3 Biotech publishes the results of the latest research related to the study and application of biotechnology to:

- Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- Agriculture
- The Environment

The focus on these three technology sectors recognizes that complete Biotechnology applications often require a combination of techniques. 3 Biotech not only presents the latest developments in biotechnology but also addresses the problems and benefits of integrating a variety of techniques for a particular application.3 Biotech appeals to scientists and engineers in both academia and industry focusing on the safe and efficient application of Biotechnology to Medicine, Agriculture and the Environment.

Articles from a huge variety of biotechnology applications are welcome including:

- Cancer and stem cell research
- Genetic engineering and cloning
- Bioremediation and biodegradation
- Bioinformatics and system biology
- Biomarkers and biosensors
- Biodiversity and biodiscovery
- Biorobotics and biotoxins
- Analytical biotechnology and the human genome

3 Biotech accepts original and review articles as well as short research reports, protocols and methods, notes to the editor, letters to the editor and book reviews for publication. Up to date topical review articles will also be considered. All the manuscripts are peer-reviewed for scientific quality and acceptance.

3 Biotech has recently received its first Impact Factor and is now covered by a range of A&I services, including:

- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
- Biological Abstracts
- BIOSIS Previews

3 Biotech publishes under the Continuous Article Publishing (CAP) in which accepted papers are published online with volume and article numbers shortly after receipt of authors proofs. CAP aims to speed up the process from acceptance of articles to final publication without the need for articles to be placed in a waiting line. This will ensure that all articles in 3 Biotech are immediately available for researchers in relevant indexing and abstracting databases.

EXECUTIVE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Bharat Patel (Microbial Biotechnology & Genomics, Extremophiles)
School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
E-mail: bharat.patel@qut.edu.au, bharatgu19@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5332-1858

BIOMEDICAL / MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
List of Sectional Editors:
To be announced
List of Associate Editors:
Abdelilah Aboussekhra (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)Cancer Biology & Experimental Therapeutics
Ayodele A. Alaiya (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)Therapeutics & Biomarker Discovery for Clinical Applications
Waleed Al-Ghamdi (National Centre of Biotechnology at KACST, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)Proteomics & Protein Chemistry
Hanene Ali-Boucetta (College of Medical & Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK)Nanomedicine & Drug Delivery
Ghazi Alsbeih (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia) 
Radiobiology & Radiopathology
Katharine Sara Collison (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 
Diabetes Research
Bhavana J. Davé (Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics & Rehabilitation, University of Nebraska, USA) 
Human Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics
Christine Guglielmino (Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services, Australia)
Infectious Diseases
Muhammad M. Hammami (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia) Pharmacology, Toxicology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology
Sarwar Hashmi (Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA) 
Lipid Metabolic Disorders, Caenorhabditis elegans
Muralidhar L. Hegde (Institute for Academic Medicine Houston, Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA)
Genome Damage Response, DNA Repair, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases
Amy Jennison (Queensland Health Forensic & Scientific Services, Brisbane, Australia)
Public Health Microbiology, Infectious Diseases
Firdos Alam Khan (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia) 
Stem Cell Biology, Neurobiology
Lokesh Kori (ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, India)
Malaria Biology, Drugs & Vaccines, Protein & Structural Biology.
Pradeep Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Drug delivery, biomaterials, 3D printing, nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, molecular modeling
Alex McDougall (Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University, Paris, France)
Brian Meyer (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia)
Human Genetics
Ana Lúcia A. Segatto (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Genetica Porto Alegre, Brazil) 
Population Genetics, Molecular Phylogeny & Phylogeography
Faiyaz Shakeel (College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 
Nanoemulsions, Drug Delivery, Design, Synthesis & Evaluation of Bioactives
Yufei Shi (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology
Mohamed M. Shoukri (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia) 
Biostatistics
Sanjay Singh (Ahmadabad University, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India)
Nanomaterial Synthesis, Nanozymes with Applications in Biosensing & Targeted Drug Delivery

MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
List of Sectional Editors: To be announced
List of Associate Editors:
Iftikhar Ahmed (Bio-Resource Conservation Institute (BCI), NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan) Bacterial Systematics & Taxonomy, Microbial Diversity, Extremophiles, Biotechnology)
Indu Bhushan (School of Biotechnology, SMVD University, Jammu & Kashmir, India 
Lipase & Esterases
Jonas Contiero (Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", São Paulo, Brazil) 
Biosurfactants, Bioenergy, Enzyme Technology
Abhrajyoti Ghosh (Bose Institute, Kolkata, India)
Archaea, Microbial Genomics, Metagenomics & Microbial Biodiversity
M. Gil-Díaz (IMIDRA, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)
Soil Remediation
Tony Greene (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) 
Bioremediation, Extremophiles
Stefan Janecek (Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)Enzymes, Evolution
Rupam Kapoor (Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
Agriculturally Important Pathogenic & Symbiotic Fungi
Sunil K. Khare (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Enzymology, Nanobiotechnology, Proteomics
Yogender Pal Khasa (University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India)
Microbial biotechnology, bioprocess engineering, cloning and expression
Vinod Kumar (Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK)
Biochemical Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering
Long-Liu Lin (National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan)
Enzyme Biotechnology, Molecular Biology
Xiaobo Liu (School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Applied Microbiology, Biofilms & Biocatalysis, Biomass & Biofuels
Zhi-Qiang Liu (College of Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China 
Genetics engineering, synthetic biology, biocatalysis, biotransformation
Yanhe Ma (Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China) 
Microbial Diversity, Systematics & Taxonomy
Maszenan bin Abdul Majid (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Bioremediation, Wastewater Treatment, Biogranulation
Ashutosh Mittal (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA)
Biofuels, Enzyme Technology
Benjamin Yan Pui Moy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 
Biodegradation, Bioprocessing, Aerobic & Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
Prasun Mukherjee (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India) 
Plant Pathology
Phillip Pope (The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
Rumen Microbiology, Microbial Diversity, Next Generation Sequencing
Sehanat Prasongsuk (Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) 
Plant & Fungal Biotechnology, Plant Biomass Conversion.
Pramod Ramteke (Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology & Sciences, India) 
Bioremediation, Enzymes, Psychrophiles
Govind P. Rao (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India)
Plant Virology, Phytoplasmas, Plant-disease Interactions
Susana Rodriguez-Couto (Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain) 
Laccases, Biodegradation, Nanobiocatalyst
Pratyoosh Shukla (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India)
Synthetic & Systems Biology, Enzyme Technology, Bioinformatics
Raghuveer Singh (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
Fermentation technology, enzyme technology, metabolic engineering, analytical chemistry
Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan)
Ocean Biodiversity
Wen Shan Yew (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Synthetic Enzymology for Biomedical & Bioremediation Applications

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
List of Sectional Editors: To be announced
List of Associate Editors:
Parvaiz Ahmad (Department of Botany, S. P. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India) 
Plant Abiotic Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, Plant-microbe Interaction
Sandeep Arora (G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India)
Plant Oxidative Stress Biology, Nanobiotechnology
Ajaya Kumar Biswal (DOE-BioEnergy Science Center, The University of Georgia, USA) 
Plant Biomass, Biofuels, Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides
Lijun Chai (Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China) 
Plant Biotechnology, Plant Reproduction, Plant Germplasm Resources & Genetic Modification
Saikat Gantait (Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, Mohanpur, India)
Plant Tissue Culture, Seed / Germplasm, Conservation, Molecular Markers
Parvatam Giridhar (CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, India) 
Plant Tissue Culture, Secondary Metabolites, Molecular Biology, Food Formulations
Shirpa Gupta (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA) 
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Environmental Science
Zhongqi He (USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, USA)
Applied & Environmental Chemistry of Agricultural Products, By-products & Plant Nutrients
Rajeev Kumar (CE-CERT, University of California, USA)
Lignocellulosic Biomass Fractionation, Enzyme-substrate Interactions, Kinetics
Aung Htay Naing (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea) 
Plant Molecular Biology, Transcriptomics, Transgenic Plants
Sujay Paul (Departamento Regional de Bioingeniería, ITESM, Queretaro, Mexico)
Plant Genomics & Stress Responsive Genes, Microbial Genomics & Transcriptomics
Rituraj Purohit (CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, India) 
Computational Biology, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Dynamics
Ana Lucia Anversa Segatto (UniversidadeFederal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) 
Plant Biodiversity, Conservation

PUBLISHING EDITOR

Nabil Khélifi
Springer, Heidelberg, Germany
E-mail: Nabil.Khelifi@springer.com