Research Advances

A Research Advance is a short article that allows either the authors of an eLife paper or other researchers to publish new results that build on the original research paper in an important way.

Latest articles

    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure-guided mutagenesis of OSCAs reveals differential activation to mechanical stimuli

    Sebastian Jojoa-Cruz, Adrienne E Dubin ... Andrew B Ward
    Structural comparison and electrophysiology of OSCA channels shed light on potential structural features influencing response to poke stimulus.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sensorimotor mechanisms selective to numerosity derived from individual differences

    Giovanni Anobile, Irene Petrizzo ... Guido Marco Cicchini
    Evidence for a selective sensorimotor brain mechanism responsible for translating sensory numerical information into the number of actions in a sequence.
    1. Neuroscience

    TEAD1 is crucial for developmental myelination, Remak bundles, and functional regeneration of peripheral nerves

    Matthew Grove, Hyukmin Kim ... Young-Jin Son
    TEAD1 is a major partner transcription factor of YAP/TAZ crucial for developmental myelination and remyelination of peripheral nerves.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Hippo kinase cascade regulates a contractile cell behavior and cell density in a close unicellular relative of animals

    Jonathan E Phillips, Duojia Pan
    Genetic analysis of Hippo pathway kinases in a close unicellular relative of animals suggests an ancestral role of this ancient pathway in regulating cytoskeletal dynamics and density of multicellular aggregates.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multiple objects evoke fluctuating responses in several regions of the visual pathway

    Meredith N Schmehl, Valeria C Caruso ... Jennifer M Groh
    Neural fluctuations in multiple areas along the visual cortical hierarchy could allow the brain to represent distinct co-occurring visual stimuli.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    The genomic landscape of transposable elements in yeast hybrids is shaped by structural variation and genotype-specific modulation of transposition rate

    Mathieu Hénault, Souhir Marsit ... Christian R Landry
    The gain of transposable elements in yeast hybrids does not scale with genetic divergence levels and is most impacted by structural variations and multiple aspects of individual hybrid genetic backgrounds.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    DNA methylation-environment interactions in the human genome

    Rachel A Johnston, Katherine A Aracena ... Jenny Tung
    A massively parallel reporter assay, mSTARR-seq, reveals widespread DNA methylation-environment interactions across the genome, prioritizing CpG sites identified in epigenome-wide association studies that may be most relevant to biological embedding.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Region of Attainable Redaction, an extension of Ellipse of Insignificance analysis for gauging impacts of data redaction in dichotomous outcome trials

    David Robert Grimes
    Region of Attainable Redaction analysis allows scientists to estimate the potential impacts of redaction in biomedical science, helping to uncover potentially spurious or non-robust results.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hippocampome.org 2.0 is a knowledge base enabling data-driven spiking neural network simulations of rodent hippocampal circuits

    Diek W Wheeler, Jeffrey D Kopsick ... Giorgio A Ascoli
    Hippocampome.org v1.0, a foundational classification system of hippocampal neuron types, has evolved into 2.0, which recenters the focus on new functionality to build real-scale, biologically detailed, data-driven computational simulations.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Core PCP mutations affect short-time mechanical properties but not tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila pupal wing

    Romina Piscitello-Gómez, Franz S Gruber ... Suzanne Eaton
    Quantitative analysis of cell dynamics over a range of timescales reveals that core PCP is not required to organize large-scale tissue flows but does affect short timescale mechanics.