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Biotechnology for a circular economy
This collection welcomes research in, but not limited to carbon assimilation, biomanufacturing, waste management, and bioenergy. We are also interested in computational methodology development related to all of the above fields.
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Experimental Ecology
This Collection welcomes primary research articles from any branch of ecology that focus on new experimental findings.
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Biomaterials-based therapeutics
This Collection welcomes submissions focusing on targeted drug delivery vehicles, biomaterials, nanoparticles and the exciting field of nanotheranostics.
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Methods for ecological and evolutionary data analysis
This Collection welcomes primary research articles describing advances in computational and statistical methodology for ecology and evolution.
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3D engineered tissues as disease models
This Collection welcomes research on the recent advances in the development of engineered 3D disease models.
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Molecular determinants of intracellular infection
This Collection welcomes submissions focusing on pathogen-host biology and involving intracellular bacteria and parasites.
Image: © [M] Nishith Gupta and Volker BrinkmannOpen for submissions -
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Cancer and aging
This cross-journal Collection invites original research that explicitly explores the role of aging in cancer and vice versa, from the bench to the bedside.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The 2023 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.
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Plant jumping genes: celebrating the legacy of Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was an American geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who dedicated her career to the study of hereditary traits in maize.
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Immunoepigenomics
This Collection welcomes research on 3D chromatin architecture or epigenomic remodelling in the context of immunity, hematopoesis, or inflammatory disease.
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Human BioMolecular Atlas Program
Inaugurated in 2018, the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) endeavours to construct comprehensive spatial maps that feature a range of biomolecules such as RNA, proteins, and metabolites in human organs at single-cell resolution.
Image: Heidi Schlehlein