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Calls for papers

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.

  • Advances in Central Nervous System Injuries

    This collection welcomes original pre-clinical and clinical studies on CNS injuries, focusing on diverse aspects in pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation strategies.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 14 February 2027
    • Cancer Neuroscience: from mechanisms to therapy

      With this collection, Nature Communications, Nature, Nature Cancer, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Progress Oncology, Nature Progress Brain Health, and Communications Biology invite submissions that aim to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying bidirectional cancer–nervous system interactions and their influence on the tumour microenvironment, as well as pre-clinical and clinical studies exploring potential therapeutic strategies to target neural–cancer interactions.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 January 2027
      • Developmental epigenetics

        The editors at Communications Biology now invite mechanistic studies that advance understanding of epigenetic regulation in development using in vivo systems, organoids, or other model systems.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 January 2027
        • Stem Cells in Regeneration and Repair

          Communications Biology invites submissions to this Collection focusing on stem cell-driven regeneration and repair in development, homeostasis, and disease.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 January 2027
          • Functional Soil Ecology

            We welcome contributions across a broad range of topics, including microbial and faunal functional traits, biogeochemical processes, soil–plant interactions, ecosystem services, methodological developments, and applications that support sustainable land management.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 January 2027
            • Peptide drug design

              We are interested in methodological studies, including both computational and experimental approaches for designing new peptide therapeutics. We also welcome research presenting experimentally validated design of novel peptides.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 January 2027
              • Coral Biology Under Climate Stress

                Editors invite manuscripts that advance the scientific understanding of coral stress responses and climate resilience across molecular, physiological, ecological, and restoration focused dimensions.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 January 2027
                • Emerging Post-Translational Modifications

                  We invite submissions that examine the mechanistic role and relevance of emerging or recently functionalized PTMs in the context of mammalian cell biology or disease.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 January 2027
                  • Generative Models in Engineering Biology

                    This cross-journal Collection aims to bring together the latest and most compelling demonstration of generative models used for engineering biology, covering a range of fields where the resulting achievement is an engineered biological system.
                      Collection
                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 January 2027

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