Journal of Biological and Sustainability Sciences

Fundamental and applied investigation of biological organization from molecules and genes to cells, organisms and integrated omics systems.

• Molecular and cell biology; biochemistry; structural biology; cellular signalling and metabolic regulation
• Genetics, genomics, functional genomics, epigenetics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics
• Multi-omics integration, systems biology, developmental and reproductive biology
• Molecular evolution, comparative genomics, genome editing and CRISPR-based biological research

Microbial discovery and engineering translated into fermentation, industrial biotechnology, biocatalysis and sustainable biomanufacturing.

• Applied, industrial, food, agricultural and environmental microbiology; microbial diversity, physiology and ecology
• Bacterial, fungal and yeast biotechnology; microbial enzymes, metabolites, probiotics, biofilms and quorum sensing
• Fermentation technology, strain improvement, recombinant expression, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
• Bioprocess design, optimization, scale-up, downstream processing, enzyme technology and biocatalysis
• Biosensors, biomaterials, microbial products, biomanufacturing and bioresource or agro-waste valorization

Original and evidence-synthesis research across medicine, dentistry, disease biology, diagnostics, clinical and laboratory sciences, population health and One Health.

• Basic and translational medical sciences including anatomy, physiology, pathology, biochemistry, molecular medicine, genetics, immunology and hematology
• Clinical medicine and allied specialties including internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, dermatology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, anesthesiology, radiology, emergency and family medicine
• Dental and oral-health sciences including oral biology and pathology, periodontology, restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial sciences and dental public health
• Medical and clinical microbiology, infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, host-pathogen interactions and infection prevention
• Laboratory medicine, biomarkers, molecular diagnostics, imaging, clinical biochemistry and precision medicine
• Epidemiology, biostatistics, community and preventive medicine, nutrition, public health, health systems and disease surveillance
• Zoonoses, veterinary microbiology, environmental and occupational health, planetary health and integrated One Health surveillance

Quality requirement: Human, clinical and dental studies require appropriate ethics/IRB approval and informed consent where applicable, prospective trial registration when required, suitable reporting guidance, valid methods and statistics, and conclusions proportionate to the evidence.

Research spanning medicines discovery, formulation, delivery, analysis, biological activity, safety and evidence-based therapeutic development.

• Pharmaceutics, dosage forms, formulation, stability, controlled and targeted drug delivery, nanomedicine and biomaterials
• Pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug metabolism, bioavailability, pharmacogenomics and experimental therapeutics
• Toxicology, safety pharmacology, organ toxicity, adverse effects, therapeutic monitoring and preclinical evaluation
• Drug-target identification, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, lead discovery, optimization and structure-activity relationships
• Pharmaceutical analysis, chromatography, spectroscopy, method validation, quality control, impurity profiling and stability-indicating methods
• Pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, ethnopharmacology, medicinal plants, herbal medicines and bioactivity-guided natural-product discovery
• Biopharmaceuticals, biosimilars, vaccines, pharmaceutical biotechnology, manufacturing, quality by design and green pharmacy

Biological innovation supporting safe and nutritious food, resilient crops, productive soils, animal health and sustainable agricultural systems.

• Food biotechnology, food microbiology, fermentation, starter cultures, food enzymes and bioprocessed ingredients
• Functional foods, nutraceuticals, probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics and food bioactive compounds
• Food safety, pathogens, biopreservation, quality, shelf life, nutrition, nutrigenomics and sustainable processing
• Plant molecular biology, crop genetics and improvement, physiology, stress biology, plant pathology and diagnostics
• Soil and rhizosphere microbiology, plant-microbe interactions, biofertilizers, biopesticides and nutrient management
• Animal biotechnology, livestock and poultry sciences, veterinary diagnostics, vaccines, nutrition and aquaculture
• Agricultural and food-waste valorization, climate-resilient production and food-security research

Reproducible computational research that produces biologically or clinically meaningful insight and is supported by appropriate validation.

• Bioinformatics, computational biology, biological data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and integrative multi-omics
• Systems and network biology, structural bioinformatics, protein modelling, phylogenetics and metabolic modelling
• Computer-aided drug discovery, cheminformatics, pharmacoinformatics, computational pharmacology and toxicology
• Biomarker and disease prediction, precision-health informatics, biostatistics, epidemiological modelling, databases and reproducible software

Quality requirement: Routine docking, unvalidated prediction or software-output-only studies are normally unsuitable unless they address a meaningful scientific question and include rigorous benchmarking, interpretation and appropriate experimental or independent validation.

Biological technologies and health-relevant environmental research addressing pollution, exposure, resource recovery, renewable energy and conversion of waste into valuable products.

• Environmental microbiology, bioremediation, phytoremediation, biodegradation and ecological restoration
• Wastewater treatment, water, soil and air quality, contaminants, environmental toxicology and exposure-related health
• Biogas, biomethane, biohydrogen, bioethanol, biodiesel, anaerobic digestion and dark fermentation
• Algal and microbial biofuels, microbial electrochemistry, lignocellulose and lignin valorization
• Biorefineries, waste-to-resource systems, resource recovery, renewable biomaterials and circular biomanufacturing

Interdisciplinary research linking biological, health and technological knowledge with resilient, equitable and resource-efficient development.

• Biological sustainability, biodiversity, ecosystem resilience and nature-based solutions
• Circular economy, resource efficiency, life-cycle assessment and environmental-footprint analysis
• Climate-change mitigation and adaptation, renewable systems and resilient communities
• Sustainable agriculture, food systems, industry and the water-energy-food-health nexus
• Sustainability governance, responsible innovation, evidence-based policy and the Sustainable Development Goals