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Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field by submitting to our Collections, carefully curated to capture trends in fast-moving fields of science and regularly associated with an open call for papers. All manuscripts in curated Collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • Nanomedicine Applied in Cancer Treatment Failure

    This cross-journal collection will consider submissions of research articles that highlight advances in nanomedicine aimed at overcoming cancer treatment failure, as well as nanotechnology used to uncover the underlying biological mechanisms of such failure.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 September 2026
    • Immune mechanisms in arthritis

      This cross-journal collection welcomes original research articles spanning basic, translational, and clinical studies that explore the immune mechanisms influencing arthritis pathogenesis.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2026
      • Host-Pathogen Interactions – Infection, Immunity and Beyond

        With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Immunology, Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports invite original research Articles investigating all aspects of the complex molecular interplay between pathogens and their human and/or animal hosts.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 July 2026
        • Muscle biology

          In this collection, the editors of Nature Metabolism, Communications Biology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports aim to highlight cutting-edge research in muscle biology.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 July 2026
          • Immune cell engineering for cancer therapy 2026

            With this Collection, a partnership between Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports, we welcome submissions of primary research papers that focus on immune cell engineering for cancer therapy. The journals are particularly interested in preclinical studies proposing new engineering strategies and therapeutic developments.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 March 2026
            • Biosensing

              With this cross-journal Collection, the editors of Communications Biology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Sensors, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports welcome the submission of primary research Articles focusing on the development of engineered biosensing devices with the potential to be applied in biomedical research and in the management of disease conditions.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 March 2026
              • Cortical-subcortical brain loops

                This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions on novel cortical-subcortical circuit mechanisms regulating sensory processing, perception and cognition.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 May 2026
                • Structural genetic variants, from detection to phenotype

                  This cross-journal Collection with Communications Biology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports invites submissions focusing on structural variants (SVs) in organismal biology and disease.
                    Collection
                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2026

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