A Special Supplement Issue on MBL: Why?

Why a Special Issue on Gene Therapy?

Going both from the organism to the DNA and from the DNA to the organism, the biology of the 20th century has paved the way for a new type of biologist who has emerged from the laboratory during the last two decades: the gene therapist. At the beginning of the nineties, much of this young field was based on a relatively simple concept: a deficient function can be replaced with an artificial gen...

Why a special issue of JIDC on enteric fever?

The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries (JIDC) was started as a vehicle to promote the work of developing country scientists and to enable research in the less affluent regions of the world. This issue of JIDC is focused on enteric fever, a disease seen predominantly in developing countries. The idea came out of discussions through the open forum, the Salmonella network, and at editori...

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A special issue on nanotoxicology

Recently, our partner journal Archives of Toxicology published a special issue addressing the key questions in nanotoxicology (Weiss and Diabaté, 2011). The number of commercially available nanomaterials is rapidly growing. Thus, one aspect of nanotoxicology is the unintended exposure to nanomaterials. Pharmaceutical nanoproducts have been introduced for diagnostics, drug delivery or cancer tre...

A special issue on tobacco.

Tobacco use remains one of the greatest challenges to global health and is accepted as a major contributor to the rise in cancer incidence and mortality in the past century. Despite substantial knowledge about the harms conferred by tobacco in its various forms, recent changes in tobacco product development, marketing, and usage have changed the landscape in which tobacco research is operating....