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Lehtonen, Eero and Woodland, Hugh R. (2012) The 40th anniversary issue of Differentiation—Cilia in development, differentiation and disease. Differentiation, Vol.83 (No.2). S1-S3. doi:10.1016/j.diff.2011.12.001
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diff.2011.12.001
Abstract
This special issue on cilia/flagella has been compiled to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the International Society of Differentiation, Inc. (ISD) and its journal Differentiation. The ISD was founded as a result of the First International Conference on Differentiation held in Nice in 1971. The purpose of the Society, as stated in the bylaws, is “to encourage and develop research and communication in the fields of cell and developmental biology, molecular biology and oncology through meetings and publications”. ISD has held onto this commitment over 40 years by arranging major international conferences on a regular basis, every second year for more than the last two decades, by supporting selected smaller meetings, and by publishing the journal Differentiation.
The journal Differentiation was launched in 1972, with the first issue published – delayed a little, as usual – by Macmillan Journals Limited in February 1973 (Fig. 1, Table 1). The first editor of the journal, Dimitri Viza starts his editorial by saying that “paucity is not a syndrome from which biological literature can be said to suffer” and then, almost apologetically, justifies the launching of a new journal by discussing a gap he sees in the existing literature, i.e., the need for a synthetic view on cell differentiation as a special problem. The ideas in this first editorial, including the notion of cancer as an aspect of cell differentiation, still characterize the journal: Differentiation intends to maintain its broad focus, but with its special interest in the overlap between developmental biology and disease, the traditional niche of the Journal of ISD. Accordingly, and unlike many other long-lived journals, Differentiation has retained its name over the decades, although the cover included a subtitle during the first few years of publication and later again from the late 1980s till the late 1990s. These subtitles, “Differentiation; research in biological diversity” and later “Differentiation, ontogeny and neoplasia” followed by “Differentiation, ontogeny, neoplasia and differentiation therapy” also perfectly reflected the timely scope of the journal. Today, the key areas of Differentiation's scope include cancer, morphogenesis and stem cells, as well as the more obvious cell differentiation in vivo and in vitro.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Differentiation | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||
| ISSN: | 03014681 | ||||
| Official Date: | February 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.83 | ||||
| Number: | No.2 | ||||
| Page Range: | S1-S3 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.diff.2011.12.001 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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