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.

  • DNA-Based Computing and Data Storage

    This cross-journal Collection shines a spotlight on research exploring DNA as a scalable and sustainable medium for computing and data storage.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 September 2025

    • Lipids in Cell Biology

      This cross-journal collection highlights the sometimes surprising and often underappreciated functions of lipids in orchestrating cell biology via organelles and the plasma membrane.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 September 2025

      • Root Biology

        This cross-journal collection welcomes research and reviews on mechanisms of plant root growth, functions, and interaction with biotic and abiotic factors and how this knowledge could be employed for agricultural improvement.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 September 2025

        • Plant reproductive development

          This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions aiming to elucidate the molecular insights into plant reproductive development.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 August 2025

          • Drug-tolerant persister cells in cancer

            With this cross-journal collection, Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions aiming to elucidate the molecular mechanisms, potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers of drug-tolerant persister (DTPs) cells for cancer.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 August 2025

            • The Cell Biology of Cell Motility

              This Collection welcomes submissions of primary research articles that report novel molecular and mechanistic insights underpinning cellular movement.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 August 2025