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Multi-omics Data Integration in Complex Diseases submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 22693
Keywords: omics; disease; data integration; bioinformatics; genome
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
Cardiovascular Autonomic Function: From Bench to Bedside
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 20692
Keywords: dysautonomia; heart rate variability; autonomic function testing; cardiovascular autonomic function; autonomic neuroscience; syncope; orthostatic hypotension; baroreflex
The Relationship between Water Quality and Aquatic Organisms
edited by Dong Zhang, , , and Mengmeng Yi
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 18143
Keywords: aquatic animals; water quality; phytoplankton; zooplankton; microorganisms; physiology
Beneficial Microorganisms for Plants
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11280
Keywords: plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR); mycorrhizal fungi; beneficial microorganisms; soil microbial communities
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Palaeolimnology and Hydrobiology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9621
(This special issue belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Cell Signaling in Health and Disease
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9332
Keywords: disease pathophysiology; cell differentiation; tissue homeostasis; organ remodeling; cell biology; cell morphology; embryology; human anatomy; organogenesis; organ meiopragia
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cell Biology)
Neurobiology and Biophysics of Sensory Systems
edited by Bruce Young
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7156
Keywords: multimodal; sensory integration; transduction; neurophysiology; behavioral ecology; neural “ maps” ; sensory thresholds; neural receptors
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Male Disorders: Fertility Care and Support, Preservation and Restoration
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7146
Keywords: cancer; fertility; cryopreservation; spermatozoa; testicular; in vitro spermatogenesis; cell transplantation; graft; male
(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive Biology)
Risk Assessment for Biological Invasions
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7133
Keywords: native species; data; pathway; habitat; impact; quarantine pest; national list; potential geographic distribution; economic losses
(This special issue belongs to the Section Conservation Biology and Biodiversity)
Microbial Diversity and Environmental Adaptability of Microorganisms in Extreme Environments
edited by , and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6274
Keywords: diversity; adaptation; mechanism; extreme environment; extremophile
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Effects of Environmental Stress on the Metabolic Dysfunction and Its Mechanism
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5142
Keywords: stress; glucocorticoid; nutritional disorders (disorders of nutrient metabolism; growth); metabolic disorders (obesity; insulin resistance; diabetes; nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; cardiovascular diseases); gut microbiota; biologically-active substance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Cigarette Smoke and Pulmonary Disease submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3045
Keywords: cigarette smoke; respiratory diseases; inflammation; immune response; cancer; senescence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Tumor Microenvironment of Ovarian Cancer: Role of Extracellular Matrix submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2153
Keywords: ovarian cancer; tumor microenvironment; immune therapy; 3D organoids; extracellular matrix; PARP inhibitors; chemoresistance; fallopian tube; cancer stem cells; metastasis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Morphological and Molecular Advances in Colorectal and Lung Cancers Biology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2067
Keywords: colorectal cancer; lung cancer; morphology; molecular
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Ferroptosis: Mechanisms and Human Disease
edited by Chan-Yen Kuo
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1835
Keywords: ferroptosis; systemic diseases; inflammatory response; mitochondrial-dependent redox homeostasis; microenvironment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cell Biology)
Advances in Human Evolution
edited by and Igor Rogozin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1646
Keywords: human evolution; human-specific genes; human brain architecture and development; anthropology changes; human population genetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
Environmental Microbes: From Distribution Exploration to Biosignatures Analysis submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1063
Keywords: environmental microbes; biogeochemical cycling; microbial biosignatures; astrobiology; geology; ecosystem health; microbial ecology; extremophiles; taphonomy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer Development, Metastasis and Treatment submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 431
Keywords: extracellular vesicles and exosomes; biological activity in development; differentiation; therapeutic applications; cancer biology; nanomedicine; biomarkers; tumor development; metastasis; drug delivery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
The Cellular and Molecular Bases for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs)
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 349
Keywords: intestinal inflammation; mucosa; lamina propria; colitis ulcerosa; Crohn’ s disease; endotoxin tolerance; treatment strategies; inflammatory bowel diseases; immune cells
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Hormonal Regulation of Female Reproduction submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 304
Keywords: reproduction; fertility; oestrous cycle; pregnancy; steroid hormones; prostaglandins; metabolic hormones
(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive Biology)
Protein Interaction and Recognition submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 274
Keywords: protein/protein interactions; protein/DNA interactions; protein/RNA interactions; protein/antibiotic interactions; protein recognition; X-ray structure; EM structure; structure-based protein engineering; affinity chromatography; binding assays
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Milk Oligosaccharides: Biological Functions and Application Prospects
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 263
Keywords: milk oligosaccharides; colostrum; HMO; gut microbiota; immune modulator; prebiotics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
NF-κB and Its Role in Health and Disease
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 255
Keywords: NF-κ B; κ B; IKKs; inflammation; pro-inflammation; immune system; disease; biomarker; gene
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Evolutionary Biology from an Information Theory Approach submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 252
Keywords: evolution; population genetics; information; Kullback– Leibler; Jeffreys divergence; population stability index
(This special issue belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
Biological Bases of Alzheimer's Disease submission deadline 1 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 329 | Submission Open
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease; amyloid-beta (Aβ ) plaques; neurofibrillary tangles; neuroinflammation; biological mechanisms; APP; PSEN; memory impairment  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Single-Cell Omics Biology
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 276 | Submission Open
Keywords: epigenetics; cellular heterogeneity; developmental biology; disease mechanisms; therapeutic strategies; multi-omics integration; rare cell populations; computational biology; data visualization and interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Genomics)
Feature Papers in 'Conservation Biology and Biodiversity'
edited by
submission deadline 11 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2858 | Submission Open
Keywords: population genomics and diversity; heterozygosity; inbreeding; hybridization; adaptive introgression; natural selection; speciation; bottleneck and population fragmentation; genetic drift; gene flow; extinction risk; evolvability; paleogenomics; phylogeography; conservation units; ecotypes; phylogenetics and systematics; eDNA; non-invasive genetic sampling; environmental monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Conservation Biology and Biodiversity)
Patho-Mechanisms Associated with Oral Autoimmune Disease and Cancer
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 15941 | Submission Open
Keywords: oral cancer; blistering diseases; autoimmunity; cell-adhesion; microenvironment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Genetic Characteristics and Pathogenesis of Zoonotic Diseases
edited by Dima El Safadi and
submission deadline 19 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open
Keywords: zoonotic diseases; genetic characteristics; pathogenic mechanisms; host– pathogen interactions; transmission dynamics; disease emergence; One Health approach TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //     This page is in English   Translate to Simplified Chinese         Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh   Always translate English to Simplified ChinesePRO Never translate English Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
Development of New Optical Techniques and Methods for Basic Biology and Biomedical Applications
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16106 | Submission Open
Keywords: food production and control; imaging (multispectral/hyperspectral/time resolved); luminescence; metabolism (animal/vegetable); optical biopsy; optical coherence tomography; optical neuronal networks; photoacoustic tomography; remote sensing; spectroscopy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
New Insights in Neurogenetics
edited by James P. Orengo
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10516 | Submission Open
Keywords: neurogenetics; neurological disorders; neurodevelopmental; neurodegenerative; neurology; psychiatry; neuroscience; animal models; whole-genome sequencing; personalized medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Roles and Functions of Neurotrophins and Their Receptors in the Brain submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8713 | Submission Open
Keywords: aging; behavior; learning; memory; mental disorders; neuroanatomy; neurobiology; neuronal plasticity; neurophysiology; synaptic plasticity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Approaches for the Reconstruction of Protein Families’ and Superfamilies’ Evolution with Consequences for De Novo Protein Design 2.0
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8460 | Submission Open
Keywords: protein family evolution; protein superfamily; convergent evolution; divergent evolution; molecular phylogeny; horizontal gene transfer; structure– function relationship; de novo protein design
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Proteomics in Immunology and Cell Signaling
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8341 | Submission Open
Keywords: proteomics; biological mass spectrometry; cell signaling; innate immunity; T and B cell immune response; extracellular vesicles; immunopeptidomics; clinical proteomics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Recent Advances in Soil Health: Influences of Organic Carbon and Microbiota
edited by , Audrius Gegeckas and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5868 | Submission Open
Keywords: diversity of soil microbial community; soil microbial function in environment; soil microbiomics; carbon sequestration; soil organic matter (SOM); soil organic carbon (SOC); soil quality; plant– soil microbial interaction; eco-friendly agriculture; biofertilizers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Mechanism of Interaction between Rhizosphere Microbes and Host Plants
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5772 | Submission Open
Keywords: rhizosphere microbes; microbial isolation and culture; plant-microbe interaction mechanisms; microbiome assembly
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Genetic Resources and Gene Editing Tools for Plant Resistance: Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2774 | Submission Open
Keywords: abiotic stress; biotic stress; crop improvement; genome editing; plant resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Copper Biology in Health and Disease
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2065 | Submission Open
Keywords: copper and tumor growth; cancer; chemotherapy; copper chelation; copper homeostasis; metal nutrition; copper transport; clinical cancer research
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Pathophysiology of Hypertension and Related Diseases submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1526 | Submission Open
Keywords: arterial hypertension; resistant hypertension; secondary hypertension; prevention and screening of hypertension; hypertensive crisis; treatment of hypertension; obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome; pathophsyiology of hypertension; hypertension and the environment; (pre)hypertension and genetics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Mitochondria: The Signaling Organelle
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1423 | Submission Open
Keywords: mitochondria; signal transduction; homeostasis; metabolism; apoptosis; redox biology; organelle communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Biology of Brain Tumors: State of the Art and Future Directions
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 837 | Submission Open
Keywords: brain tumors; heterogeneous diseases; molecular basis; cancer genetics; cancer metabolomics; biomarker studies; immunotherapy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Diet-Microbiota Impacts on Intestinal Inflammation
edited by Guilherme Zweig Rocha
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open
Keywords: intestinal microbiota; diet; inflammation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Biology and Conservation of Killer Whales
edited by Tracey Rogers
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open
Keywords: cetaceans; biology; ecology; conservation; impacts; killer whales; orca whales; communication; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Advance in Sleep and Circadian Rhythms 2.0 submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open
Keywords: sleep physiology; sleep regulation; sleep disorders; circadian rhythms; circadian dysregulation; sleep evolution; sleep function
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Immune-Cancer Crosstalk
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open
Keywords: cancer; immune; T-cell; innate; adaptive; checkpoint; immunosuppressive
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Advances in Leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease: Biology, Epidemiology, Treatment and Control submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7061 | Submission Open
Keywords: Leishmaniasis; Chagas disease; immunopathogeny; diagnosis; epidemiology; control; clinical studies; treatment; vaccine  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Biosynthesis of Metabolites from Microorganisms, or Microorganism-Host Interaction? (Volume II) submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1049 | Submission Open
Keywords: biosynthesis; biological activity; biosynthesis regulation; microbial metabolites; microbe– host reaction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Novel Dynamics and Mechanisms of Stromal-Leukocyte Interactions in Chronic Tissue Inflammation and Healing
edited by Matthias Friedrich, Pablo Céspedes and Mathilde Pohin
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open
Keywords: autoimmunity; chronicity; wound healing; intolerance; immune/immunological synapses; cytokine networks; antigen presentation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Statistical and Bioinformatics Methods in Population Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Studies
edited by Bjarki Eldon
submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open
Keywords: coalescent; genetic variation; inference; speciation; pan-genome; epidemiology; biodiversity; pathogens; genome-wide association studies; ecological genomics TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //     This page is in English   Translate to Simplified Chinese         Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh   Always translate English to Simplified ChinesePRO Never translate English Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
Immune Microenvironment and Molecular Mechanism of Glioma
edited by Carolina Cristina Jancic
submission deadline 24 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open
Keywords: gliomas; tumor microenvironment; immune response; tumor evasion; tumor resistance; immunotherapy TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian   //   TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back //     This page is in Latin   Translate to Simplified Chinese         Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh   Always translate Latin to Simplified ChinesePRO Never translate Latin Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
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