Open Life Sciences

MANUSCRIPTS

Open Life Sciences encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

All submissions must be made via online submission system Editorial Manager. In case of problems, please contact the Managing Editor of this journal (izabela.zarczynska@degruyter.com).

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts have to be written in MS Word. For your initial submission, we recommend you upload your entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. If you are invited to submit a revised manuscript, please provide us with individual files: an editable text and publication-quality figures.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors.

EDITORIAL POLICY

Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.

Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.

Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.

Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.

Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.

Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

　

Editor-in-Chief, Biomedical Sciences
Thomas Litman, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Associate Editor
Agata Rolnik, Medical University of Łódź

Managing Editor
Izabela Żarczyńska
Izabela.Zarczynska@degruyter.com

Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

Editors

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Genomics, pharmacogenomics
George Patrinos, University of Patras, Greece

Biochemistry
Anna Shestakova, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA
Marc Poirot, INSERM – Toulouse University, France
Marco Tutone, University of Palermo, Italy

Cell and Molecular Biology
Arnab Banerjee, Serampore College, India
Jingfei Chen, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China
Dorota Dymkowska, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland
Mark Wiser, Tulane University School of Public Health, USA

Stem Cells and Cell Therapy
Zvonimir Koporc, Croatian Catholic University, Croatia

Cancer Biology
Vladimir Jurisic, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Pavel Vodicka, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Lianwen Zhang, Mayo Clinic Molecular Medicine, USA
Mustafa Ozen, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Jarosław Paluszczak, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Neuroscience
Brian Adams, The Brain Institute of America, USA
Alexander Pisarchik, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Simon Podnar, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zhongjie Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Silvia Honda Takada, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Malik Zaben, Cardiff University, UK

Pharmaceutical Sciences
George Patrinos, University of Patras, Greece
Rabab Kamel, National Research Center, Egypt

Biophysics and Computational biology
Gang Tian, Southwest Medical University, China
Zhijia Xia, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Bioinformatics
Alexandre de Brevern, Paris Diderot University, France
Peixin Dong, Principle Investigator, Hokkaido University, Japan
Chen Li, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Virology
Malay Kumar Sannigrahi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paweł Zmora, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Metabolic hormones
Badicu Georgian, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

ANIMAL SCIENCES

Development and Differentiation
Michal Zurovec, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

Invertebrates and Vertebrates
Elena Mente, University of Thessaly, Greece

PLANT SCIENCES

Plant Genetics and Biotechnology
Maria Oszvald, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
Zheng Li, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mehdi Rahimi, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran
Barbara Tokarz, University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland

ECOLOGY and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Soil and water bioremediation, water productivity, water resources, halophyte-culture, drought-tolerant plants, salt-tolerant plants:
Ameneh Mianabadi, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran

Bioenergy - Biofuels and Biomass
Fabiano Avelino Gonçalves, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Systems Biology, Microbial Chemistry
Rui Miao, Uppsala University, Sweden

Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology
Abhishek Walia, College of Basic Sciences, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, India

Environmental Sciences and Engineering Research
Jeyaseelan Aravind, Dr. G. R. Damodaran College of Science, India

Bioengineering, Biofuels, Microbial Diversity
Maulin P Shah, Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Division of Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Enviro Technology Limited, India
Pradeep Verma, Central University of Rajasthan, India

Bioremediation, biomass waste management, sustainability
Riti Thapar Kapoor, Amity University Noida, India

FOOD SCIENCE and NUTRITION

Agro-environmental and food chemistry, sustainable food production, food quality and safety:
Jesus Simal-Gandara, University of Vigo, Spain

Bioactive Compounds, Functional Food, Food Waste Management
Przemysław Kowalczewski, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
Othmane Merah, Université de Toulouse, France

Selenium, Food Enzymes, Food Microbiology, Food Waste Management
Marek Kieliszek, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland

Food Metabolomics, Food By-Products, Food Bioactivity
Gerardo Alvarez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain

Food Safety, Pesticides, Contaminants
Barbara Socas, University of Lund, Sweden

Gut Microbiota, Fermented Foods, Probiotics
Lorenzo Nissen, University of Bologna, Italy
Marcin Schmidt, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland

BIOENGINEERING and BIOTECHNOLOGY

Micro- and nanoencapsulation, biodegradable polymers, biologically active compounds, polyphenols, flavonoids, drug delivery systems
Bartosz Tylkowski, Eurecat - Centro Tecnológico de Cataluny, Spain

Nanomechanics, Membrane Mechanics, Atomic Force Microscopy
Lorena Redondo-Morata, INSERM - Institut Pasteur de Lille, France

Nanoparticles, nanotechnology
Mohd Nurazzi Norizan, Department of Bioresource Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Ram Prasad, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, India

Biomedical Engineering
Heba Afify, Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt　　

Assistant Editors
Łukasz Arcimowicz, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Research Centre for Applied Molecular Oncology, Czech Republic
Jyoti Kant Choudhari, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India
Indrani Mukherjee, University of Miami, USA

Editorial Advisory Board
Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Sergey Y. Bershitsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Laszlo Buday, Semmelweis University School of Medicine, Hungary
Eulogio Castro Galiano, University of Jaen, Spain
Alexander B. Chetverin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Keith A. Crandall, George Washington University in Washington, DC
Olga Dontsova, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia
Petr Draber, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Mikhail S. Gelfand, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Eliane Gluckman, Hopital Saint-Louis, France
Yi Guan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tasuku Honjo, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Tim Hunt, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK
Miklos S.Z. Kellermayer , Pecs University Medical School, Hungary
Beom Soo Kim, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea
Stanislav S. Kolesnikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Oleg A. Krishtal, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Marie Lipoldova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Mark P. Mattson, National Institutes of Health, USA
Karen E. Nelson, The J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
Miklos Palkovits, National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Laurent Poirel, Hôpital de Bicetre, le Kremlin–Bicetre, France
Jaanus Remme, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu University, Estonia
Balazs Sarkadi, National Medical Center, Hungary
Joseph Schlessinger, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Vladimir P. Torchilin, Northeastern University, USA
Vladimir N. Uversky, University of South Florida College of Medicine, USA
Marc Van Montagu, Ghent University, Belgium

Publisher
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Editorial Contact
Izabela Żarczyńska
Izabela.Zarczynska@degruyter.com

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