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  • Air Pollution Policy and Governance

    In this cross-journal collection, we invite contributions that assess the effectiveness of local, regional, and global air pollution policies and actions, and we also welcome studies that address national and international air pollution governance and cooperation.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 June 2025
    • Metal-organic frameworks for photocatalysis

      This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in using metal–organic frameworks as photocatalysts for broad applications such as, and not limited to, chemical synthesis, water splitting, and pollutant degradation.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 November 2024
      • Resistance to targeted cancer therapy

        In this cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports, welcomes research to improve our understanding of and address the issue of resistance to targeted cancer therapy.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 November 2024
        • Intergenerational transmission of behaviour and social capital

          This collection covers research on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic variables, non-biological traits, preferences, behaviors and environments, and how they relate to social mobility.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 November 2024
          • Plant responses and adaptations to abiotic stress

            Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome the submission of articles spanning the breadth of research on plant responses and adaptations to abiotic stress.
            • Showkat Ganie, PhD
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 November 2024
          • RNA therapeutics

            In this cross-journal Collection, we welcome submissions of articles that focus on the basic principles, method developments, and applications of RNA-based therapeutics.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 November 2024
            • Immune cell engineering for cancer therapy

              In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions of primary research articles that focus on preclinical and clinical development of immune cell-based therapies for cancer treatment.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 November 2024
              • Neuromorphic Hardware and Computing 2024

                An interdisciplinary approach is being taken to address the challenge of creating more efficient and intelligent computing systems that can perform diverse tasks, to design hardware with increasing complexity from single device to system architecture level, and to develop new theories and brain-inspired algorithms for future computing. In this cross-journal collection, we aim to bring together cutting-edge research of neuromorphic architecture and hardware, computing algorithms and theories, and the related innovative applications.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 November 2024
                • Non-equilibrium dynamics of biological droplets: from Phase Separation to Self-Assembly

                  This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports welcomes contributions where the description of the dynamics of biological droplets advances our understanding of specific biological processes, as well as more general contributions identifying common mechanisms and generating novel biophysical insight across the realm of biological droplets.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 November 2024
                  • Biology of rare genetic disorders

                    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology, npj Genomic Medicine and Scientific Reports brings together research articles that provide new insights into the biology of rare genetic disorders, also known as Mendelian or monogenic disorders.
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024