BioFactors, a journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is devoted to the rapid publication of highly significant original research articles and reviews in experimental biology in health and disease.
The word “biofactors” refers to the many compounds that regulate biological functions. Biological factors comprise many molecules produced or modified by living organisms, and present in many essential systems like the blood, the nervous or immunological systems. A non-exhaustive list of biological factors includes neurotransmitters, cytokines, chemokines, hormones, coagulation factors, transcription factors, signaling molecules, receptor ligands and many more. In the group of biofactors we can accommodate several classical molecules not synthetized in the body such as vitamins, micronutrients or essential trace elements.
In keeping with this unified view of biochemistry, BioFactors publishes research dealing with the identification of new substances and the elucidation of their functions at the biophysical, biochemical, cellular and human level as well as studies revealing novel functions of already known biofactors. The journal encourages the submission of studies that use biochemistry, biophysics, cell and molecular biology and/or cell signaling approaches.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Aging
Bioenergetics
Cancer
Cardiovascular
Diabetes
Endocrinology
Food Science
Inflammation
Metabolism
Neuroscience
Nutrition
Polyphenolics

Research Communications
Short Reviews

Editor-in-Chief
Angelo Azzi - Tufts University, Boston, USA

Editorial Assistant
Yesim Negis - Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Editors
Patrizia Aducci – Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Paolo Ascenzi – Università di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
George Calin – The University of Texas, Houston, USA
Chung-Yen (Oliver) Chen – Tufts University, Boston, USA
Sang-Woon Choi – JM USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University, Boston, USA
Michael Davies – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Francesco Galli – University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Weimin Guo – Tufts University, Boston, USA
Lars-Oliver Klotz – University of Jena, Germany
Bato Korac – University of Belgrade, Serbia
Chao-Qiang Lai – United States Department of Agriculture, Boston, USA
João Laranjinha – University of Coimbra, Portugal
Hanjun Li – Duke University, Durham, USA
Mauro Maccarrone – University Campus Rome, Rome, Italy
Danny Manor – Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Elina Makarova - Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia
Salvador Moncada – University College London, London, UK
Yesim Negis – Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Steven O'Reilly – Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Patricia Oteiza – University of California, San Diego, USA
Letizia Palomba – University of Urbino, Italy
Giuseppe Poli – University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Gerald Rimbach – Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Helmut Sies – Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
Ling Tao – University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Theoharis Theoharides – Tufts University, Boston, USA
Giuseppe Valacchi – North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Haidi Yin – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Toshikazu Yoshikawa – Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Xian-Dong Wang – Tufts University, Boston, USA
Gary Williamson – University of Leeds, UK
Dayong Wu – Tufts University, Boston, USA
Jean-Marc Zingg – University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA