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This Section of the journal Life aims to rapidly publish contributions related to animal and poultry science. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that report significant advances in those fields. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Anatomy Behavior Biochemistry Biotechn...

Papers published in this Section address molecular events that drive life processes. Topics include, but are not limited to biomolecular design, activation and function; molecular evolution; biomolecular trafficking, and networks; membranes, and molecular organization in cells. We encourage the subm...

Research papers published in this Section will center on the application of biological and engineering principles to understand and control cell and tissue behavior. We encourage the submission of works focused on cellular mechanics and cell signaling, how cells organize and modulate their activitie...

This section publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research advancing the mechanistic and conceptual understanding of biological diversity across all levels of biological organization, as well as the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive the origin, maintenance, and spatiotemporal distrib...

To assist health workers and researchers involved in public healthcare and decision making, Life has created a new Section, called Epidemiology. This Section originally discussed COVID-19-related epidemiological studies, but is now open to submissions on any matter relevant to the epidemiology of ot...

The Genomics and Proteomics section publishes high-quality research that advances our understanding of genomic structure, function, and regulation, as well as proteomic expression, modification, and interaction networks, along with the synergistic crosstalk between these two layers to shape biologic...

Contributions to the Medical Research section include original papers covering a broad spectrum of biomedical and clinical research, as well as epidemiological studies. We welcome basic and translational science, clinical case and public health reports on topics, including but not limited to:&n...

Microbiology is a section in Life that publishes original research articles, reviews, short communications, and clinical case reports within a scope that encompasses the entire spectrum of the microbial world, from basic to applied microbiology. Life covers all microorganisms, including viruses...

Papers published in this Section are related to the chemical and physical processes involved in the study of  the origin of life. Although many of the papers will concern the origin of life on early Earth, studies of how life can begin on other planets and moons in the solar system and exoplane...

This section of the Life aims to publish original articles and reviews on anatomy, morphology, and taxonomy of fossil organisms, as well as their distribution, ecology, and origin. It also publishes studies on the evolution of organisms, ecosystems, and the biosphere. Keywords: Palaeozoology P...

This section of the journal Life aims to rapidly publish contributions related to pharmaceutical science. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that report significant advances in those fields. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutics, n...

This section of the journal Life rapidly and rigorously publishes contributions related to the health and disease of living cells, tissues, and organisms. Starting from a cellular and tissue perspective, the broad focus of this section also covers the emerging properties of the human organism system...

The Plant Science section of the journal Life publishes original research and timely review articles on all aspects of plant science, including both plant biology and engineering applications. The section aims to increase our knowledge of plant molecular biology, plant physiology, plant pathology, p...

This section of the journal Life aims to rapidly publish original contributions and reviews on all aspects of radiobiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that report significant advances in those fields. Topics include, but are not limited to, the f...

The Reproductive and Developmental Biology Section of the journal Life publishes peer-reviewed scientific and original articles/reviews on a broad range of topics in the field of Reproductive and developmental biology for both researchers and clinicians. This section ranges from the molecular biolo...

This is a new section that covers all aspects of synthetic biology and systems biology. It includes papers on experimental, theoretical and computational approaches dealing with the construction and the analysis of biological systems at all levels, from molecules and molecular networks to virus, or...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, moving from the experimental to the implementation phase in various fields, and has brought about disruptive transformations in academic research. To keep pace with the AI-driven paradigm shifts in the life sciences,...