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RNA Biology in Health and Disease

Edited by:
Zhi-Ming Zheng, PhD, The US National Cancer Institute, United States
Yi Lin, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Xiang-Dong Fu, PhD, Westlake University, China

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 30 June 2025


Cell & Bioscience is calling for submissions to our Collection on RNA Biology in Health and Disease. This Collection aims to publish papers about the current status of RNA biology in development, pathogen infections, pathogenesis, carcinogenesis, RNA-based disease prevention and RNA-targeted clinical therapies.

About the Collection

Cell & Bioscience is calling for submissions to our Collection on RNA Biology in Health and Disease. RNA biology has emerged as one of the most influential areas in modern biology and biomedicine. The discovery of numerous new classes of RNAs and their functions in a wide spectrum of biological processes has revolutionized molecular biology, with profound implications for clinical sciences. RNA vaccines and RNA therapeutic applications have been two astonishing and fascinating directions in the modern biomedical world.

This Collection offers the opportunity to publish outstanding observations, reviews, and commentaries about the current status of RNA biology in development, pathogen infections, pathogenesis, carcinogenesis, and RNA-based disease prevention and RNA-targeted clinical therapies. Specific topics also include:

1. RNA from birth to death

- Transcriptional regulation
- Pre-mRNA processing (capping, splicing, and polyadenylation)
- Subcellular RNA trafficking and localization
- RNA modifications
- RNA folding and structure
- RNA stability and degradation

2. RNA functions 

- Function of noncoding RNAs
- RNA translation
- RNA-protein and RNA-RNA interactions
- Phase separation and RNA granules 

3. RNA viruses

- Disease-causing mechanisms
- Functional interplays with innate immunity

4. New RNA technologies

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submissions of Research and Review Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via Editorial Manager. Please select the appropriate Collection title “RNA Biology in Health and Disease" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.