Acta Cell Biologica (ACB) publishes high-quality papers across the entire life sciences spectrum. The primary criterion for publication in ACB is new biological insight.

ACB publishes findings of unusual significance in any area of experimental biology, including but not limited to cell and molecular biology, genomics and genetics, metabolism, neuroscience, immunology, virology, microbiology, cancer, gene transfer and expression, systems biology, signaling, abiotic and biotic stress, and disease mechanisms and therapeutics. The basic criterion for considering papers is whether the results provide significant conceptual advances into, or raise provocative questions and hypotheses regarding, an interesting and important biological question. In addition to primary research articles in four formats, Cell features review and opinion articles on recent research advances and issues of interest to its broad readership in the leading-edge section.