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Structural genetic variants, from detection to phenotype
This cross-journal Collection with Communications Biology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports invites submissions focusing ...
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📣🔬⚙️ Submissions are open for our Biosensing Collection! We welcome research articles on the development of engineered biosensing devices with potential applications in biomedical research and the management of disease conditions.
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Biosensing
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📣🔬⚙️ Submissions are open for our Biosensing Collection! We welcome research articles on the development of engineered biosensing devices with potential applications in biomedical research and the management of disease conditions.
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Discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders.
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🧠👶👵Submit your work investigating human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age, to our cross-journal collection including @natcomms.nature.com @natneuro.nature.com
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Lifespan changes in the human brain
This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.
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🧠👶👵Submit your work investigating human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age, to our cross-journal collection including @natcomms.nature.com @natneuro.nature.com
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We welcome submissions of papers focused on genome assembly, population genetics, marker-trait association studies, gene cloning, and breeding technique development and implementation in orphan crops to our joint collection that includes @natcomms.nature.com @commssustain.nature.com
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Orphan crop genomics and improvement 2025
This Orphan Crop Genomics and Improvement Collection welcomes submissions on orphan crops genomics, genetics, and breeding.
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Mapping the Invisible: Translating Kinetic States into Structural Reality in P2X Receptors
To understand P2X activation, we moved beyond abstract
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December 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Check out this behind the paper post from Luciano Moffatt and Gustavo Pierdominici about how integration of electrophysiology, simulations, and Bayesian inference provided insights into P2X receptor activation.
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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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Our joint call for papers on crosstalk between the neuroimmunological systems - neural regulation of peripheral or tissue-resident immune cells & immune modulation of nociceptor signaling or synaptic transmission remains open
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Neuro-immune crosstalk
The editors wish to invite submissions of original biological research that focus on any crosstalk between the neuronal and immunological systems.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Our joint call for papers on crosstalk between the neuroimmunological systems - neural regulation of peripheral or tissue-resident immune cells & immune modulation of nociceptor signaling or synaptic transmission remains open
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Our Collection with @natcomms.nature.com and Scientific Reports invites submissions on the regulation and mechanisms of mitosis and mitotic defects. Curated by our Board Member @labmeraldi.bsky.social
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Mitosis and Mitotic Defects
This cross-journal Collection aims to explore the most recent advances on the topic of mitosis, mitotic regulation mechanisms, mitotic defects and their ...
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Check out this very interesting behind-the paper post from Stephan Kellenberger @unil.bsky.social about the activation mechanism of a ligand-gated ion channel:
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Check out this very interesting behind-the paper post from Stephan Kellenberger @unil.bsky.social about the activation mechanism of a ligand-gated ion channel:
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Infection and Cancer
This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions on the underlying mechanisms of the complex interplay between infection and cancer.
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DNA repair and human disease
This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the mechanisms of DNA ...
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🧬Submissions are still open for our DNA repair and human disease Collection, a cross-journal Collection, highlighting new research and methodological advances.
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⚠️ Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026
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🕷️🥬The discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders. @uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🕷️🥬The discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders. @uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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💡Since November 2025, @springernature.com has introduced "Articles in Press", an initiative giving authors earlier visibility without compromising the quality or integrity of the final publication. ⌛Faster access to accepted research! For more information:
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🧠🙊Human and macaque frontal operculum connectivity patterns point to a unique human subdivision in the prefrontal cortex that may serve as a control hub for some speech functions.
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The prefrontal operculum, a human-specific hub for the cognitive control of speech - Communications Biology
Human and macaque frontal operculum connectivity patterns point to a uniquely human subdivision in the prefrontal cortex that may serve as a control hub for some speech functions.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🧠🙊Human and macaque frontal operculum connectivity patterns point to a unique human subdivision in the prefrontal cortex that may serve as a control hub for some speech functions.
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🦠Live growth and Raman microscopy of Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047 reveals calcite precipitation induced by mechanical stress and heterocyst-seed crystal contact, thereby advancing our understanding of how these cells impact their microenvironment. @jwtay1.bsky.social
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Calcite precipitation by the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047 - Communications Biology
Live growth and Raman microscopy of Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047 reveals calcite precipitation induced by mechanical stress and heterocyst-seed crystal contact, thereby advancing our understanding of how t...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🦠Live growth and Raman microscopy of Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047 reveals calcite precipitation induced by mechanical stress and heterocyst-seed crystal contact, thereby advancing our understanding of how these cells impact their microenvironment. @jwtay1.bsky.social
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🐚Tubular lingulellotretid #brachiopods, exemplifying a short-lived evolutionary experiment during the Cambrian explosion, gave way to the more efficient tongue-shaped body plan of lingulides by the evolutionary reduction of pseudointerarea.
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Combining soft-bodied and three-dimensional fossils to reveal evolutionary modifications in early lingulellotretid brachiopods - Communications Biology
Tubular lingulellotretid brachiopods, exemplifying a short-lived evolutionary experiment during the Cambrian explosion, gave way to the more efficient tongue-shaped body plan of lingulides by the evol...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🐚Tubular lingulellotretid #brachiopods, exemplifying a short-lived evolutionary experiment during the Cambrian explosion, gave way to the more efficient tongue-shaped body plan of lingulides by the evolutionary reduction of pseudointerarea.
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🧠New study elucidates molecular mechanisms of neuronal
activity-dependent GLUT3 translocation to the plasma membrane and its role in supplying energy for #learning and #memory.
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activity-dependent GLUT3 translocation to the plasma membrane and its role in supplying energy for #learning and #memory.
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Neuronal activity-induced GLUT3 plasma translocation supports energy demands for memory acquisition - Communications Biology
This study elucidates molecular mechanisms of neuronal activity-dependent GLUT3 translocation to the plasma membrane and its role in supplying energy for learning and memory.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🧠New study elucidates molecular mechanisms of neuronal
activity-dependent GLUT3 translocation to the plasma membrane and its role in supplying energy for #learning and #memory.
www.nature.com/articles/s42....
activity-dependent GLUT3 translocation to the plasma membrane and its role in supplying energy for #learning and #memory.
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🐫 🐭 Analysis of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted animals further supports a role for cholesterol during chronic dehydration and reveals new candidate genes that may play a role when water is scarce.
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Reconstruction of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted species - Communications Biology
Analysis of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted animals further supports a role for cholesterol during chronic dehydration and reveals new candidate genes that may ...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🐫 🐭 Analysis of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted animals further supports a role for cholesterol during chronic dehydration and reveals new candidate genes that may play a role when water is scarce.
@bristoluni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@bristoluni.bsky.social
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Research from @jeanlab-uds.bsky.social presenting proximity labelling #proteomics of RAB #GTPases identifies an array of neighbouring RAB proteins and offers a valuable resource for
exploring new functional connections between RAB GTPases and their associated proteins.
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exploring new functional connections between RAB GTPases and their associated proteins.
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A proximity map of RAB GTPases delineates roles for RAB14 in EARP complex and UHRF1BP1 endosomal recruitments - Communications Biology
Proximity labeling proteomics of RAB GTPases identifies an array of neighboring RAB proteins. Functional validation studies reveal links between RAB25 and DENND6A, or between RAB14 and either the EARP...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Research from @jeanlab-uds.bsky.social presenting proximity labelling #proteomics of RAB #GTPases identifies an array of neighbouring RAB proteins and offers a valuable resource for
exploring new functional connections between RAB GTPases and their associated proteins.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
exploring new functional connections between RAB GTPases and their associated proteins.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
New research reveals non-canonical Gαs #endosomal trafficking mechanisms, with important implications for endosomal #GPCR signalling.
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Class A and B GPCRs trigger rapid Gαs translocation to late and slow recycling endosomes - Communications Biology
This research reveals Gαs trafficking mechanisms, highlighting non-canonical pathways influencing endosomal GPCR signaling dynamics and implications.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New research reveals non-canonical Gαs #endosomal trafficking mechanisms, with important implications for endosomal #GPCR signalling.
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New perspective 🦠: the ancestral evolutionary states of thylakoid membranes may have been initially dedicated to non-oxygenic alternative electron flows. #cyanobacteria
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On the non-oxygenic origins of thylakoids - Communications Biology
The ancestral evolutionary states of thylakoid membranes may have been initially dedicated to non-oxygenic alternative electron flows.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New perspective 🦠: the ancestral evolutionary states of thylakoid membranes may have been initially dedicated to non-oxygenic alternative electron flows. #cyanobacteria
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💡New review by @emgaiz.bsky.social & @silviasurinova.bsky.social summarises recent innovations driving low-input phosphoproteomics, focusing on miniaturised workflows, multiplexed labelling, automated enrichment, and acquisition methods for scarce biological material.
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The pursuit of ultrasensitive phosphoproteomics to unravel signalling in rare cells - Communications Biology
A review of recent innovations driving low-input phosphoproteomics, focusing on miniaturized workflows, multiplexed labelling, automated enrichment, and advanced acquisition methods for scarce biologi...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
💡New review by @emgaiz.bsky.social & @silviasurinova.bsky.social summarises recent innovations driving low-input phosphoproteomics, focusing on miniaturised workflows, multiplexed labelling, automated enrichment, and acquisition methods for scarce biological material.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Metabolic syndrome in horses has distinct metabotypes tied to triglycerides or bile acids. Multi-omic profiling revealed links to insulin, genetics, and microbiota, positioning horses as model for metabolic syndrome diagnostics and therapies.
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Bile acids segregate metabolic syndrome in a cohort of 100 deeply phenotyped horses - Communications Biology
Metabolic syndrome in horses has distinct metabotypes tied to triglycerides or bile acids. Multi-omic profiling revealed links to insulin, genetics, and microbiota, positioning horses as model for met...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Metabolic syndrome in horses has distinct metabotypes tied to triglycerides or bile acids. Multi-omic profiling revealed links to insulin, genetics, and microbiota, positioning horses as model for metabolic syndrome diagnostics and therapies.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Analysis of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted animals further supports a role for cholesterol during chronic dehydration and reveals new candidate genes that may play a role when water is scarce.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reconstruction of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted species - Communications Biology
Analysis of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted animals further supports a role for cholesterol during chronic dehydration and reveals new candidate genes that may ...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Analysis of the transcriptional regulatory networks in the kidney of desert-adapted animals further supports a role for cholesterol during chronic dehydration and reveals new candidate genes that may play a role when water is scarce.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...