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Editorial: soft matters.

In 1991, French scientist Pierre Gilles de Gennes received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers” [1]. Now credited as the “father” of soft matter, de Gennes showed how disparate problems at the interface of physics, chemis...

Editorial CHINESE MEDICINE ( CM ) matters

Happy birthday CM! On 23 November 2006, we launched Chinese Medicine (CM), a peer-reviewed, open access, international, interdisciplinary and scholarly journal in Chinese medicine [1]. Two years on, with the best efforts and sometimes personal sacrifices made by the authors, editorial and advisory board members, reviewers, and the editorial teams in Macao and at BioMed Central in London, we hav...

Editorial: Sex matters in preclinical research.

In recent months, there has been a flurry of discussion regarding the importance of considering the sex of animals, primary cells, and even cell lines when performing preclinical studies. These conversations were highlighted in a recent editorial in Nature by Janine A. Clayton, Director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, and Francis S. Collins, Director o...

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