Differentiation is a multidisciplinary journal dealing with topics relating to cell differentiation, development, cellular structure and function, and cancer. Differentiation of eukaryotes at the molecular level and the use of transgenic and targeted mutagenesis approaches to problems of differentiation are of particular interest to the journal.
The journal will publish full-length articles containing original work in any of these areas. We will also publish reviews and commentaries on topics of current interest.
The principal subject areas the journal covers are: 
• embryonic patterning and organogenesis 
• human development and congenital malformation 
• mechanisms of cell lineage commitment 
• tissue homeostasis and oncogenic transformation 
• establishment of cellular polarity 
• stem cell differentiation 
• cell reprogramming mechanisms 
• stability of the differentiated state 
• cell and tissue interactions in vivo and in vitro 
• signal transduction pathways in development and differentiation 
• carcinogenesis and cancer 
• mechanisms involved in cell growth and division especially relating to cancer 
• differentiation in regeneration and ageing 
• therapeutic applications of differentiation processes 

• Cell differentiation, functional specialization
• Dedifferentiation, transdifferentiation, plasticity
• Embryonic patterning, organogenesis
• Carcinogenesis, cancer
• Cell proliferation, especially relating to cancer
• Cell and tissue interactions, epigenetic regulation
• Signal transduction in development and differentiation
• Transgenic and targeted mutagenesis models of differentiation
• Plant cell differentiation
• Stem cell biology
• Evolutionary aspects of cell differentiation

Editor-in-Chief
Colin Stewart
Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore Email Colin Stewart
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Nadia Rosenthal
Jackson Laboratory - Farmington, Farmington, Connecticut, United States
Senior Editors
Gerald Cunha
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Christof Niehrs
Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Arial Zeng
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Editorial Advisory Board
Mick Bhatia
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Mina Bissell
E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States
Meinrad Busslinger
University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Blanche Capel
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Edward DeRobertis
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
HongKui Deng, PhD
Peking University Stem Cell Research Center, Beijing, China
Thomas Graf
Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Ole Isacson
McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Andreas Kispert
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Jan Kitajewski
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Birgit Lane
Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
Nicole Le Douarin
Neurobiology and Development, Gif sur Yvette, France
Mark Lewandoski
National Cancer Institute Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory, Rockville, Maryland, United States
Ana Martin-Villalba
German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Robert Maxson
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Cathy Mendelsohn
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Christine Mummery
Leiden University Medical Center Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Leiden, Netherlands
Daniele Noel
Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Hideyuki Okano
Keio University School of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine Department of Physiology, Shinjuku-Ku, Japan
Kenji Osafune
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Noriko Osumi
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Nori Satoh
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Marine Genomics Unit, Kunigami-gun, Japan
Robert Schulz
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
Jerry Shay
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States
Davor Solter
Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
Tung-Tien Sun
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New York, New York, United States
Azim Surani
Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yoshiko Takahashi
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Patrick Tam
Children's Medical Research Institute, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia
Reshma Taneja
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Cheryll Tickle
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Naoto Ueno
National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
Akihiro Umezawa, MD, PhD
National Center for Child Health and Development, Setagaya-Ku, Japan
Christine Wells
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Gen Yamada
Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom