Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Neuroscience

    Evaluating hippocampal replay without a ground truth

    Masahiro Takigawa, Marta Huelin Gorriz ... Daniel Bendor
    A novel tool enables cross-checking the quality of replay events and evaluating the effectiveness of a given replay detection method in the absence of a ground truth.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    TPR is required for cytoplasmic chromatin fragment formation during senescence

    Bethany M Bartlett, Yatendra Kumar ... Wendy A Bickmore
    Evidence is provided suggesting that heterochromatin re-organisation during cell senescence can compromise the structural integrity of the nucleus, leading to activation of an inflammatory process.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Basement membranes are crucial for proper olfactory placode shape, position and boundary with the brain, and for olfactory axon development

    Pénélope Tignard, Karen Pottin ... Marie Anne Breau
    Laminin gamma1-dependent basement membranes are required for multiple aspects of olfactory system development in zebrafish, including the maintenance of placode tissue shape and the growth of the olfactory axons.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Long non-coding RNA Malat1 fine-tunes bone homeostasis and repair by orchestrating cellular crosstalk and β-catenin-OPG/Jagged1 pathway

    Yongli Qin, Jumpei Shirakawa ... Baohong Zhao
    Malat1 is a key skeletal regulator, unveiling how lncRNAs integrate cellular crosstalk and molecular networks to regulate bone remodeling and regeneration, establishing a novel paradigm in tissue homeostasis and repair.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Virus adaptation to heparan sulfate comes with capsid stability tradeoff

    Han Kang Tee, Simon Crouzet ... Caroline Tapparel
    1. Cell Biology

    Impairment of lipid homeostasis causes lysosomal accumulation of endogenous protein aggregates through ESCRT disruption

    John Yong, Jacqueline E Villalta ... Calvin H Jan
    Genome-wide CRISPRi screens and proteome profiling of lysosomes link lipid dysregulation to ESCRT disruption and proteostasis defect.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Medicine

    Clinical phenotypes in acute and chronic infarction explained through human ventricular electromechanical modelling and simulations

    Xin Zhou, Zhinuo Jenny Wang ... Blanca Rodriguez
    Human-based electromechanical simulations reveal electrocardiogram biomarkers are better indicators of pro-arrhythmic substrate after myocardial infarction than ejection fraction.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Base editing of Ptbp1 in neurons alleviates symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease

    Desiree Böck, Maria Wilhelm ... Gerald Schwank
    Downregulation of PTBP1 in neurons, but not astrocytes, alleviates motor symptoms in a Parkinson’s disease mouse model by inducing dopaminergic marker expression in striatal neurons and increasing striatal dopamine levels.
    1. Neuroscience

    The emergence of visual category representations in infants’ brains

    Xiaoqian Yan, Sarah Shi Tung ... Kalanit Grill-Spector
    Scalp electroencephalography combined with a frequency tagging method reveals that distinct responses to daily categories emerge at different ages in infants.
    1. Cell Biology

    Genome concentration limits cell growth and modulates proteome composition in Escherichia coli

    Jarno Mäkelä, Alexandros Papagiannakis ... Christine Jacobs-Wagner
    Genome dilution limits cell growth by modulating the activities, rather than the concentrations, of RNA polymerases and ribosomes, and is accompanied by changes in proteome composition.