A foundation for change: eLife reports on progress in 2013
eLife celebrates its first full year in publishing with the release of its 2013 Annual Report. The report emphasises eLife's achievements from last year and points towards how the unique initiative will continue to expand on successes in technology innovation and challenge the status quo.
Moving research forward: eLife announces the Research Advance
eLife has introduced an innovative new type of article – the Research Advance – that invites the authors of any eLife paper to present significant additions to their original research.
eLife's latest podcast: how photographs of faces can help diagnosis of rare disorders
In the latest episode of the eLife podcast, hear about using photographs to diagnose rare genetic disorders, an unexpected benefit of exercise, hybridizing fish species, the mysteries of the MECP2 gene, and the risks and benefits of using gene drives to alter wild populations.
Discovery drivers: eLife interviews early-stage researchers
Sheer curiosity is behind so many great stories in science. eLife explores what drives individuals involved in research.
Hear about the neuroscience of chewing in eLife's latest podcast
The latest episode of the eLife podcast - produced for eLife by The Naked Scientists - includes the neuroscience of chewing, skin cancer, African sleeping sickness and an ancient protein complex called TSET.
eLife recognises early-career researchers
The academic editors of eLife, the open-access journal for the very best in life science and biomedical research, have selected five articles to represent the breadth, quality, and importance of work published by the journal.
Picking up speed: How eLife is getting the most promising results out faster
eLife now offers its authors the option to publish accepted papers on the eLife website just a few days after acceptance by the journal - reducing the time from acceptance to the public release of important new research from around a month to just a few days.
Hear about the anti-aphrodisiac in eLife's latest podcast
The latest episode of the eLife podcast - produced for eLife by The Naked Scientists - features the mating habits of flies, radiation resistance in bacteria, how insects learned to smell, and the Hawaiian bobtail squid.
Nobel Prize for eLife Editor-in-Chief
eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, is delighted to congratulate its Editor-in-Chief Randy Schekman on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof for their “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.
Website for new open-access journal, eLife has now launched
eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website.