Childhood obesity remains a pressing global health challenge, yet the impact of dynamic adiposity changes during active developmental window retains poorly understood. Leveraging longitudinal data ...

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Specialized magnetic beads that bind target proteins to a cryogenic electron microscopy grid make it possible to study the structure of protein complexes from dilute samples.

Cryo-EM structures of 70S•RelA ribosome complexes reveal how cognate deacyl-tRNA activates RelA.

Brain organoids, also known as brain spheroids, are three-dimensional cultures of neural cells derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) that mimic the brain’s organization, development, and activity ...

Neuroscientist Roya Huang tells us about their experience of publishing in the eLife Model. Roya Huang is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of ...

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Add a comment + Open annotations. The current annotation count on this page is being calculated. Female chickadees living in monogamous mating systems will proactively seek out males that have better ...

eLife has changed its editorial process to eliminate accept/reject decisions after peer review and instead provide readers with richer and more nuanced assessments of articles. eLife changed its ...

Add a comment + Open annotations. The current annotation count on this page is being calculated. People with certain blood types are more likely to have blood clots or bleeding conditions, kidney ...

Noticeable noises in the background, such as a phone ringing, shift our attention by activating the same circuit of nerves that we use when focusing on specific sounds. When walking into a busy ...

Crystal structures of γ-protocadherin cell-cell recognition dimers reveal the determinants of clustered protocadherin homophilic specificity and cis interaction region structures alongside mutagenesis ...