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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.

  • DNA repair and human disease

    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the mechanisms of DNA repair using multiple modelling systems and the applications of DNA repair mechanisms in human disease diagnosis and treatment.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 April 2026

    • Cancer Cell Atlases

      With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that expand the current catalog of cancer cell atlases using state-of-the-art omics techniques and algorithms.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 April 2026

      • Health outcomes of adversity in early life

        This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions investigating any health outcome resulting from adversity experienced in early life, including studies focused on prevention, epidemiological factors, pathophysiological mechanisms, the impact of socioeconomic factors, or advances in treatment options.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 March 2026

        • Cancer epigenetics and epitranscriptomics

          With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports invite submissions covering the breadth of research carried out in the field of cancer epigenetics and epitranscriptomics.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 March 2026

          • DNA-Based Computing and Data Storage

            This cross-journal Collection shines a spotlight on research exploring DNA as a scalable and sustainable medium for computing and data storage.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 March 2026

            • Lipids in Cell Biology

              This cross-journal collection highlights the sometimes surprising and often underappreciated functions of lipids in orchestrating cell biology via organelles and the plasma membrane.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 March 2026

              • Root Biology

                This cross-journal collection welcomes research and reviews on mechanisms of plant root growth, functions, and interaction with biotic and abiotic factors and how this knowledge could be employed for agricultural improvement.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 March 2026

                • Plant reproductive development

                  This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions aiming to elucidate the molecular insights into plant reproductive development.
                    Collection
                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 February 2026

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