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Upcoming FEBS Letters Webinar: Phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates
FEBS Letters is pleased to announce we will be hosting a free webinar on phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates to be held on Wednesday October 21st 2026, 10:00 AM CEST. The webinar will feature talks by the issue's guest editors. This webinar is being organised to accompany our latest special issue on “Phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates—functions and cellular dynamics”, guest edited by Volker Haucke & Feng Rao.
From the Archive: Nagel et al., 1995.
FEBS Letters is pleased to share an article from our archive, which was recently cited in the Scientific Background to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Oct 09, 2026 Choose a social network to share with, or copy the URL to share elsewhere Share with... This is a representation of how your post may appear on social media.
Resolution Revolution—FEBS Letters' Cryo-Electron Microscopy Special Issue
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) revolutionized structural biology by enabling high-resolution imaging of biomolecules in their native state. This free special issue edited by Panagiotis L. Kastritis features 8 review articles that highlight how cryo-EM is moving beyond static structure determination toward understanding the dynamics, assembly, regulation, evolution, and cellular context of biomolecular complexes, increasingly supported by advanced computational and AI-driven methods.
Upcoming FEBS Letters Webinar: Circadian Clocks
FEBS Letters is pleased to announce we will be hosting a free webinar on circadian rhythms to be held on Thursday 25th June 2026 at 18:00 CEST. The webinar will be hosted by Carrie Partch and Emery Usher (University of California Santa Cruz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute), and will feature three short talks by experts in the field. This webinar is being organised to accompany our latest special issue on âCircadian clocksâ, guest edited by Carrie Partch.
It's About Time!—FEBS Letters' Circadian Rhythms Special Issue
Circadian rhythms coordinate biological timekeeping on a ~ 24-h timescale, aligning physiology and behavior with the daily solar cycle on Earth. This free special issue edited by Carrie Partch features 14 review articles focusing on the latest advances in our understanding of the molecular basis of circadian rhythms, their pervasive and powerful control of biology, and new frontiers in the field, including approaches to modulate biological timekeeping to improve human health.
Submit to FEBS Letters' 2026 Cover Contest!
For this contest, our emphasis is on authentic scientific data that is visually compelling and thought-provoking, rather than on artistic renderings, illustrations, or graphics.
Writing Contest: Celebrating Women in Science
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Patient Advocacy: The Lily Foundation is leading the fight against mitochondrial disease
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Scientists' Forum: Blueprints for the scientific society of the future
Since its founding in 1964, FEBS has grown to more than 30,000 members across 39 biochemistry and molecular biology societies in Europe and neighbouring regions, providing a platform for scientific exchange. FEBS Letters celebrated FEBS's 60th anniversary in 2024 with a writing contest focused on participants' visions of scientific societies in the future.
Scientists' Forum: 5 Problems Plaguing Bioscience Publishing
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Special Issue on Redox Medicine
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Reducing plastic waste in the lab: saving the planet-and money
As scientists, we should always be motivated to optimise our experiments, and such optimisation should include determining the minimum amount of time and resources required to reach the expected outcome. Eliminating unnecessary steps and resources also has the additional benefit of saving costs, as well as reducing the amount of waste.
Graphical Reviews: Illustrating Biochemistry
If it’s a long worn-out cliché, it’s only because it’s true: a picture really is worth a thousand words. It was in this spirit that FEBS Letters established ‘Graphical Reviews’ as a new and citable article type in 2022. You can browse all of the Graphical Reviews published in our Graphical Review Gallery. They cover topics as diverse as circadian rhythms, lipid droplets, autophagy, and much more.
Special Issue on Lipid droplets: Metabolic hubs in health and disease
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How to give a great speed talk Original
So, your abstract has been selected for a speed talk: Congratulations! A speed talk is the ultimate elevator pitch, delivered to (one hopes) far more people than could be squeezed into the average elevator! (Or lift, if you prefer British English.) Speed talks are, by definition, only a few minutes long (with the duration decided by the event), and so it may seem that they would be far easier to prepare than a longer talk; surely you could easily talk about your research for 3 minutes without...
Special Issue on Autophagy: From yeast to humans
Thirty years ago, FEBS Letters published Nobel-winning work by Yoshinori Ohsumi and colleagues identifying the first yeast autophagy genes [1]. Our latest Special Issue, guest-edited by Tassoula Proikas-Cezanne (University of Tübingen) and Michael Thumm (University of Göttingen), features twelve Reviews that detail subsequent developments in the field and highlight current findings in relation to the molecular and functional understanding of autophagy.
FEBS 60th anniversary Writing Contest
Sixty years ago, most scientific endeavours were isolated projects carried out in single labs, with rare collaborations taking place between trusted colleagues and neighbours. While many countries had a national biochemical society through which local biochemists could share their findings, developments in technology, communication, and transportation were rapidly creating a world in which national boundaries were too tight for scientific exchange.
FEBS Press journals join Review Commons
We are pleased to announce that the four FEBS Press journals – The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, Molecular Oncology and FEBS Open Bio – have now joined Review Commons, a preprint peer review platform which offers authors a peer review service ahead of submitting the paper to a journal.
Special issues on the nuclear envelope and the nuclear pore complex
The signature organelle of eukaryotic cells is the cell nucleus, which houses the genome and serves as the site of DNA and RNA synthesis, transcription, processing, and repair, as well as ribosome biogenesis. The nucleus is bound by a double membrane called the nuclear envelope (NE).
Rethinking sustainability in scientific research
Sustainability is often misunderstood by scientists, argue Patrick Penndorf and Johannes Jabs in a new Scientists' Forum article for FEBS Letters. According to Penndorf and Jabs, who co-founded the ReAdvance initiative, sustainability is not merely a trade-off to reduce climate change but an opportunity to optimise and improve scientific practice by making protocols and experiments more efficient, impactful and purposeful.
Scientists' Forum: "What do women in science need?"
'The world needs science, and science needs women,' says UNESCO. What do women in science need? Despite great progress in recent years, writes FEBS Letters Reviews Editor Lavinia Arseni in this Scientists' Forum article following an International Women's Day panel with 5 outstanding female scientists, gender equity in science is still missing. Women are underrepresented in senior/leadership positions and struggle to be funded and awarded.
Breaking the silence around academic harassment
Academic harassment is a serious, yet unresolved, issue that not only affects targets (e.g. students, postdocs and faculties of various ranks) but also the people around them and even the scientific community as a whole. There is often staunch defence and protection of harassers, mainly because of the federal grant, industry and foundation funding that is usually drawn in by the harassers.
The future in an RNA molecule: from mRNA vaccines to therapeutics - An interview with Drew Weissman
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented state of emergency, during which medical doctors struggled to save lives, and scientists worked feverishly to study the virus, identify effective drugs or develop vaccines in record time. Several different approaches to vaccine production were used, some of which were traditional and others quite innovative.
The FEBS Congress - Ljubljana Virtual Issue
The 45th FEBS Congress, due to take place in Ljubljana in July 2020, was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. Writing of the Reviews for the traditional FEBS Letters Congress Special Issuewas well under way when the pandemic changed everyone's plans.
Sharing biological data: why, when, and how
Samantha L. Wilson,Gregory P. Way, Wout Bittremieux, Jean‐Paul Armache, Melissa A. Haendel, Michael M. Hoffman Data sharing is an essential element of the scientific method, imperative to ensure transparency and reproducibility. Researchers often reuse shared data for meta‐analyses or to accompany new data. Different areas of research collect fundamentally different types of data, such as tabular data, sequence data, and image data.
Methylation of Na+ channels in cardiac cells - the mechanism behind sudden death
Sudden cardiac death kills approximately 40,000 young (<50 years of age) people every year in Europe. Genetic analyses can explain the majority of these cases, but not all. We are interested in post-translational modifications (PTMs) of cardiac proteins and their role in cardiac and cardiovascular disease, including sudden cardiac death in the young.
Microbes and Complement Special Issue
Seppo Meri and Hanna Jarva Complement as part of both the innate and adaptive immune systems plays a central role in our defense against infections. Although its antimicrobial effects have been known for well over 100 years, its significance for boosting our immunity against pathogens has been relatively neglected. It has become apparent only recently that one of the major characteristics of a pathogenic microbe is that it can escape complement attack.
Soy-based protein boosts hunger hormone and stimulates appetite
Researchers have discovered a protein that stimulates secretion of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone produced in the stomach. When fed to mice, the protein, called soy-ghretropin, increased blood levels of ghrelin and boosted their appetite. The findings, which are published in FEBS Letters, suggest that soy-ghretropin may be developed for elderly people or anorexic patients whose ghrelin levels and food intake are reduced.
New method helps diagnose neurological disorder that requires early treatment
Researchers have developed a quick and simple method for measuring bile acids in biological fluids that can be used to rapidly diagnosis a severe fat storage disorder that can lead to liver disease in infancy and neurological dysfunction starting in childhood or early adult life. Early diagnosis and treatment of the disorder, called Niemann-Pick disease type C, are critical to limit neurological damage.
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