Biological Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses diverse fields of experimental biology, such as biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cell biology, cancer, chemical biology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, marine biology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biology, physiology, stem cell research, structural biology and systems biology.

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Editor-in-Chief
Manuel J Santos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Associate Editors
Patricio Arce, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Verónica Cambiazo, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Bruce Cassels, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Ilona Concha, Universidad Austral of Chile, Chile
Mauricio González, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Christian Gonzalez-Billault, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Sergio Gonzalez-Bombardiere, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Rodrigo Iturriaga, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Lilian Jara, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Rosalba Lagos, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Luis Larrondo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Enrique Mejías, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile
Martin Montecinos, Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello de Chile, Chile 
Ricardo Moreno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Adrian G Palacios, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Juan Carlos Roa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Victoria Velarde, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Editorial Board
Philipe Bouven, Ecole Normale Superieure du Lyon, France 
Francisco Bozinovic, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Luonan Chen, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, China
Victor Cifuentes, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Gonzalo M Gajardo, Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile
Song Ge, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Joan Guinovart, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain 
Cecilia Hidalgo, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Tsuneo Imanaka, University of Toyama, Japan 
Nibaldo Inestrosa, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 
Jing-Yu Lang, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, China
Sergio Lavandero, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Lisette Leyton, Universidad de Chile, Chile 
Thiry Marc, University of Liege, Belgium 
Manuel Rieber, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela 
Jose Santos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Eugenio Spencer, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile 
Carlos Valenzuela, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Youli Xiao, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China