Highlights

  • ITP signaling and homeostasis

    The ion transport peptide (ITP) signaling system relies on a guanylate cyclase receptor to maintain homeostasis in Drosophila.

    Jayati Gera, Marishia Agard ... Meet Zandawala
    Research Article
  • Modelling archaeal membranes

    Archaea use single-headed and double-headed lipids to construct cell membranes that are both flexible and capable of withstanding extreme environments.

    Miguel Amaral, Felix Frey ... Anđela Šarić
    Research Article
  • Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    The articles in this focus issue discuss progress towards a better understanding of memory in the innate immune system, and efforts to develop new vaccines and therapeutics based on “trained immunity”.

    Collection
  • How we understand each other

    eLife author Joe Barnby answers questions about a study that explored how humans navigate social interactions.

    Inside eLife
  • No change for astroctyes

    Genetically removing the RNA-binding protein PTBP1 from astrocytes does not convert them into neurons, contrary to previous claims.

    Min Zhang, Naoto Kubota ... Sika Zheng
    Research Article
  • Drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Mutations in a water channel called TbAQP2 make the parasite that causes sleeping sickness resistant to drugs. Image: Jessica Eggers (CC BY 4.0).

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone N Weyand
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Latest research

    1. Neuroscience

    Executive Resources Shape the Impact of Language Predictability Across the Adult Lifespan

    Merle Schuckart, Sandra Martin ... Jonas Obleser
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Functional analysis across model systems implicates ribosomal proteins in growth and proliferation defects associated with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

    Tanja Nielsen, Anaïs Kervadec ... Alexandre R Colas
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Endoscopic liquid biopsies of gastric fluid in a large patient cohort reveal DNA content as a candidate tumor biomarker in gastric cancer

    Francine Carla Cadoná, Thais F Bartelli ... Emmanuel Dias-Neto
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Phenylhydrazone-based Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis Regulator Compounds with Enhanced Biological Activity

    Gabriel M Kline, Lisa Boinon ... R Luke Wiseman
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    1. Developmental Biology

    E(spl)m4 Directly Antagonizes Traf4 to Inhibit JNK Signaling in Drosophila

    Katrin Strobel, Jennifer Falconi ... Alexandre Djiane
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    1. Medicine

    Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited?

    Adrian Barnett
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Dark matter of an orchid: metagenome of the microbiome associated with the rhizosphere of Dactylorhiza traunsteineri

    Gabriel A Vignolle, Leopold Zehetner ... Julien Charest
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fish CDK2 recruits Dtx4 to degrade TBK1 through ubiquitination in the antiviral response

    Long-Feng Lu, Can Zhang ... Shun Li
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing