Biology and life sciences

Cell Press is launching Cell Hose & Microbe, which will focus on the interactions between microbes and their hosts.

All papers in Plant Physiology by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) members are to be published with full open access.

HFSP Publishing is launching the HFSP Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences to foster communication between scientists publishing innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.

Thomson Pharma, the drug discovery and development information solution, has been enhanced with a new module that provides regulatory, legal and scientific information for development and registration of medicinal products and biologics.

Springer has begun publishing Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC), the official journal of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Springer and the Nano Research Society have announced a new partnership to publish Nanoscale Research Letters (NRL), one of the first nanotechnology journals from a major publisher to publish articles with open access.