Calls for papers

This collection welcomes research and reviews on the mechanistic interactions via molecules or cellular connections between microbes and the human host.

This Collection welcomes submissions of primary research articles that report novel molecular and mechanistic insights underpinning cellular movement.

This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions on novel reward and anti-reward mechanisms regulating motivated behaviors in health and disease.

The editors wish to invite submissions of original biological research that focus on any crosstalk between the neuronal and immunological systems.

This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions of clinical and preclinical work that explores all aspects of obesity, including causes, pathophysiological mechanisms, incidence, prevention, treatment and impact.

Manuscripts exploring glycans in the broadest sense, such as basic, translational, and applied glycobiology research fall within the scope of this collection.

With this collection we invite primary research articles and clinical reports that focus on the metabolic state of immune cells and metabolic regulation of immune responses in health or in disease.

Cell generate forces to maintain normal tissue morphology and function. Cells can also sense and process forces appropriate to their correct tissue context. With this cross-journal Collection between Communications Biology and Nature Communications, we welcome the submission of primary research articles exploring molecular mechanisms underlying how cells react to external mechanical stimuli, to forces between cells, and to intercellular forces

In this Collection, we invite studies that shed light on the many unanswered questions on the evolution of gene expression and its mechanisms.

This cross-journal Collection aims to explore the most recent advances on the topic of mitosis, mitotic regulation mechanisms, mitotic defects and their repercussions for cell growth and fate.