Spotlight on China

Peter Shepherd chats with Tao Xu during our recent visit to China © - Institute of the Chinese Academy of Science

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to welcome you to this collection of papers, which is updated every issue with papers chosen by members of the Editorial Board to highlight the high-quality Chinese science published in the Biochemical Journal in recent years (2006-2009). Over the past 100 years, the Biochemical Journal, the flagship journal of the Biochemical Society established in 1906, has published many papers by eminent scientists that have made significant and lasting contributions to biochemical knowledge.

With far-sighted government support for research, the determination of Chinese investigators to become leaders in the biochemical, cellular and molecular sciences is clear to see. In recognition of this, we are delighted to welcome Professor Tao Xu (Institute of Biophysics, Beijing) as the Journal's first Vice-Chair of the Asia-Pacific region.

With our fast and fair peer-review process, and speedy publication process, your accepted manuscript could be online on the day of acceptance and the edited version of record could be online in as little as 9 weeks!

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Thank you for your interest,

Peter Shepherd (Auckland) Chair of the Editorial Board.