《當代生物學》是一本綜合性的雜志，它出版生物學各個領域的原創研究，并設有廣泛而多樣的編輯部。該雜志的一個主要目的是促進生物學各領域的交流，既通過發表不同領域的普遍感興趣的重要發現，也通過明確旨在向非專業人士提供信息的高度可訪問的編輯文章。《當代生物學》發表論文，報告生物學中任何一個領域的發現，這些發現有足夠的理由引起人們的普遍興趣——例如，這可能是因為這一進展對某一特定領域很重要，或者因為生物學家普遍對這一領域具有廣泛的興趣。

Current Biology is a general journal that publishes original research across all areas of biology together with an extensive and varied set of editorial sections. A primary aim of the journal is to foster communication across fields of biology, both by publishing important findings of general interest from diverse fields and through highly accessible editorial articles that explicitly aim to inform non-specialists.Current Biology publishes papers reporting findings in any area of biology that have sufficient claim to be of general interest—this could be, for example, because the advance is important for a specific field, or because it is intrinsically of wide interest to biologists generally.