Editorials in 2015

Deciphering the complexity of events at telomeres has enhanced understanding of how telomeres function to maintain genome integrity and how their dysfunction gives rise to human disease.

Sharing source data—the actual measurements and unprocessed images behind the graphical representations used in figures—helps to ensure transparency and reproducibility of research results. We urge our authors to submit and share the source data with their published papers.

Nature and Nature Research Journals start offering anonymity to authors during the peer-review process.

The long-held view that the primary role of RNA is to code for proteins has been severely undermined. This Focus explores the remarkable functional diversity of RNA in light of recent breakthroughs in noncoding-RNA biology.