Highlights

  • Ben Barres Spotlight Awards

    Researchers from underrepresented backgrounds, or from countries with limited funding to support their research, career and community, are encouraged to apply.

    Inside eLife
  • Follow the leader

    Study reveals a leader-follower relation between the two flagella responsible for moving the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

    Da Wei, Greta Quaranta ... Daniel SW Tam
    Research Article
  • Iron metabolism and cancer

    MEMO1 is an iron-binding protein that modulates iron homeostasis in cancer cells.

    Natalia Dolgova, Eva-Maria E Uhlemann ... Oleg Y Dmitriev
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Latest research

    1. Neuroscience

    Emergence of brain-like mirror-symmetric viewpoint tuning in convolutional neural networks

    Amirhossein Farzmahdi, Wilbert Zarco ... Tal Golan
    Mirror-symmetric view tuning in the macaque AL face patch can be explained by the spatial pooling of learned reflection-equivariant representations.
    1. Medicine
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Neuroinfectiology of an atypical anthrax-causing pathogen in wild chimpanzees

    Tobias Gräßle, Carsten Jäger ... Markus Morawski
    1. Neuroscience

    The neural and physiological substrates of real-world attention change across development.

    Marta Perapoch Amadó, Emily Greenwood ... Sam V. Wass
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Neutralizing gut-derived lipopolysaccharide as a novel therapeutic strategy for severe leptospirosis

    Xufeng Xie, Xi Chen ... Yongguo Cao
    Gut dysbiosis is involved in severe leptospirosis that is related to translocated microbiota-derived lipopolysaccharide.
    1. Developmental Biology

    SMAD4 promotes somatic-germline contact during murine oocyte growth

    Sofia Granados-Aparici, Qin Yang, Hugh J Clarke
    Depletion of the TGFβ signal-transducer, SMAD4, in granulosa cells of growing follicles reduces the number of filopodia, termed transzonal projections, that stably attach to and mediate communication with the oocyte.
    1. Neuroscience

    Genetically defined nucleus incertus neurons differ in connectivity and function

    Emma D Spikol, Ji Cheng ... Marnie E Halpern
    Transgenic zebrafish generated by targeted genomic integration distinguish neuronal subtypes in the nucleus incertus that differ in their connections and functional properties.