HFSP Publishing is proud to announce the publication of the first issue of the HFSP Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences which is available online free of charge at http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp"KEY=HFSPJX&Volume=LASTVOL&Issue=LASTISS

The HFSP Journal is a new journal which aims to foster communication between scientists publishing high quality, innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.

The first issue features:

• An Editorial from the Editor-in-Chief Arturo Falaschi from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Trieste and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy which discusses the new frontiers of research in the life sciences, many of which require approaches from other scientific disciplines.

• An Editorial from the President of HFSP Publishing, Mark Bisby from Ottawa, Canada which explains that the HFSP Journal aims to further the goals of the Human Frontier Science Program to promote innovative basic research at the interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences.

• A Commentary from Paul De Koninck from the Centre de Recherche Universit Laval Robert Giffard, Universit Laval, Qubec, in Canada and his colleagues which discusses a recent study of synaptic signaling and remodeling by quantum dot imaging from Daniel Choquets group.

• A Commentary from Jonathon Howard and Iva Tolic-Norrelykke from the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany which discusses two recent articles from Franois Ndlecs group which address the issue of how cortex-microtubule interactions position the mitotic spindle by a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches.

• A Perspective from pioneers in the fields of single mo
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