Biology

Probiotics and Gut Microbiome-Prospects and Challenges

edited by Jiye Cheng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 179 | Submission Open

Keywords: probiotics; gut microbiome; microbiota; gut health; probiotic mechanisms; probiotic applications; probiotic challenges; probiotic formulation; probiotic delivery; microbiome-host interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)

2nd Edition of Computational Methods in Biology

edited by

Milan Toma

and Chi Wei Ong

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1950 | Submission Open

Keywords: computational biology; artificial intelligence; machine learning; bioinformatics; data analysis; genomics; proteomics; drug discovery systems biology; cancer research

(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)

Feeding Biology and Nutrition in Insects

edited by

Carlos A. Pascacio Villafán

and Christopher W. Weldon

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 482 | Submission Open

Keywords: diet; digestion; ecology; evolution; feeding; insects; mass-rearing; microbiome; nutrients; taste

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecology)

Cardiovascular Autonomic Function: From Bench to Bedside

edited by

Vera Geraldes

and

Isabel Rocha

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 28177 | Submission Open

Keywords: dysautonomia; heart rate variability; autonomic function testing; cardiovascular autonomic function; autonomic neuroscience; syncope; orthostatic hypotension; baroreflex

Structure, Function and Diversity of Gut Microbes in Animals

edited by

Priscilla Branchu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 17570 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbes; gut; function; structure; diversity; benefit; pathogenesis; dysbiosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbiology)

Innovative Biotechnologies for Advancing Protein Function Investigation

edited by Yongjuan Zhao, Wanhua Li and Qiwen Deng

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8064 | Submission Open

Keywords: protein imaging and visualization; high-throughput screening; computational methodologies; protein engineering; protein– protein interactions; protein– ligand interactions; biological mechanisms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biotechnology)

Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Response in Plants under Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Treatment (Volume II)

edited by

Costantino Paciolla

,

Alessandra Villani

and

Martina Loi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6783 | Submission Open

Keywords: antioxidants; bioactive compounds; biotic and abiotic stress; food quality; LED; nutrients; plant defense; plant response; productivity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)

Genetic Breeding and Reproduction of Aquatic Animals

edited by Dongmei Ma,

Huaping Zhu

,

Zaixuan Zhong

and Qingheng Wang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5890 | Submission Open

Keywords: genetic breeding; reproduction technology; gene; protein; molecular marker; trait; QTLs; molecular marker; fish; shrimp; crab; shellfish; aquatic animals; transcriptomics; proteomics; metabonomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive Biology)

Physiology and Pathophysiology of Skin

edited by Seon-Pil Jin

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3918 | Submission Open

Keywords: epidermal barrier; melanogenesis; wound healing; skin immunity; sensory perception; dermatitis; psoriasis; atopic dermatitis; autoimmune skin disorders; therapeutic approaches

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)

Extracellular Vesicles and Pathophysiology

edited by

Abdel Alli

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3113 | Submission Open

Keywords: extracellular vesicles; biomarkers; diagnostics; therapeutics; disease mechanism

Research Progress on Parasitic and Microbial Infection and Immunity

edited by

Julia González

and

Adela Oliva Chávez

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2906 | 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)

Pathophysiology of Hypertension and Related Diseases

edited by

Ingrid Prkačin

and

Tomislav Bulum

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2190 | 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)

Nutrition, Environment, and Fish Physiology

edited by

Quanquan Cao

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1844 | 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)

Bioavailability, Metabolism, and Health Effects of Phenolic Compounds

edited by

Davide Tagliazucchi

and Alice Cattivelli

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1727 | Submission Open

Keywords: phenolic compounds; gut microbiota; metabolism; cardiovascular diseases; cancer; anti-proliferative activity; bioavailability; bioaccessibility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

Pollination Biology

edited by

Yu Gao

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1715 | Submission Open

Keywords: conservation biology; insect diversity; pollinator-plant interactions; ecosystem service; pollinator insect

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecology)

Reproductive Management of Goats and Sheep

edited by

Yongjie Wan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1619 | Submission Open

Keywords: reproductive management; goats; sheep; breeding; physiology; production; biology; theriogenology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Reproductive 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 1362 | 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)

Epibiosis in Aquatic Environments

edited by

Marco Albano

and

Claudio D’Iglio

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1304 | 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

Tetsuo Tsukamoto

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1160 | 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)

Animal Models of Autoimmune Diseases

edited by Feng Zhu and Keqiang Chen

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 990 | Submission Open

Keywords: autoimmune disease; infection; innate immunity; inflammation; cancer risk; therapeutic target; adaptive immunity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)

Synaptic Function and Energy Use

edited by

Gen Ohtsuki

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 511 | 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)

Genomic Insights into Algal Adaptation and Conservation

edited by

Zhenbing Zheng

and Jun Qian

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 284 | 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 260 | 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 251 | 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)

Machine Learning in Biomedical Engineering

edited by Tao Huang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 222 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; biomedical engineering; digital twin; big data; cancer; drug

(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioinformatics)

Multi-omics Approaches in Agricultural Crops to Unravel Responses to Environmental Stresses and Advance Sustainable Agriculture

edited by

Vito Butardo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 208 | 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)

Cancer and Signalling: Targeting Cellular Pathways

edited by

Ahmed Elbediwy

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16172 | 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

Ludovic Dumont

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11904 | 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

Muyan Chen

and

Xiutang Yuan

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11592 | 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 Kačergius

, Audrius Gegeckas and

Renata Gudiukaité

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10659 | 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

edited by

Amilcare Barca

,

Marta Madaghiele

and

Stefania Scialla

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7233 | 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

Je-Hyun Yoon

and

Brett Keiper

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5841 | 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)

Advances in Biological Breast Cancer Research

edited by Anna Mart Engelbrecht,

Joji Mercier

and

Iman Van Den Bout

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5602 | 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)

Biology of Liver Diseases

edited by

Tadashi Namisaki

and

Hiroaki Takaya

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4581 | Submission Open

Keywords: viral hepatitis; alcoholic hepatitis; non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; autoimmune hepatitis; primary biliary cholangitis; liver cirrhosis; liver cancer; portal hypertension

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)

Genetic Resources and Gene Editing Tools for Plant Resistance: Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives

edited by

Ji-Hoon Lee

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3946 | Submission Open

Keywords: abiotic stress; biotic stress; crop improvement; genome editing; plant resistance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Science)

Ecophysiology and Environmental Health: Assessing the Impact of Pollutants on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

edited by

Renato Almeida Sarmento

, Maíra Ignacio Sarmento and

Carlos Gravato

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3197 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecophysiology; ecotoxicology; environmental health; pollutants; global change; one health; ecosystem functioning; plant ecophysiology; agricultural and forest crops

Discovering the Physiological Significance and Regulatory Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythm Generation

edited by Xiaodong Li

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1857 | Submission Open

Keywords: circadian rhythms; biological clocks; chromatin; transcription; histone; nucleosome; pausing; pause release

(This special issue belongs to the Section Genetics and Genomics)

Pathophysiology of Testis

edited by María Susana Theas,

Mónica Beatriz Frungieri

and María Noel Galardo

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1592 | Submission Open

Keywords: testis; infertility; aging; inflammation; spermatogenesis; steroidogenesis; energy balance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physiology)

Diet-Microbiota Impacts on Health

edited by Guilherme Zweig Rocha

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1553 | Submission Open

Keywords: intestinal microbiota; diet; inflammation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Immunology)

The Emerging Role of Mitochondria in Neurobiology

edited by

Filipe V. Duarte

and

Claudia Deus

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1503 | Submission Open

Keywords: mitochondrial dynamics; neurodegenerative diseases; neuronal bioenergetics; synaptic function; neurogenesis; neuronal plasticity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Neuroscience)

Circular RNA Biology and Roles in Diseases

edited by Nan Wu and

Sema Misir

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1421 | Submission Open

Keywords: RNA biology; diseases; circRNAs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

Proteomics and Human Diseases

edited by Lei Fang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1352 | 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)

Physiology of Lymph Vessels: Structure, Function and Modelling (Volume II)

edited by

Andrea Moriondo

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 413 | 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)

Unveiling Disease Molecular Signaling Pathways: Targeted Drug Discoveries for Pathway Modulation

edited by Stephen P. Wren

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 408 | Submission Open

Keywords: signaling molecules; disease mechanisms and pathways; small-molecule therapeutics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Biology)

Genetic Mechanisms in Archaea

edited by

Zhenfeng Zhang

and

Changyi Zhang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 384 | 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 300 | 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 274 | 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 223 | 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

Sorina Dinescu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 211 | 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)

Artificial Intelligence Research for Complex Biological Systems

edited by

Yong Chen

and Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 144 | 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)

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