Vita publishes exceptional, high-impact research dedicated to advancing knowledge across all areas of life and biomedical sciences. Such research either delivers crucial conceptual advances for understanding intriguing, significant biological questions or presents disruptive technological, translational, or clinical breakthroughs. Vita is an open access journal and maintains a fully international authorship and readership, with a broad scope spanning both basic mechanistic research and translational explorations, including but not limited to biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, clinical sciences, genetics and biotechnology.