Editorial: Biotechnology Journal - A Progress Report

Editorial overview: Food biotechnology.

Recent and ongoing developments in the area of food biotechnology could help us meet at least some of these challenges: Among many other topics, current efforts include the development of plants having an enhanced nutritional value or the design and construction of microbial strains for the environmental-friendly production of food and feed additives, such as flavors, colorants, amino acids and...

Editorial overview: energy biotechnology.

The world population of approx. 7.1 billion will grow by 17–54% by 2050. The world economy in 2050 will be four times larger than today and is projected to need 80% more energy in 2050. And, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are on track to increase by 50%, primarily due to growth in energy-related CO2 emissions. The current boom in petroleum resources extracted by enhanced hydrocarbon reco...

The evolution of a distinguished neuroscience journal: a progress report.

IN JULY 2014, A ROTATION of the Journal of Neurophysiology editors occurred. The new editorial team introduced a number of initiatives aimed at increasing the submission of highquality manuscripts to the Journal. Those initiatives included: 1) a new manuscript type, Rapid Reports: complete but short papers with expedited peer review and publication. 2) Addition of the tagline “a multidisciplina...

Health care innovation: progress report and focus on biotechnology.

Funding for biomedical research has shifted from government to the private sector. One reason is rapid expansion in the number and strength of U.S. biotechnology companies, which collectively spend more than $6 billion a year on biomedical research. Most of these companies are not yet profitable and therefore depend on flows of capital from private investors, Wall Street, and large pharmaceutic...

Editorial Note: Past Report and Future Direction for Iranian Journal of Management Studies