Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced a partnership with the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society in publishing the open access journal Genes and Environment. Takashi Yagi from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief.
Genes and Environment has been running since 2006 on the J-STAGE platform and has been published by the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society as the society's official journal. This title has the aim of accelerating communications among global scientists working in the field of genes and environment.
Topics published in the journal include mutagenesis and anti-mutagenesis; genotoxicity; DNA damage; water and air pollution; pharmaceuticals and anticancer agents; radiation; indirect mutagenesis; DNA methylation and chemoprevention of cancer.
