargava
    Indian Council of Medical Research, India
  2. Diane M Harper
    University of Michigan, United States
  3. Joshua T Schiffer
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
  4. See more editors