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. 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.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    SCC3 is an axial element essential for homologous chromosome pairing and synapsis

    Yangzi Zhao, Lijun Ren ... Zhukuan Cheng
    SCC3 not only functions as a member of cohesin complex but also participates in homologous pairing and synapsis during rice meiosis.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    The delayed kinetics of Myddosome formation explains why amyloid-beta aggregates trigger Toll-like receptor 4 less efficiently than lipopolysaccharide

    Bing Li, Prasanna Suresh ... David Klenerman
    Amyloid-beta aggregates and lipopolysaccharide differ in their kinetics of Myddosome formation and size of Myddosome formed, providing an explanation for the less efficient triggering of TLR4 observed with aggregates.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Quantifying gliding forces of filamentous cyanobacteria by self-buckling

    Maximilian Kurjahn, Antaran Deka ... Stefan Karpitschka
    The self-buckling behavior of filamentous cyanobacteria allowed a quantification of their propulsion forces, indicating that adhesion plays an important role in gliding motility.