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Research Progress on Parasitic and Microbial Infection and Immunity submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1227 | Submission Open
Keywords: host; pathway; defense; innate immune responses; adaptive immune responses; pathogenicity; immune signalling; bacterial infection; viral infection; parasitic infection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
Biological Control of Vegetable Diseases and Bacterial Molecular Biology
edited by Lei Li and Xiaofeng Zhou
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1110 | Submission Open
Keywords: bacterial diseases in horticulture; plant growth-promoting bacteria; biological control of pathogens via antagonistic bacteria; genomic; transcriptomic; proteomics studies of antagonistic or pathogenic bacteria interactions; beneficial effects of bacteria on plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; pathogenic mechanism or biocontrol mechanism; volatile organic compounds; secondary metabolites
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Nutrition, Environment, and Fish Physiology
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1034 | Submission Open
Keywords: fish; physiology; nutrition; environment; effects   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 Chinese Never translate English Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Reproductive Management of Goats and Sheep
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1032 | Submission Open
Keywords: reproductive management; goats; sheep; breeding; physiology; production; biology; theriogenology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive Biology)
Epibiosis in Aquatic Environments submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1019 | Submission Open
Keywords: conservation; biodiversity; animals; aquatic environments; marine biology; marine zoology; marine ecology; radiation biology; interspecific interactions; evolution
B and T Cells in HIV and Other Viral Infections
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 791 | Submission Open
Keywords: B cells; T cells; adaptive immunity; humoral immunity; cellular immunity; mucosal immunity; anti-viral immunity; broadly neutralizing antibodies; vaccine; immunological memory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
Synaptic Function and Energy Use
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 456 | Submission Open
Keywords: presynapse; postsynapse; ATP; mitochondria; glia; pericyte; vasculature; fatty acids; ketone bodies; leptin; insulin; glucose; lactate
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Animal Models of Autoimmune Diseases
edited by Feng Zhu and Keqiang Chen
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open
Keywords: autoimmune disease; infection; innate immunity; inflammation; cancer risk; therapeutic target; adaptive immunity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Genomic Insights into Algal Adaptation and Conservation
edited by and Jun Qian
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open
Keywords: algae genome; genetic engineering; genome editing; environment adaption; algal application
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Recent Advances in Tumor Microenvironment Biology
edited by Hongbin Wang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 224 | Submission Open
Keywords: tumor microenvironment; immune cells’ stromal cells; extracellular matrix; angiogenesis; metabolic reprogramming; tumor-associated macrophages; tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes; cytokine signaling; therapeutic targeting strategies  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Stem Cells in Neurological Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities
edited by Ying Liu and Qi Lin Cao
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open
Keywords: stem cell research; neurological disorders; induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs); cell replacement therapy; gene editing in neurology; stem cell-derived exosomes; neuroregeneration; disease modeling; neuroprotective strategies; regenerative medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Multi-omics Approaches in Agricultural Crops to Unravel Responses to Environmental Stresses and Advance Sustainable Agriculture
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open
Keywords: plant functional genomics; environmental stress; climate change; crop yield; crop quality; nutritional properties; omics approaches; genomics; transcriptomics; proteomics; metabolomics; epigenomics; phenomics; stress-tolerant crops; breeding strategies; data integration; systems biology; sustainable agriculture; underutilized crops; orphan crops; beneficial microorganisms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Machine Learning in Biomedical Engineering
edited by Tao Huang
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; biomedical engineering; digital twin; big data; cancer; drug
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
Cancer and Signalling: Targeting Cellular Pathways
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12807 | Submission Open
Keywords: Hippo signalling; mechanotransduction; YAP; cancer; polarity; Rho GTPases; signalling; organ growth; extracellular matrix; integrins
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Male Disorders: Fertility Care and Support, Preservation and Restoration
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10151 | Submission Open
Keywords: cancer; fertility; cryopreservation; spermatozoa; testicular; in vitro spermatogenesis; cell transplantation; graft; male
(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive Biology)
Current Advances in Echinoderm Research
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10002 | Submission Open
Keywords: echinoderms; sea cucumbers; starfish; brittle stars; sea urchins
Recent Advances in Soil Health: Influences of Organic Carbon and Microbiota
edited by , Audrius Gegeckas and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8604 | 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)
Physiological and Pathophysiological Responses to Biomaterials 2.0: From Nano- to Microscale Effects and Interactions submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6856 | Submission Open
Keywords: extracellular stimuli and physiological responses; plasma membrane interface; cell– material interactions; tissue– material interactions; tissue engineering; biomaterials; biomedical devices; in vitro models and on-chip/microfluidic systems; bioreactors; structure– function relationship
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: The Dynamics of RNA–Protein Interactions
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5124 | Submission Open
Keywords: RNA-binding proteins; mRNA splicing; mRNA decay; mRNA translation; RNA localization; microRNAs; siRNAs; long noncoding RNAs; phase separation; RNA granules; membraneless organelles
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Genetic Resources and Gene Editing Tools for Plant Resistance: Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3546 | Submission Open
Keywords: abiotic stress; biotic stress; crop improvement; genome editing; plant resistance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Advances in Biological Breast Cancer Research
edited by Anna Mart Engelbrecht, and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3036 | Submission Open
Keywords: breast cancer; breast tumor; breast cancer cells; animal models; cell death; cancer diagnosis; cancer treatment; biomarkers; cancer microenvironment; carcinogens; estrogen receptor; molecular biology; cell biology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cancer Biology)
Ecophysiology and Environmental Health: Assessing the Impact of Pollutants on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
edited by , Maíra Ignacio Sarmento and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2675 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecophysiology; ecotoxicology; environmental health; pollutants; global change; one health; ecosystem functioning; plant ecophysiology; agricultural and forest crops
Pathophysiology of Testis
edited by María Susana Theas, and María Noel Galardo
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1426 | Submission Open
Keywords: testis; infertility; aging; inflammation; spermatogenesis; steroidogenesis; energy balance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Circular RNA Biology and Roles in Diseases
edited by Nan Wu and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1165 | Submission Open
Keywords: RNA biology; diseases; circRNAs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Diet-Microbiota Impacts on Health
edited by Guilherme Zweig Rocha
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 867 | Submission Open
Keywords: intestinal microbiota; diet; inflammation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
The Emerging Role of Mitochondria in Neurobiology submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 495 | Submission Open
Keywords: mitochondrial dynamics; neurodegenerative diseases; neuronal bioenergetics; synaptic function; neurogenesis; neuronal plasticity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Physiology of Lymph Vessels: Structure, Function and Modelling (Volume II)
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 382 | Submission Open
Keywords: lymphatic vessel; oedema; lymphatic muscle; spontaneous contractions; functional imaging; translational medicine; intrinsic pumping; extrinsic pumping; fluid homeostasis; numerical modelling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Genetic Mechanisms in Archaea submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 361 | Submission Open
Keywords: archaea; extrachromosomal genetic elements; chromosome structure; DNA replication; DNA repair; DNA recombination; transcription regulation; epigenetic regulation         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 French   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 French to Simplified Chinese Never translate French Never translate admin.mdpi.com
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)
Animal Models of Gastrointestinal Diseases
edited by Yan Hu
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open
Keywords: gastrointestinal diseases; animal models; digestive system; inflammatory bowel diseases; colorectal cancer; disease pathology; research methodologies; therapeutic interventions; clinical applications; translational research
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
Gene–Environment Interactions in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
edited by Alexander Shingleton
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open
Keywords: phenotypic plasticity; gene– environment interactions; genetic architecture of plasticity; mechanisms of phenotypic variation; anthropogenic stressors; evolution of plastic responses
(This special issue belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
Innate Immunity and Inflammatory Diseases
edited by Veera Ganesh Yerra, Santosh Reddy Sukka and Anil Kumar Kalvala
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open
Keywords: innate immunity; inflammation; immunotherapy; immune cells; inflammatory diseases
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Extracellular Vesicles: Biogenesis and Functions in the Complex Landscape of Differentiation and Disease
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open
Keywords: stem cell biology; stem cell differentiation; adipogenesis; neurogenesis; extracellular vesicles in stem cell differentiation; ncRNAs; tumor microenvironment; intercellular communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cell Biology)
Proteomics and Human Diseases
edited by Lei Fang
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open
Keywords: proteomics; clinical proteomics; human diseases; biomarker identification; therapeutic target; molecular mechanism; cancers; metabolic diseases; cardiovascular diseases; neurodegeneration diseases
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
Artificial Intelligence Research for Complex Biological Systems
edited by and Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning; generative artificial intelligence; bioinformatics; complex biological systems; cancer; neuroscience; next-generation sequencing; single-cell and bulk omics; genomics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
Neurobiology of Traumatic Brain Injury
edited by and Dimitrios A. Kazis
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: traumatic brain injury (TBI); neuroinflammation; neuroplasticity; neurodegeneration; molecular pathways; genetic factors; diagnostic tools; therapeutic strategies; rehabilitation techniques; chronic neurological conditions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)
Mitochondria: The Signaling Organelle
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2270 | Submission Open
Keywords: mitochondria; signal transduction; homeostasis; metabolism; apoptosis; redox biology; organelle communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Bird Biology and Conservation submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 796 | Submission Open
Keywords: avian conservation; ecological modeling; GIS; spatial ecology; telemetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Conservation Biology and Biodiversity)
Multi-omics Data Integration in Complex Diseases submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 25457 | Submission Open
Keywords: omics; disease; data integration; bioinformatics; genome
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)
Biology, Ecology and Management of Invasive Alien Plants
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10168 | Submission Open
Keywords: changes in the composition and distribution of alien plants; invasive mechanism; invasiveness; invasibility; invasive population; invasive plant interactions with other organisms; impacts on environment; ecosystem services and human health; chemical control; management of invasive plants; utilization of invasive plants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)
Biology, Ecology, Management and Conservation of Canidae
edited by Alberto Meriggi and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4140 | Submission Open
Keywords: Canidae; biology; ecology; management; conservation; ecosystem; habitats; niches; biodiversity; physiology; reproduction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Conservation Biology and Biodiversity)
Effects of Heavy Metals and Microplastics on Wetland Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
edited by Hualong Hong and Mohammad Belal Hossain
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4128 | Submission Open
Keywords: heavy metals; microplastics; wetland ecosystems; ecology; risk assessment; food chain; health risk; emerging contaminants; water and sediment contamination; ecosystem health; exposure; polythelene
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecology)
Neurogenetics of Behaviour submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2805 | Submission Open
Keywords: behaviour; genetics; molecules; species; brain; networks; health; disease
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Genomics)
Gut Immunity, Inflammation, and Allergy
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2658 | Submission Open
Keywords: gut immunity; inflammation; allergy; nutrients; therapeutic agents; molecular biology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)
Application of Metabolomics and Integrated Computing in Chemical Biology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2297 | Submission Open
Keywords: chemical biology; computational biology; metabolomics; computational modeling; new chemical entities (NCE); active pharmaceutical ingredients (API); characterization; metabolite profiling
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Obesity
edited by Yifei Kang
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1847 | Submission Open
Keywords: dietary intervention; alternative food; food supplementation; weight loss; weight management; obesity comorbidities; obesity pathophysiology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)
The Expression and/or Role of Glycoconjugates in Physiological and Pathological Conditions submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 736 | Submission Open
Keywords: glycobiology; glycoproteins; glycolipids; glycosyltransferases; glycoconjugates
AI Deep Learning Approach to Study Biological Questions (2nd Edition) submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open
Keywords: OpenCV; Mask RCNN; YOLO; U-Net; StarDist; ImageJ; MATLAB; image segmentation; image classification; locomotion trajectory analysis; volumetric prediction; plants; animals; protozoa; invertebrates; animal behavior; developmental biology; toxicology; zebrafish; medaka; daphnia
Computational Modeling of Drug Delivery
edited by and Arezoo M. Ardekani
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 151 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational modeling; drug delivery; computational fluid dynamics; biofluids; quantitative biotransport; mathematical models; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophysics)
Zoonotic Diseases submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: zoonoses; zoonotic agents; bacteria; viruses; fungi; protozoa; helminths
(This special issue belongs to the Section Infection Biology)
Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells
edited by , and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: drug resistance; mechanisms; cell growth; cell proliferation; efficacy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)
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