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. Computational and Systems Biology

    Dynamical mechanisms of growth-feedback effects on adaptive gene circuits

    Ling-Wei Kong, Wenjia Shi ... Ying-Cheng Lai
    Systematic simulations reveal how growth feedback undermines the stability of adaptive gene circuits in a topology-dependent manner.
    1. Neuroscience

    A ventral hippocampal-lateral septum pathway regulates social novelty preference

    Maha Rashid, Sarah Thomas ... Malavika Murugan
    Projection-specific optogenetic and chemogenetic experiments reveal a hippocampal-lateral septal pathway that potentially acts via the ventral tegmental area to regulate social novelty preference behaviors.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Targeting SLC7A11-mediated cysteine metabolism for the treatment of trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive breast cancer

    Yijia Hua, Ningjun Duan ... Yongmei Yin
    Targeting cysteine metabolism could provide novel strategies for treating trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive breast cancer.
    1. Neuroscience

    The role of GABA in semantic memory and its neuroplasticity

    JeYoung Jung, Steve Williams, Matthew A Lambon Ralph
    GABAergic inhibition in the anterior temporal lobe shapes semantic memory and its neuroplasticity through a non-linear relationship, revealing a neurochemical basis for individual differences.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Pathway activation model for personalized prediction of drug synergy

    Quang Thinh Trac, Yue Huang ... Trung Nghia Vu
    Drug synergy Interaction Prediction improves personalized drug synergy prediction by utilizing drug-specific pathway activation scores to predict personalized drug synergy and reveals mechanistic pathways underlying synergistic effects.
    1. Cell Biology

    HNF4α-TET2-FBP1 axis contributes to gluconeogenesis and type 2 diabetes

    Hongchen Li, Xinchao Zhang ... Yanping Xu
    Functional analyses reveal the HNF4α-TET2-FBP1 axis as a critical regulator of gluconeogenesis, type 2 diabetes (T2D) progression, and metformin’s therapeutic effects, which proposes TET2 as a promising therapeutic target for T2D.
    1. Neuroscience

    Chemogenetic stimulation of phrenic motor output and diaphragm activity

    Ethan S Benevides, Prajwal P Thakre ... David D Fuller
    DREADD-mediated activation of phrenic motor output produces sustained increases in diaphragm activity and tidal volume, highlighting a potential strategy to restore breathing in clinical conditions associated with impaired diaphragm activation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Otoacoustic emissions but not behavioral measurements predict cochlear nerve frequency tuning in an avian vocal communication specialist

    Diana M Karosas, Leslie Gonzales ... Kenneth S Henry
    Otoacoustic emissions recorded noninvasively from the ear canal accurately predict cochlear frequency tuning in an avian species, in contrast to previously tested classical behavioral methods.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Daptomycin forms a stable complex with phosphatidylglycerol for selective uptake to bacterial membrane

    Pragyansree Machhua, Vignesh Gopalakrishnan Unnithan ... Zhihong Guo
    The drug-phospholipid interaction is fully elucidated at molecular level as an important part of the mode of action of daptomycin and the mechanism of its resistance in bacterial pathogens.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Ferroptosis-related genes mediate tumor microenvironment and prognosis in triple-negative breast cancer via integrated RNA-seq analysis

    Xuantong Gong, Lishuang Gu ... Yong Wang
    Integrated single-cell RNA-seq analysis identifies ferroptosis-driven tumor microenvironment features, enabling a prognostic risk model and therapeutic targets to advance precision medicine for triple-negative breast cancer.