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. Cancer Biology

    A chronic signaling TGFb zebrafish reporter identifies immune response in melanoma

    Haley R Noonan, Alexandra M Thornock ... Leonard I Zon
    An in vivo reporter of TGFb signaling in zebrafish reveals that melanoma cells undergoing chronic TGFb signaling up-regulate extracellular matrix genes, down-regulate IFN, and are preferentially phagocytosed by macrophages compared to non-TGFb responsive melanoma cells.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Identification and characterization of intermediate states in mammalian neural crest cell epithelial to mesenchymal transition and delamination

    Ruonan Zhao, Emma L Moore ... Paul A Trainor
    Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a continuous process, in which the transition or intermediate states can be molecularly and spatially defined, shedding new light on development and disease EMT.
    1. Neuroscience

    Distance and grid-like codes support the navigation of abstract social space in the human brain

    Zilu Liang, Simeng Wu ... Chao Liu
    New data provides partial evidence that abstract social knowledge adopts a similar encoding scheme as spatial cognitive maps in the human brain.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Loss of ninein interferes with osteoclast formation and causes premature ossification

    Thierry Gilbert, Camille Gorlt ... Andreas Merdes
    It is shown that the absence of the centrosome protein ninein provokes premature ossification during mouse development, due to a defect in the fusion of precursor cells into syncytial osteoclasts.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Sex-biased regulatory changes in the placenta of native highlanders contribute to adaptive fetal development

    Tian Yue, Yongbo Guo ... Bing Su
    Comparative transcriptome analyses of human placenta reveal regulatory divergence between native highlanders and lowland immigrants living at high altitude, and a sex-biased pattern of genetic adaptation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Brain age has limited utility as a biomarker for capturing fluid cognition in older individuals

    Alina Tetereva, Narun Pat
    When used to capture fluid cognition, Brain Age likely fails to add substantially more information over and above chronological age and could miss up to around one-third of the variation.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Base editing strategies to convert CAG to CAA diminish the disease-causing mutation in Huntington’s disease

    Doo Eun Choi, Jun Wan Shin ... Jong-Min Lee
    Uninterrupted CAG repeat length determines onset age in Huntington's disease, and therefore, base editing strategies to generate CAA interruption offer new therapeutic opportunities as they diminish the disease-causing mutation.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A microRNA that controls the emergence of embryonic movement

    Jonathan AC Menzies, André Maia Chagas ... Claudio R Alonso
    A novel behavioural pipeline enables the quantitative analysis of the onset of movement in Drosophila embryos revealing that a microRNA modulates this process through regulatory effects in the sensory system.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    RAPSYN-mediated neddylation of BCR-ABL alternatively determines the fate of Philadelphia chromosome-positive leukemia

    Mengya Zhao, Beiying Dai ... Yijun Chen
    Scaffolding protein RAPSYN can exert its NEDD8 E3 ligase activity to neddylate and stabilize oncogenic BCR-ABL by competing proteasomal degradation in Ph+ leukemia.