State-of-the-Art Molecular Biology in France

Dear Colleagues,

Like a highly resilient ecosystem, molecular biology research in France is masterfully resisting and still managing to produce exciting results in a very worrying financial and ideological context: the credits allocated to research are in free fall, and a 'Darwinian and unequal' research programme dictated by the CNRS presidency has recently provoked the indignation of a large part of the French scientific community. This Special Issue of IJMS is an opportunity to publish original results obtained by French teams in a context where the aphorism "publish or perish" is more relevant than ever. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that provide novel insights, new ideas and concepts that contribute to significant advances in the molecular biology. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Biological activities at the molecular level;
• Biological processes of cell functions and maintenance;
• Molecular processes of cell division, senescence, and cell death;
• Biomolecule interactions and cell-to-cell communication;
• DNA and RNA biosynthesis, metabolism, interactions, and functions;
• Protein biosynthesis, degradation, and functions;
• Molecular mechanisms and models of disease;
• Molecular processes of cell and organelle dynamics;
• Gene functions, genetics, and genomics;
• Signaling networks and system biology;
• Protein structure and function;
• Molecular mechanisms of reproduction and differentiation;
• Molecular mechanisms of drugs and small molecules;
• Molecular and medical bioinformatics;
• Molecular methodologies and imaging techniques;
• Marine molecular ecology and metagenomics.

Dr. Youri Timsit
Guest Editor

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