Table of Contents
Volume 16 Issue 4
Volume 16 Issue 2-3
Volume 16 Issue 1
Volume 15 Issue 4
Volume 15 Issue 3
Volume 15 Issue 2
Volume 15 Issue 1
Volume 14 Issue 4
Volume 14 Issue 3
Volume 14 Issue 2
Volume 14 Issue 1
Volume 13 Issue 4
Volume 13 Issue 3
Volume 13 Issue 2
Volume 13 Issue 1
Volume 12 Issue 4
Volume 12 Issue 3
Volume 12 Issue 2
Volume 12 Issue 1
Volume 11 Issue 4
Volume 11 Issue 3
Volume 11 Issue 2
Volume 11 Issue 1
Volume 10 Issue 4
Volume 10 Issue 3
Volume 10 Issue 2
Volume 10 Issue 1
Volume 9 Issue 4
Volume 9 Issue 3
Volume 9 Issue 2
Volume 9 Issue 1
Volume 7 Issue 3
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Prasad S. Koka
Professor, Stem Cell Biology
Biomedical Research Institute of Southern California
Oceanside, California, USA
E-mail: scintbnova@gmail.com
Featured Scientific Article by Dr. Prasad S. Koka
“Biomarker Discovery and Biotherapeutics Applications of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Bioluminescence Light-Emitting Chromophore-Protein Complexes in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine”
This article is available via Open Access: “Biomarker Discovery and Biotherapeutics Applications of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Bioluminescence Light-Emitting Chromophore-Protein Complexes in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine”
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Dr. Inger Birgitta Sundell-Ranby
Department of Anthropology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
E-mail: du2557@wayne.edu
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Richard K. Burt
Division of Immunotherapy, Department of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, USA
E-mail: rburt@northwestern.edu
Dr. Connie J. Eaves
Terry Fox Laboratory
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
E-mail: ceaves@bccancer.bc.ca
Dr. Ahmed El-Hashash
Biomedicine, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
University of Edinburgh-ZJU Institute
Haining, Zhejiang, China
E-mail: hashash05@yahoo.co.uk
Dr. Stan Gronthos
Hanson Institute
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
E-mail: stan.gronthos@imvs.sa.gov.au
Dr. Wasim Khan
University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
E-mail: wasimkhan@doctors.org.uk
Dr. Tomohiko Kisaka
Translational Research Center, Hiroshima University
School of Biodesign, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
AIIMS | Hiroshima Uni | IIT Delhi | BCIL | Tottori Uni
E-mail: tomohiko.2017@biodesign.school
Dr. Toshio Kitamura
The Institute of Medical Science
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: kitamura@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Dr. J. Michael McCune
Chief, Division of Experimental Medicine
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, California, USA
E-mail: Mike.McCune@ucsf.edu
Dr. Michel Puceat
INSERM UMR 910
Faculté de Médecine La Timone
13885 Marseille, France
E-mail: michel.puceat@inserm.fr
Dr. Christina M. Ramirez
Professor of Biostatistics
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Los Angeles, California, USA
E-mail: cr@ucla.edu
Dr. David Scadden
Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
E-mail: dscadden@mgh.harvard.edu
Dr. Alka Sharma
Department of Biotechnology
Ministry of Science and Technology
New Delhi, Delhi, India
E-mail: alka.dbt@nic.in
Dr. Sarah E. Webb (Ho)
Division of Life Science
HKUST, Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong
E-mail: barnie@ust.hk
REVIEWERS
Palas Kumar Chanda, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Debamitra Das, Staff Scientist, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
Indulekha Pillai, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pavan Rajanahalli, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA
Rajesh Ranjan, PhD, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Kanchan Sarda, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pulavendran Sivasami, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Jinyun Yuan, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Journal of Stem Cells is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes four issues per year. The journal is owned and operated by Nova Science Publishers and funded entirely by subscription revenue and author-optional publication services.
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Manuscript Submissions
Journal of Stem Cells has ceased publication and is no longer accepting submissions. The journal and its editors have transitioned to a new book series titled Stem Cells in Translational Biomedicine, linked here: https://novapublishers.com/product-category/series/stem-cells-in-translational-biomedicine/
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Plagiarism is a blight on the scientific community and a crime. The unauthorized use or close imitation of another’s language, text, data, ideas, or theories is prohibited. In all instances of authorized use, full credit to and representation of the original author’s work must be provided. It is the authors’ responsibility to secure permission for the use of copyrighted material. Nova uses software during the page proof stage of production to check for instances of plagiarism. Articles will not be accepted for publication by the Publisher until articles are proven not to consist of plagiarized material. The journal will investigate all reports and suspicions of plagiarism. Authors suspected of plagiaristic misconduct will be contacted and given the opportunity to prove the validity of their work and refute the allegations. All instances of proven plagiarism will be reported to the Publisher by the editorial office, and the author’s institute, and other governing bodies will be contacted as necessary. Plagiarized articles already accepted for publication will be cancelled, and plagiarized articles that have already been published will be retracted and denounced in a public erratum.
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Statement
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Statement
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or
b) Disclosure of Interest:
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Statement
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Statement
This study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments.
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All studies that involve animals should contain a statement that the study and its procedures have been approved by their affiliate institutional research ethics committee.
Statement
All animals involved in this study were treated in accordance with the ethical standards set forth by the institution at which the study was conducted.
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The COPE Codes of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines can be read at the link below. We recommend your familiarity with them while you publish with Nova and any other scientific publisher.
https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct
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