BioEssays

Overview

Aims and Scope

molecular – cellular – biomedical – physiology – translational research – systems - hypotheses encouraged

BioEssays is a review-and-discussion journal publishing novel insights, forward-looking reviews and commentaries in contemporary biology with a molecular, genetic, cellular, or physiological dimension. A further aim is to emphasise transdisciplinarity and integrative biology in the context of organismal studies, systems approaches, through to ecosystems where appropriate. The journal has three main sections: Insights & Perspectives (for ideas, hypotheses and commentaries), Prospects & Overviews (for review-style articles) and Reports & Opinion (for meeting reports, book reviews and letters to the Editor). The Prospects & Overviews section contains mini-reviews highlighting very recent research articles, and longer papers that present a field, its developments and prospects for a broad readership; we also welcome methods papers (including presentation of new model systems) under the rubric Methods, Models & Techniques. The journal's insightful analysis makes it essential reading for professional researchers (from basic research through to medically-related fields), as well as an invaluable tool for lecturers and students.

Mean time to first decision: 22 days

Affiliated with Epigenesis, the European Network of Excellence for epigenetics research.

Readership

Cellular and molecular biologists · developmental biologists · experimental biologists · geneticists · neuroscientists · biochemists · physiologists · anatomists · systems biologists · biomedical researchers and some clinicians

Keywords

molecular biology, cell biology, genomics and related -omics, systems biology, genetics, epigenetics, biomedicine, molecular medicine, translational science, applied science, biotechnology, synthetic biology, human biology, human genetics, neurosciences, evolution, developmental biology, evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), plant biology, microbiology, science communication, public perception of science, science education, journal, online journal, Wiley Online Library

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