Molecular Cell aims to publish the best in molecular biology and beyond. In addition to fundamental cellular processes, we are interested in papers that show how molecular biology can be used to go beyond basic mechanisms to discover new biology, understand diseases, and to create new tools. Topic areas of interest include (but are not necessarily limited to): The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - relating to the transmission of information between DNA, RNA, and proteins Cellular homeostasis - relating to turnover of proteins and organelles, mechanisms of cell death, cell fate, signaling, innate immunity, metabolism, and infection Tools for studying the above processes including - omics, genome editing, structural biology, microscopy, as well as AI, machine learning, and other computational approaches Understanding how molecular mechanisms are rewired or go awry in contexts such as cancer, metabolic disease, neurodegeneration, and aging or in other contexts including plants and microbes