Browse our latest Magazine content

Page 51 of 185
  1. Point of View: Promoting constructive feedback on preprints with the FAST principles

    Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
    Ensuring that public feedback on preprints is focused, appropriate, specific and transparent (or FAST) will help to develop a thriving culture for reviewing and commenting on preprints.
    1. Neuroscience

    Perception: Where functional MRI stops, metabolism starts

    Polytimi Frangou, William T Clarke
    Combining techniques that track blood oxygenation and biochemicals during neuronal activity reveals how the brain computes perceived and unperceived stimuli.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the conformational diversity of proteins

    Avner Schlessinger, Massimiliano Bonomi
    An artificial intelligence-based method can predict distinct conformational states of membrane transporters and receptors.
    Version of Record
    Insight
  2. Silhouette of a scientist walking to the right

    Career Change: When dreams don’t come true

    Adna Dumitrescu
    As she closes the door on her time in academia, a neuroscientist faces unexpected grief.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Viruses: A frameshift in time

    Martina M Yordanova, Pavel V Baranov
    The efficiency with which ribosomes shift reading frames when decoding viral RNA may change over the course of an infection.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Sexual Conflict: Evolving new ways to secure a mate

    Xiaodan Lin, Dong Ren
    Fossils shed light on mating strategies in scorpionflies.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Plant Biology

    The Natural History of Model Organisms: The biology of C. richardii as a tool to understand plant evolution

    Sylvia P Kinosian, Paul G Wolf
    The natural history of the model fern Ceratopteris richardii provides opportunities for unique studies and makes it an important system to include in comparative work.
    1. Cell Biology

    Cytoskeleton: Capturing intermediate filament networks

    Pierre A Coulombe
    Mapping intermediate filaments in three dimensions reveals that the organization of these filaments differs across cell types.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Medicine

    Point of View: Why both sides of the gender equation matter

    Lindy E Barrett
    It is important that any strategy that seeks to move towards gender parity in science and medicine includes actions to address male advantage and overrepresentation as well as female disadvantage and underrepresentation.
    1. Medicine
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    3. Epidemiology and Global Health
    4. Immunology and Inflammation
    Covid-19. Translational and Clinical Research

    Infectious Diseases: A Collection of Translational and Clinical Research Articles

    Edited by Bavesh Kana et al.
    eLife has published articles on a wide range of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, influenza, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria and typhoid fever.