With this Collection, editors invite primary, translational, and clinical research submissions focusing on women’s brain health.

Mechanistic characterization of oyster CD96 sheds light on the role of this invertebrate immune checkpoint and its downstream ERK-metabolic-epigenetic regulatory axis in the context of microbial-induc...

This joint Collection between Nature Communications and Communications Biology welcomes submissions of primary research, reviews/ perspectives that ...

A genome-wide knockout screen of bacteriophage DruSM1 identifies genes that counter diverse bacterial defense systems, revealing how phages adapt to bacterial diversity.

Plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) track feeding ecology across weevils, revealing how horizontal gene transfer and gene family turnover contribute to dietary specialization.

Regulation of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase (Pdk4) offers mechanistic insights into enhancing stemness of aging intestinal stem cells via switching metabolic fuel preference and increased mitochondria...

Behavioral analyses of mixed shoals reveal how habituation shapes collective behavior in fish. Differences in local interaction rules drive central positioning, stronger coordination, and follower beh...

A long-term citizen science project in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, reveals that from 1979 to 2017, distribution ranges contracted in 44.8% and expanded in 36.9% of all 1,864 native vascular plant spec...

This cross-journal collection invites submissions that expand the current catalogue of cancer cell atlases using state-of-the-art omics techniques and ...

In mice, the cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase TENT5C and RNA-binding protein LARP4B cooperatively protect and re-extend globin mRNA poly(A) tails during terminal erythropoiesis, sustaining hemoglobin pr...

A study reveals an independent case of plastid loss and a metabolic partnership with a bacterial endosymbiont in an understudied lineage of non-photosynthetic ochrophytes.

Deep-sea observations, molecular, and geochemical analyses of Antarctic krill at hydrothermal vents reveal that gravid females use active vent habitats and exhibit signs of chemosynthetic feeding.

The authors develop a high-throughput platform to quantify programmed ribosomal frameshifting inhibition by large libraries of protein variants. They identify residues essential for the activity of th...

Satellite observations reveal five newly identified emperor penguin colony sites, suggesting that colonies are dynamic, relocating over long distances in response to changing ice conditions and reshap...

Bayesian hierarchical modeling of cross-platform DNA methylation data enables detection of tissue-specific and cancer-associated signatures in MeDIP-seq measurements of bulk and cell-free DNA.

Antarctic krill serve as a crucial food source for penguins, seals, and whales. They recycle nutrients used by algae. Now researchers say they've found krill in a surprising place: hydrothermal vents.

A review presents a three-dimensional framework integrating the duality, vicious cycle, and tissue specificity of SASP and inflammaging, providing new insights into aging mechanisms and senescence-tar...

CHRAC17, a key coordinator of chromatin remoder and DNA polymerase ε (Polε), orchestrates sequential chromatin remodeling, nucleosome assembly and sliding, to promote RAD51-mediated HR and mobilize Po...

Parto-Dezfouli et al. analyze variability in LFP and EEG signals. They find that the previously used across-trial variability is almost identical to within-trial variability, i.e., the usual power met...

In this Review, the authors present distinguishing features for 62 cell types found in skeletal muscle and discuss how each cell type contributes to skeletal muscle function.

The authors generated gene expression profiles for each cortical layer of the tree shrew, especially of OSVZ. Cross-species comparative analyses revealed that cell cycle- and ECM-associated pathways a...

A new protoplast-based platform enables transient transformation and proof-of-concept CRISPR/Cas12a-mediated genome editing in European beech, a key but recalcitrant forest tree species.

The authors develop a high-throughput platform to quantify programmed ribosomal frameshifting inhibition by large libraries of protein variants. They identify residues essential for the activity of th...

Repeated, short bouts of social separation during the critical period drives premature maturation of perineuronal nets in the vocal motor pathway of zebra finches and impairs vocal imitation, highligh...

A computational framework applies a Vision Transformer (ViT)-based autoencoder to generate unsupervised learning-derived image phenotypes (ViT-UDIPs) based on T1-weighted brain MRI scans from a subset...

BRD2, via its ET tail, impairs iPSC generation in early reprogramming by maintaining the somatic transcription, especially, the somatic matrisome program, and by suppressing lipid biosynthesis. Lipid ...

Cardiomyocytes derived from tetraploid iPSCs established by cell fusion recapitulate characteristics of post-mitotic cardiomyocytes more precisely than conventional diploid iPSC derived cardiomyocytes...

In this week's Communications Biology Editor's Pick, we recommend three interesting studies. He et al. use phylogenomics and skull-based deep learning to uncover hidden species diversity among talpid ...

In this Collection, we invite submissions that investigate the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive flexibility across multiple levels of analysis in health ...

Decoding neural threat-reward information using high-precision MEG in humans shows that defensive cardiac states sharpen low-frequency value representations in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during ...

The Editors at Communications Biology now invite submissions that advance the development, validation, and application of in vitro systems across biological ...