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《自然化學(xué)生物學(xué)》是一份國際性月刊，為化學(xué)生物學(xué)領(lǐng)域的頂級(jí)原創(chuàng)研究和評(píng)論提供了一個(gè)高知名度的論壇。化學(xué)生物學(xué)結(jié)合了化學(xué)、生物學(xué)和相關(guān)學(xué)科的科學(xué)思想和方法，以分子精度理解和操作生物系統(tǒng)。該雜志發(fā)表的論文來自不斷擴(kuò)大的化學(xué)生物學(xué)家群體，包括將化學(xué)原理和工具應(yīng)用于生物問題的化學(xué)家，以及對(duì)理解和控制分子水平的生物過程感興趣的生物學(xué)家的貢獻(xiàn)。我們優(yōu)先考慮在化學(xué)和生物學(xué)交叉的任何領(lǐng)域報(bào)告重大概念或?qū)嶋H進(jìn)展的研究。該雜志主要對(duì)基礎(chǔ)研究感興趣，特別是那些報(bào)告了新的化學(xué)或生物工具或?qū)χС稚镞^程的機(jī)制提出重要的新分子水平見解的研究。此外，由于化學(xué)生物學(xué)方法在操作或工程生物系統(tǒng)方面具有廣泛的用途，該雜志還考慮了在化學(xué)-生物界面上描述應(yīng)用分子研究的手稿。獨(dú)立于科學(xué)領(lǐng)域，我們尋求以新的方式將化學(xué)和生物學(xué)結(jié)合起來的手稿，特別是那些提供了可能在該領(lǐng)域開辟創(chuàng)新研究途徑的重大概念或方法進(jìn)步的手稿。該雜志力求一個(gè)公平而全面的審查過程，強(qiáng)調(diào)嚴(yán)格的化學(xué)和生物特性。除了發(fā)表原創(chuàng)研究成果，《自然化學(xué)生物學(xué)》還為化學(xué)和生命科學(xué)領(lǐng)域的科學(xué)家提供了一個(gè)交流思想的論壇，并為這一新興領(lǐng)域提供了社區(qū)資源。為此，我們出版的內(nèi)容包括學(xué)術(shù)評(píng)論和觀點(diǎn)，在我們的網(wǎng)頁和其他期刊上發(fā)表的研究重點(diǎn)，通信和評(píng)論，呈現(xiàn)科學(xué)和社區(qū)感興趣的主題。