''Biological Procedures Online'' is a

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, biomedical

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that is

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and published

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only. ''Biological Procedures Online'' publishes protocols in

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techniques and applications of existing techniques; validity analysis of research

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and approaches for judging the validity of research reports;

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development and experimental design; application of common research methods; and reviews of techniques. The editor-in-chief of the journal is Bolin Liu, and the editorial board members are Marxa Figueiredo,Julie Gehl, David Gewirtz, Todd Giorgio, Ching-Hung Hsu, Sek-Wen W Hui, Robert Kapsa, Hans-Peter Kiem, Hamed Kioumarsi, Song Li, David Liberles, Vinata B Lokeshwar, Claudio Luparello, J. Michael Mathis, Lluis Mir, Tom Misteli, Craig Nunemaker, Mauro Provinciali, Rajagopal Ramesh, Paul Shapshak, and Liangfang Zhang. Chunxia Su, Shaomian Yao, Chindo Hicks, Runhua Liu, and Gangadhara R Sareddy serve as associate editors for the journal. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.244.

History

''Biological Procedures Online'' was founded in 1997 by Mark Reimer, a surgeon at the

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, and Irem Ali, now Director of Operations for Biological Procedures. The journal began publishing peer-reviewed articles the following year. The journal was accepted into the

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in 2007. In 2009,

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began publishing the journal.BiologicalProcedures.com
, accessed April 1, 2009.

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