The first Advance Articles for new journal Metallomics: Integrated biometal science are now freely available online, offering scientists an eagerly anticipated new resource linking the research fields related to biometals.

In a landmark new paper, Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues in Japan investigate the effect of vanadium(IV) compounds on glucose lowering activity and gene expression in diabetic mice, and identify a potential new candidate for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Philip Doble, together with colleagues at Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, US), the University of Technology Sydney and the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria (Australia), discusses quantitative elemental bioimaging in Parkinsonian mouse models. 

The article list also includes a paper from the research group of Joseph Caruso, chair of the Metallomics Editorial Board, on the cytotoxicity of chemical warfare degradation products, while Hongzhe Sun and colleagues from the University of Hong Kong review the identification and characterization of metallodrug binding proteins by (metallo)proteomics. The list is completed by Yasumitsu  Ogra et al.  at Chiba University, Japan, who look at selenomethionine metabolite speciation in wheat germ extract. 

To view all the articles click on the 'Advance Articles' link in the journal navigation panel. 

 

About Metallomics

Metallomics is one of two new journals to join RSC Publishing's prestigious portfolio. The first issues of both Metallomics and Integrative Biology, a new journal covering the quantitative biosciences, will be published online in January 2009, and will be freely available to all web users. Institutional online access to all 2009 and 2010 content will be free following a simple registration process. Readers will also benefit from enhanced HTML articles via the award winning RSC Prospect  (including structure and sub-structure searching,hyperlinked compound information and many more useful features).   

News of the debut of Metallomics has been enthusiastically welcomed by the scientific community, which has embraced the launch of a dedicated subject journal. 

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