Nature Cell Biology publishes papers of the highest quality from all areas of cell biology, encouraging those that shed light on the mechanisms underlying fundamental cell biological processes. The journal's scope is broad and specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Autophagy
-Cancer biology
-Cell adhesion and migration
-Cell cycle and growth
-Cell death
-Chromatin and epigenetics
-Cytoskeletal dynamics
-Developmental biology
-DNA replication and repair
-Mechanisms of human disease
-Mechanobiology
-Membrane traffic and dynamics
-Metabolism
-Nuclear organization and dynamics
-Organelle biology
-Proteolysis and quality control
-RNA biology
-Signal transduction
-Stem cell biology
