Calls for papers

This cross-journal Collection welcomes manuscripts covering a broad spectrum of research related to phages, including fundamental studies on phage biology and ecology, implications of phage-bacteria interactions, biotechnological applications, as well as pre-clinical and clinical development of phage-based therapies.

This Collection aims to bring together research from various domains related to neurodegenerative conditions, encompassing novel insights into disease pathophysiology, diagnostics, therapeutic developments, and care strategies. We welcome the submission of all papers relevant to advances in neurodegenerative disease.

This cross-journal Collection brings together research at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, neuromorphic hardware, and robotics with a focus on how insights from brain function can inspire the design of more adaptive, efficient, and intelligent systems. We welcome submissions that explore neurobiologically-inspired models, architectures, and learning algorithms that have the potential to enhance embodied AI and robotic systems.

Topics of interest include research articles investigating the functional impact and molecular mechanism of repetitive elements in the genome, methods to analyze long-read sequencing data and approaches to annotate repetitive sequences.

With this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions of articles that use modern approaches to advance the understanding in species redistributions under global climate change.

This collection welcomes submissions based on studying preclinical models, as well as population-wide and clinical studies. Studies that advance our understanding of mechanisms behind healthy aging are also welcomed. Clinical research of interest will include epidemiological studies, observational studies, longitudinal cohort studies, systematic reviews and clinical trials.

This collection welcomes submissions investigating mechanisms of TAD formation and maintenance, chromatin looping and gene regulation, impact of 3D genome on transcriptional landscapes and high-throughput methods for studying genome organisation.

In this joint collection between Communications Biology, Nature Communications, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, and Scientific Reports, we invite submissions containing new methods for the prediction of structure of macromolecules such as proteins, peptides and RNA.

In this cross-journal Collection, we invite research into the complex signalling pathways of innate immunity, emphasising the activation and regulation of pattern recognition receptors in response to microbial and endogenous triggers.

With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts that highlight innovative methods for visualising and detecting RNA molecules and modifications in vivo, and studies that use these tools to uncover RNA-based regulatory mechanisms.