Journal of Cell Science

Journal of Cell Science JCS publishes research and review-style articles that cover the complete range of topics in cell biology. More info: http://jcs.biologists.org/

13/02/2026

With the changes that have taken place in the social media landscape over the last couple of years, JCS has reviewed its presence on the different platforms, as well as the activity of our community members. In order to reach and engage with our community most effectively, we have decided not to post on our page any longer, but to focus our efforts on other platforms.

You can find us on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jcellsci.bsky.social), X (https://x.com/J_Cell_Sci) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cell_science_stories/). Our publisher, The Company of Biologists, also has accounts on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-company-of-biologists), Mastodon (https://biologists.social/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/).

And of course you can always visit our website https://journals.biologists.com/jcs to read the latest content or to sign up to content alerts or newsletters.

Our   is completeExplore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/20 Our cover image shows tracheal epithe...
04/11/2025

Our is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/20

Our cover image shows tracheal epithelial cells from an air-liquid interface culture imaged using U-ExM from Oliver Mercey and Marine Brunet.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/20/jcs264260/369650/Advances-in-high-resolution-imaging-of-centrioles

Also in Issue 20:
- Editorial from Pleasantine Mill and Lotte Pedersen
- Interviews with Keren Hilgendorf and Girish Ram Mali
- Perspectives on DNAAFs, patient engagement, ciliopathies and DynAPs
- Cilia signalling at a glance
- Strategies for multimodal profiling of phosphorylation in cilia
- Reviews on MIPs, ciliary proteomics, high resolution imaging and ciliary signalling

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/20

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the NucleusWe invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: ...
22/10/2025

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus. This issue will be guest edited by Abby Buchwalter, working alongside Academic Editor Megan King‬.‬‬‬‬

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nucleus

Issue 19 is completeExplore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/19Our cover image is of primary astro...
21/10/2025

Issue 19 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/19

Our cover image is of primary astrocytes with glial fibrillary acidic protein in red and DAPI in blue. See article by Rubio-Atonal et al: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/19/jcs263983/369430/Glutamate-decreases-oxidative-stress-and-lipid

Also in Issue 19:
- Research Highlights on astrocyte metabolism, plant cell division, the olfactory bulb and DCs
- Interview with Sandra Iden
- Remembering Béla Novák
- Active intracellular mechanics Review
- Models of s***m head-tail coupling

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/19

Issue 18 is completeExplore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/18Our cover image shows skin-resident...
08/10/2025

Issue 18 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/18

Our cover image shows skin-resident macrophages (white) migrating towards a scratch wound in epithelial cells (marked with α-catenin-Citrine, magenta) of a zebrafish skin explant. See article from Peterman et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/18/jcs264101/369226/Microtubules-regulate-tissue-level-navigation-in

Also in Issue 18:
- Research Highlights on cell migration, endocytosis & epithelia contractility
- Interview with Guillaume Thibault
- The integrin odyssey
- Essay on immune cell interactions
- Review on surface protein machineries in Gram-negative bacteria
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/18

Issue 17 is completeOur cover image shows a collection of individual desmosomes imaged using dSTORM. Each subimage repre...
16/09/2025

Issue 17 is complete

Our cover image shows a collection of individual desmosomes imaged using dSTORM. Each subimage represents a specific desmoplakin (DP) isoform tail domain (DPI, magenta; DPIa, cyan; and DPII, yellow). See article by Ainslie, Patel et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/17/jcs263906/369087/The-desmoplakin-tail-domain-position-in-the

Also in Issue 17:
- Research Highlights on desmoplakins, cell volume regulation, autophagy and polarised growth
- Interview with Lilian Kabeche
- Perspective on vesicular pseudopodia
- ‘First Persons’ through the decades
- Essay on The Company of Biologists & the BSCB
- Basement membranes at a glance

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/17

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus. This issue will...
15/09/2025

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus. This issue will be guest edited by Abby Buchwalter (University of California, San Francisco, USA), working alongside Academic Editor Megan King (Yale University, USA).

Issue 16 is completeExplore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/16 Our cover image is a scanning elec...
03/09/2025

Issue 16 is complete

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/16

Our cover image is a scanning electron micrograph showing macrophages after engulfing IgG-coated beads to their maximal capacity. See article from Fountain et al.

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/16/jcs263539/368999/Depletion-of-endomembrane-reservoirs-drives

Also in Issue 16:
- Research Highlights on phagocytosis, tight junctions and mitoribosomes
- Signalling and actin waves at a glance
- Hypothesis on energy deprivation in youth and old age

Issue 15 is completeOn the cover: 3D electron tomogram model of Trypanosoma cruzi showing the contractile vacuole comple...
18/08/2025

Issue 15 is complete

On the cover: 3D electron tomogram model of Trypanosoma cruzi showing the contractile vacuole complex (blue) with an adhesion plaque domain (red) & a membrane fusion pore. See article by Augusto et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/138/15/jcs263810/368816/The-adhesion-plaque-mediates-fluid-discharge-and

Also in Issue 15:
- Research Highlights on collective migration, CTLs & adhesion plaques
- Interview with Ian Ganley
- Essay from Martin Schwartz
- Opinion article on mechanosensitive ion channels
- Review on lipid transfer protein dimerisation

Explore our ToC: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/138/15

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