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  • 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.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 August 2024
    • Geroprotective interventions for healthy aging

      This cross-journal collection welcomes content on the development and testing of geroprotectors at any stage including clinical trials.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2024
      • Cancer epigenetics

        With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Medicine, and Scientific Reports invite submissions covering the breadth of research carried out in the field of cancer epigenetics. We will highlight studies aiming at the improvement of our understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy, metastasis and tumour plasticity as well as findings that have the potential to be translated into the clinic.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 July 2024
        • Neoadjuvant immunotherapy

          With this Collection, a partnership between Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications, we welcome submissions of primary research papers that focus on neo-adjuvant immunotherapies and related combinatorial approaches (such as radio-immunotherapy or chemo-immunotherapy).
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024
          • Health in Africa

            We aim to promote high-quality research that advances our understanding of health issues in Africa, and advocates for better healthcare on the continent in line with the UN’s SDGs.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 June 2024
            • Clinical trials

              In this call for papers, Nature Communications invites submissions of papers reporting interventional trials, including those yielding negative results for which primary end-points were not met.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 June 2024
              • Dietary interventions for cardiometabolic health

                This is a joint Collection across Nature Metabolism, Nature Communications, npj Metabolism in Health and Disease and Scientific Reports. Please see the relevant journal webpages to check which article types the journals consider. When preparing your submission, please refer to the relevant journal guidelines.
                • Nature Metabolism
                • Nature Communications
                • npj Metabolic Health and Disease
                • Suowen Xu
                • Hisashi Yokomizo
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 July 2024
              • 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.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024
                • Clinical research in neurological disorders

                  The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, npj Parkinson’s disease and Scientific Reports invite original research articles on the clinical aspects of neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.
                  • Nature Communications
                  • npj Parkinson's Disease
                  • Communications Medicine
                  • Hideki Mochizuki
                  • Antonio Suppa
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024