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.

  • 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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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

    • Immunoepigenomics

      This Collection welcomes research on 3D chromatin architecture or epigenomic remodelling in the context of immunity, hematopoesis, or inflammatory disease.
      • Guideng Li, PhD
      • Eirini Trompouki, PhD
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 June 2024

    • Artificial intelligence in genomics

      Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome submissions that showcase how artificial intelligence can be used to improve our understanding of the genetic basis for complex traits or diseases.
      • Kaoru Ito, PhD
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 October 2024

    • Biology of reproduction

      For this Collection, we encourage submissions that push forward our understanding of reproduction and its impact on offspring in both model organisms and human studies.
      • Frank William Avila, PhD
      • Jun Wei Pek, PhD
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 July 2024

    • Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

      The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.
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        Submission status: Open

      • Agrobiodiversity

        For this Collection, we welcome any submissions with novel exploration of biodiversity within agricultural settings across floral, faunal or microbial levels.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 July 2024

        • Spatial biology in cancer

          This Collection welcomes studies which apply spatial profiling technologies in pre-clinical or translational settings as well as in basic cancer research.
          • Ruby Yun-Ju Huang
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 June 2024

        • Shift work and circadian biology

          For this Collection, we encourage submissions that highlight recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms by which different shift work patterns in human occupations disturb circadian rhythms.
          • Tami Martino
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 September 2024

        • DNA damage response and Immunity

          This collection welcomes submission on the function of DNA repair processes in regulating immune responses and tumorigenesis at the molecular and cellular level, and the consequences on a systemic level.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2024

          • Endocrine disruptors - from invertebrate systems to human patho-physiologies

            This Collection welcomes submissions that highlight mechanistic and ecological advancements to our understanding on how endocrine disruptors impact ourselves and the world around us through altering cellular and systemic metabolic functions.
            • Christopher Hine
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 02 August 2024