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Advancing the Fast-Paced Field Of Stem Cell Research

STEM CELLS Increases from 6 to 10 Issues in Its 23rd Year of Publication

As STEM CELLS begins its 23rd year, we would like to take this time to thank our volunteer primary reviewers and Editorial Board members for their dedication and expertise in reviewing over 300 manuscripts in 2004 and our authors for helping advance the fast-paced field of stem cell research.

The journal has increased its Impact Factor, yet again, to 5.802; and almost doubled its pages published, with a 50% manuscript rejection rate.

Again thanks to our board members, reviewers, and authors, and also to our readers, STEM CELLS currently has one of the world’s most frequently read scientific Web-sites, averaging over 50,000 reader-visits and over 40,000 searches each week.

Two new features launched recently will benefit our readers:

• All figures in published articles are immediately downloadable into a PowerPoint format, with citations.
  
• STEM CELLS has started a new category of articles that will be a series of Experimental Protocols for Embryonic Stem Cells Research. This is meant to help speed effective research use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Articles in this series will include narrative details not found in protocol "handbooks," and they will update, discuss, synthesize, and hopefully help "demystify" relevant stem cell methodological information already published in books or review articles. We encourage you, our readers, to submit such "concise methods review articles" for this new series; please mention in your cover letter that your manuscript is targeted for this new section. We anticipate that topics might include the following, but we are open to your additional thoughts; the goal is to help make your high-level technological expertise more accessible to the stem cell research community:
  

1. preparation and characterization of stromal cell lines from various tissues and species that support embryonic and adult stem cell culture
   
2. use of vectors to express genes and RNAi in mouse and human ESCs
   
3. differentiation and characterization of specific tissue lineages from mouse and human ESCs
   
4. primary isolation and culture of ESCs from mouse and other species
   
5. nuclear transfer and parthenogenesis
   
6. pre-clinical issues, potentially including issues involved in obtaining approval from IRBs for laboratory or clinical research involving human embryos and ESCs.
   See:
   Introducing a "How-to" Guide to Embryonic
   Stem Cell Manipulation
   George Q. Daley
   STEM CELLS 2004; 22: 242[Free Full Text]
   Electroporation of Murine Embryonic Stem
   Cells: A Step-by-Step Guide
   Dennie M. Tompers, Patricia A. Labosky
   STEM CELLS 2004; 22: 243–249[Abstract/Free Full Text]
   

As we begin 2005, STEM CELLS would like to welcome our newest board members:

Martin Carroll Philadelphia,PA Kwang-Soo Kim Belmont,MA Sally Moody Washington,DC Dennis Roop Houston,TX Woo Suk Hwang Seoul,Republic of Korea Haifan Lin Durham,NC Shin-Yong Moon Seoul, Republic of Korea Jeffrey M. Rosen Houston,TX Pritinder Kaur Seattle,WA John W. McDonald St. Louis,MO Mahendra Rao Bethesda,MD Paul Simmons East Melbourne,Australia

We look forward to working together with all of you in 2005—another great year.

Curt I. Civin Editor-in-Chief

Senior Editors:

Alan M. Gewirtz Robert G. Hawley Margaret A. Goodell

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				L. Cheng Experimental Protocols Section Offers Expert Insights for Embryonic Stem Cell Researchers Stem Cells, March 1, 2005; 23(3): 297 - 298. [Full Text] [PDF]

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