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.

  • Immune cell engineering for cancer therapy

    In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions of primary research articles that focus on preclinical and clinical development of immune cell-based therapies for cancer treatment.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 November 2024

    • Biology of rare genetic disorders

      This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology, npj Genomic Medicine and Scientific Reports brings together research articles that provide new insights into the biology of rare genetic disorders, also known as Mendelian or monogenic disorders.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024

      • RNA modifications

        This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the molecular biology of RNA modifications and methods developed to identify and characterize them.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

        • Microscopic Imaging in Deep Tissue

          This Collection will highlight Articles that involve new tools and emerging techniques for imaging at increased penetration depths within tissue as well as considering advances in conventional and state-of-the-art light microscopy techniques.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 October 2024

          • Neurobiology of chronic pain

            Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome submissions offering new insights into the neural mechanisms of transduction, transmission and processing underlying the initiation and chronicity of pain.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 September 2024

            • Immune Aging

              This collection aims to improve understanding how the immune system changes during aging and welcomes submissions to Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 August 2024

              • Oligodendrocytes in health and disease

                This cross-journal Collection welcomes the submission of primary research articles that focus on oligodendrocytes lineage cells in development, physiology, and disease.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 August 2024

                • Cultivated Meat and Alternative Protein Sources

                  The editors at Nature Communications, npj Science of Food, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports invite submissions in the areas of alternative/non-animal protein sources, cultivated meat technology (including cell lines, tissue engineering, culture media) and general considerations around cultivated meat.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 August 2024

                  • Microphysiological Systems

                    The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Engineering and Scientific Reports invite submissions on Microphysiological Systems, specifically Engineering Advances, Modeling Biological Phenomena and Modelling Disease & Drug Testing.
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 August 2024