New Biotechnology is an official journal of the European Federation of Biotechnology(EFB) and Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB). A bimonthly publication, it covers both the science of biotechnology and its surrounding business and financial milieu. The journal publishes peer-reviewed basic research papers, authoritative reviews, feature articles, and opinions in all areas of biotechnology. It reflects the full diversity of current biotechnology science, particularly those advances in research and practice that offer opportunities for exploitation of knowledge, commercially or otherwise, together with discussion and comment on broader issues of general interest and concern. The outlook is fully international.

The scope of the journal includes the research, industrial, and commercial aspects of biotechnology, in areas including health care and pharmaceuticals, immunotherapy and diagnostics, biofuels, genetic engineering, genomics, synthetic biology, molecular technologies, environmental biotechnology, biobased materials, nanotechnology, food and agriculture, biocatalysis, bioremediation, process engineering, bioinformatics and databases, and digital technologies and artificial intelligence, where they relate to biotechnology.

research and mini-review 

Editor-in-Chief
Mike Taussig
Cambridge Protein Arrays Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Editorial Assistant
Claudia Fonseca
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Consulting Editors
Klaus Ammann
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Roland Wohlgemuth
Sigma-Aldrich Chemie GmbH, Buchs, Switzerland
Editorial Board Members
F. Aulenta
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Inst. (IRSA), Italy
D. Beauregard
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
P. Bergquist
Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
B.C. Bundy
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
T.M.S. Chang
McGill University Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre, Québec, Quebec, Canada
E. Chantelot
Takeda Belgium sca, Diegem, Belgium
P.F.X. Corvini
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland
F. Desiere
F Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland
S. Dübel
Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany
F. Fava
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
P. Ferrer Alegre
Autonomous University of Barcelona Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, Bellaterra, Spain
J. Gressel
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
K. Hilden
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
J. Hoheisel
German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
L.L. Ilag
Patrys Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
K. Inouye
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
N. Kalogerakis
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
M. Koller
University of Graz, Graz, Austria
U. Landegren
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
A. Lawen
Monash University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clayton, Australia
P. Lens
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
F. Lescai
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
L. Li
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
A.S. Meyer
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
P. Mohr
The University of Adelaide School of Psychology, Adelaide, Australia
J.H. Ng
CSIRO Human Life Sciences Precinct Parkville, Parkville, Australia
M. Nilsson
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
A. Plückthun
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
V. Romano-Spica
Italian University of Sport and Movement Rome, Roma, Italy
M. Uhlen
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
M. Van Montagu
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium