Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held independent publishing company founded by its president, Mary Ann Liebert, in 1980. The company publishes

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journals, books, and trade magazines in the areas of biotechnology,

biomedical sciences Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbio ...

medical research Medical research (or biomedical research), also known as experimental medicine, encompasses a wide array of research, extending from "basic research" (also called ''bench science'' or ''bench research''), – involving fundamental scientif ...

, and

life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, the ...

; clinical medicine,

surgery Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...

, and nursing; technology and engineering;

environmental science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geograp ...

; public health and policy; law, regulation, and education. The company's headquarters is in

New Rochelle, New York New Rochelle (; older french: La Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state. In 2020, the city had a population of 79,726, making it the seventh-largest in the state of ...

. The company has been described as the first to establish a specialty in

genetic engineering Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including t ...

Publications

Eschewing traditional market research, the publisher seeks out niche topics overlooked by larger publishers. As of 2000, its portfolio of more than ninety peer-reviewed journals included: Part 2 of the article appears at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22386499/genetic_genius_part_2/. Publications focused on topics outside of the medical field include ''Westchester Wag'', which covers the social scene in Westchester County, New York, and ''Rinkmagazine'', a skating periodical.

History

The company's first publication was the ''Journal of Interferon Research'', launched in 1981. ''Genetic Engineering News'' was launched the same year, attaining a circulation of 50,000 by 2000. The combined circulation of all titles from the publisher in 2000 was 250,000. The company's top five publications by revenue as of 2000 were ''Genetic Engineering News'' (50,000), ''Westchester Wag'' (50,000), ''Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine'' (5,000), ''Human Gene Therapy'' (2,300), and '' AIDS Research and Human Retrovirus'' (2,150). In February 2018, the company launched ''

The CRISPR Journal ''The CRISPR Journal'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published every two months by Mary Ann Liebert. It covers research on all aspects of CRISPR research, including its uses in synthetic biology and genome editing. Its editor-in-chief i ...

'', a bimonthly journal devoted to research advances and commentary in the field of

CRISPR CRISPR () (an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacte ...

and genome editing.

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* {{Official website, http://www.liebertpub.com/ Academic publishing companies Publishing companies of the United States Companies based in New Rochelle, New York American publishers (people) Publishing companies established in 1980 1980 establishments in New York (state)

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