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  • Controlling disorder in framework materials

    This collection aims to highlight the importance of disorder in framework materials, including characterisation their structures and the types of disorder present, and the role of disorder in the materials’ properties and function.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 January 2025
    • Immunity to infection and microbiota

      In this cross-journal collection, we invite submissions with a focus on the immune response to bacterial infection and immune interplay with the host microbiome, spanning basic immunobiology, translational and clinical work.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 January 2025
      • Climate change impacts on marine contaminants

        In this cross-journal collection, we highlight studies that examine the ways in which changes in environmental conditions, drivers, and impacts resulting from climate change have influenced or may influence contaminants across all areas of the marine environment.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 05 January 2025
        • Viral hepatitis

          This joint collection welcomes preclinical, clinical, epidemiological, and public health research focused on viral hepatitis.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 05 January 2025
          • Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Cancer

            In this cross-journal collection between Nature Communications, npj Digital Medicine, npj Precision Oncology, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports, we invite submissions with a focus on artificial intelligence in cancer.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 December 2024
            • Smart Materials for Bioengineering and Biomedicine

              In this cross-journal Collection at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports, we welcome submissions focusing on various aspects, from mechanistic understanding to clinical translation, of smart materials for applications in bioengineering and biomedicine, such as, drug delivery, biosensing, bioimaging and tissue engineering.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 December 2024
              • Prokaryotic Immunity and Viral Evasion Systems

                In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions investigating prokaryotic immunity and viral evasion systems, drawing on genomics, genetics, cell and structural biology, virology and other approaches.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 December 2024
                • Conservation Genomics

                  This Collection seeks submissions to Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports that highlight the contribution of genomic data to animal conservation strategies and population management
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 December 2024
                  • Wearable Devices for Assisted Mobility

                    This collection of articles from Communications Engineering, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports reflects the variety of different research directions towards wearable devices for monitoring, rehabilitating, restoring and even augmenting physiological movement.
                    • Catherine (Cathy) Holloway, PhD
                    • Jonathon S. Schofield, PhD
                    • Cecilia de Carvalho Castro Silva, PhD
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 November 2024