title: Advancing research.
abstract: eLife has introduced a new type of article-the Research Advance-that allows the authors of an eLife paper to publish results that build on their original research paper.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7237-0797
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.forename: Randy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schekman
authors.forename: Fiona M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Watt
authors.forename: Detlef
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weigel
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D035081:Editorial Policies; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*
keywords: eLife; publishing; scientific publishing