Collections

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    Multivalent interactions between biological molecules result in the formation of biomolecular condensates, a phenomenon known as Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). Biomolecular condensates have important cellular and physiological functions, and aberration in LLPS can result in pathologies. This

    Image: Vicky Summersby
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    January 2024 marks 30 years since we published the first volume of NSMB. We will be celebrating this milestone throughout 2024, reflecting on the road covered and looking towards the future.

    Image: Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar, University of Cambridge.
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    Genome Engineering has great potential to change how we model, understand, and treat diseases.

    Image: XVIVO
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    In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Protein Data Bank, Nature Methods and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology present a collection that brings together reviews, classic papers, announcements and specially commissioned Comments by researchers from diverse areas of structural biology who share their views on both the past and future of the field.

    Image: Illustration by David S. Goodsell, ‘THE MACHINERY OF LIFE’, published 2009 by Springer Nature.
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    The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their pioneering work in gene-editing.

    Image: Springer Nature/The Nobel Foundation/Imagesource
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    To support urgent research to combat the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the editorial teams at Nature Research have curated a collection of relevant articles.

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    The discovery of antisense RNA phenomena has profoundly altered our understanding of gene regulation and revolutionized the way biological research is conducted.

  • Focus |

    This special Focus on Targeting Chromatin features Reviews, Perspectives and a Comment that discuss chromatin-associated proteins that are the subject of current drug-development efforts, highlighting chromatin processes as promising targets for therapeutic intervention.

    Image: Erin Dewalt
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    This collection includes recent articles from across the Nature group of journals and showcases both the latest advances in the methodologies used to study genome organization, and our recent understanding of how genome organization and nuclear architecture regulate gene expression, cell fate and cell function in physiology and disease.

    Image: V. Summersby
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    To mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the three nuclear RNA polymerases, we feature a collection of Perspective and Review pieces that narrate the history of eukaryotic transcription research from a personal perspective.

    Image: Art by Erin Dewalt, inspired by the concept of “ever-expanding complexity”.
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    We present a Series on Synaptic Processes, featuring commissioned Reviews and opinion pieces that discuss the expanding molecular understanding of how neural cells communicate.

    Image: Art by Erin Dewalt, inspired by the style of artist Wassily Kandinsky
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    We mark the 25th year of NSMB with a special Series of commissioned Reviews and Comments that celebrate exciting research uncovering the fundamental principles behind biological processes.