Editors' Highlights
Welcome to the Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights page. Our editors select a small number of articles recently published in Nature Communications that they believe are particularly interesting or important.
The aim is to provide a convenient snapshot of some of the most exciting work published in the various research areas at Nature Communications.
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Multidisciplinary research
Curated by Henrietta Howells, Congcong Huang, Iryna Omelchenko, Diane Reckziegel and Lorenzo Righetto.
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Astronomy and planetary science
Curated by Nilda Oklay and Sebastian Mueller.
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Curated by Walter Andriuzzi, Francesco Conti, Iain Dickson, Pilar Morera Margarit, Diane Reckziegel and Efi Rousi.
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Curated by Walter Andriuzzi, Chuanfu An, Emily Jones and Richard Pattison.
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Curated by Ripudaman Bains, Brittany Cardwell, Francesco Conti, Ildiko Gyory, Ching-Yu Huang, Riikka Jokinen, Madlen Luckner, Javier Martinez-Vesga, Gavin Mason, Diane Reckziegel, Lorenzo Righetto, Sonja Schmid, Catherine Smith and Aishwarya Sundaram.
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Curated by Walter Andriuzzi, Yann Benetreau, Brittany Cardwell, Myrthel Dogge and Emily Jones.
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Life sciences research
Curated by Chuanfu An, Qian Cheng, Ross Cloney, Cara Eldridge, Philip Lössl, Aline Lueckgen, Anne Mirabella, Lorenzo Righetto and Nelio Rodrigues.
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Curated by Joanne Clancy, Luca Danelli, Maria Garcia Fernandez, Ilse Ariadna Gutierrez, Stephanie Koo, Ylenia Lombardo, Paraskevi Mallini, Kathryn Mcginnis, Lorenzo Righetto and Aishwarya Sundaram.
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Curated by Walter Andriuzzi, Iain Dickson,Emily Jones and Pilar Morera Margarit.
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Curated by Charlotte Arlt, Brittany Cardwell, Fiona Carr, Myrthel Dogge, Henrietta Howells, Aleksandra Ichkova, Severi Luoto, Laura Mickelsen, Nicole Montijin, Sophie Morgan, and Cody Walters.
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From molecules and cells to organisms
Curated by Evan Bardot, Minju Ha, Nele Hug, Philip Lössl, Aline Lueckgen, Anne Mirabella, Daniel Morales, Angela Parrish and Robert Stephenson.
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Genetics, genomics and epigenetics
Curated by Chuanfu An, Poonam Bheda, Margot Brandt, Minju Ha, Nele Hug and Anne Mirabella.
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Curated by Luca Danelli, Ildiko Gyory, Ching-Yu Huang, Paraskevi Mallini, Gavin Mason, Timothy Powell and Aishwarya Sundaram.
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Microbiology and infectious diseases
Curated by Ripudaman Bains, Nino Iakobachvili, Madlen Luckner, Javier Martinez-Vesga, Hayleah Pickford, Cesar Sanchez, Sonja Schmid, Catherine Smith and Danielle Troppens.
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Curated by Evan Bardot, Ylenia Lombardo, Aline Lueckgen, Daniel Morales and Robert Stephenson.
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Structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics
Curated by Engi Hassaan, Stephane Larochelle, Philip Lössl, Katarzyna Marcinkiewicz, Benjamin McIlwain and Adriana Savastano.
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Translational and clinical research
Curated by Francesco Conti, Laura Corradi, Aline Lueckgen, Myrthel Dogge, Henrietta Howells, Andrew Jobbins, Riikka Jokinen, Ylenia Lombardo, Diane Reckziegel and Maria-Teresa Piccoli.
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Physical sciences research
Applied physics and mathematics
Curated by Marco Bentivegna, Antonio Fornieri, Congcong Huang, Selina La Barbera, Natalie Lok Kwan Li, Silvia Milana, Iryna Omelchenko, Heather Partner, Anjali Sharma, Ellasia Tan, Gustavo Tontini, Mengjie Wei and Jiajun Zhu.
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Curated by Majda Bratovič, Long Chen, Prateek Dongare, Jamal Malik, Eric Piechota, Prabhjot Saini, Adam Weingarten and Ronghuan Zhang.
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Curated by Margherita Citroni, Antonio Fornieri, Jakub Jadwiszczak, Silvia Milana, Anna Pertsova, Paul Wiecki and Jiajun Zhu.
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Curated by Antonio Fornieri, Congcong Huang, Selina La Barbera, Silvia Milana, Gustavo Tontini and Jiajun Zhu.
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Curated by Bradford Dubik, Kyle Frischkorn, Sebastien Mueller, Efi Rousi and Sam Royle.
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Curated by Long Chen, Prateek Dongare, Sebastian Mueller, Eric Piechota, Mo Qiao, Rinaldo Raccichini, Sara Renfrew, Adam Weingarten and Ronghuan Zhang.
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Inorganic and physical chemistry
Curated by Majda Bratovič, Margherita Citroni, Bishwanath Gaire, Harry Geddes, Johannes Kreutzer, Christian Kuttner, Sai Maddala, Prabhjot Saini, Joan Serrano-Plana and Gustavo Tontini.
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Materials science and chemistry
Curated by Majda Bratovič, Antonio Fornieri, Harry Geddes, Michael Ghidiu, Robert Guilliatt, Sumin Jin, Johannes Kreutzer, Christian Kuttner, Sai Maddala, Silvia Milana, Manel Mondelo, Anna Patterson, Prabhjot Saini and Gustavo Tontini.
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Curated by Marco Bentivegna and Bishwanath Gaire.
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Curated by Marco Bentivegna, Antonio Fornieri, Bishwanath Gaire, Cristiano Matricardi, Silvia Milana, and Ahne Myklatun.
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Organic chemistry and chemical biology
Curated by Majda Bratovič, Robert Guilliatt, Johannes Kreutzer, Jamal Malik, Anna Patterson, Prabhjot Saini, Joan Serrano-Plana,Virginia Valderrey Berciano andSunjie Ye.
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Curated by Marco Bentivegna, Bishwanath Gaire, Silvia Milana, Anna Pertsova and Rakesh Rana.
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