Aim and Scope

This journal will deliver original investigations in the broad fields of laboratory and clinical medicine to internists, pathologists and pediatricians in academic settings. Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary in scope, it keeps readers up-to-date on significant biomedical research from all subspecialties of internal medicine. Aiming to improve the exchange between basic and clinical science, it focuses on research in the area generally termed ?translational medicine?. It encourages submission of studies describing preclinical research with potential for application to human disease, and studies describing research obtained from preliminary human experimentation with potential to refine the understanding of biological principles underpinning human disease.