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October 10th marks World Mental Health Day. In an increasingly uncertain world, an understanding of how we can manage our own mental wellbeing and treat mental health conditions is more important than ever. Although much progress has been made in recent years in terms of our abilities to both diagnose and treat mental health conditions, the need to advance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms is continuous. In honour of World Mental Health Day this year, Communications Biology has gathered a Collection of our publications that fill some of the gaps in our current knowledge.
Examining the anatomy of an organism opens up a whole world of exploration into the function of its body, its evolution, and how it interacts with the biotic and abiotic elements in its environment. On the cusp of new advances in technology that have furthered this exploration, the editors at Communications Biology have gathered a Collection of our exciting research in organismal anatomy to highlight the possibilities of this field yet to come.
July is Disability Pride Month here in New York, where part of the Communications Biology team is based. To mark this occasion, we are featuring a series of scientist interviews on the Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community site and wanted to elaborate on our motivations behind this post and our hopes for the future concerning the lived experience of disability in science.
The collection of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes that form microbiota play an important role in both human and environmental health. In recognition of World Microbiome Day, we have curated a Collection of articles, news and commentary to celebrate the diversity of microbiome research published at Communications Biology, and highlight exciting new avenues for the field.
A recent meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory focused on emerging nucleic acid therapies and the essential academic research that has enabled them. The program encompassed everything from chemical innovations to preclinical and clinical progress, and provided a glimpse of the breakthroughs yet to come.
A new year symbolizes new hope for the future, especially this year as we start to see the first wave of vaccines administered against COVID-19. Here, we take stock of the year behind us and look forward to seeing where science takes us in 2021.
