The journal captures the exciting science presented at the Biochemical Society Annual Symposium, Focused Meetings and Independent Meetings supported by the Society as a series of mini-reviews.

Prestigious Medal Lectures are published in the form of authoritative reviews of the Medallists' research areas, including the Heatley Medal Lecture from 2009 Nobel Laureate V. Ramakrishnan on ribosome structure.

Providing a timely snapshot of the latest developments across a range of topics in the cellular and molecular life sciences, the journal is an essential teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Impact Factor (2009): up to 3.378!

Honorary Editor: David J Richardson (UEA, Norwich) supported by an expert Advisory Panel.

The latest issue, Vol. 38(4), contains the Medal Lectures by Andrew Halestrap (on the role of mitochondria in reperfusion injury and cardioprotection) and B.A. Wallace (on synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy) together with the Focused Meetings 'Experimental Approaches to Protein-Protein Interactions', 'The Biology of Tau and its Role in Tauopathies', 'Revolutionizing Drug Discovery with Stem Cell Technology' and the Independent Meeting 'RNA UK 2010'.

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