Journal Title：Biofactors

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.

BioFactors 是国际生物化学和分子生物学联盟的期刊，致力于快速发表关于健康和疾病实验生物学的非常重要的原创研究文章和评论。

“生物因子”一词是指调节生物功能的许多化合物。生物因素包括由生物体产生或修饰的许多分子，并存在于许多基本系统中，如血液、神经或免疫系统。生物因子的非详尽列表包括神经递质、细胞因子、趋化因子、激素、凝血因子、转录因子、信号分子、受体配体等等。在生物因子组中，我们可以容纳几种在体内未合成的经典分子，例如维生素、微量营养素或必需的微量元素。

为了与生物化学的这一统一观点保持一致，BioFactors 发表了关于识别新物质并阐明其在生物物理、生化、细胞和人类水平上的功能的研究，以及揭示已知生物因子新功能的研究。该杂志鼓励提交使用生物化学、生物物理学、细胞和分子生物学和/或细胞信号传导方法的研究。