Our goal is to establish Epigenetics as the lead journal in the newly emerging field of Epigenetics. The journal will cover epigenetics in its broadest interpretation to provide a comprehensive view of epigenetic modification, which spans biological systems and diseases.

Epigenetics is beginning to form and take shape as a new scientific discipline, which will have profound impact on Medicine and essentially all fields of biology. The journal goal is to facilitate this process by providing a forum where epigenetic approaches to a variety of medical and biological issues could be discussed and where the common basic principles of epigenetics spanning different systems could be revealed and shared. Epigenetics covers many different levels of biological control from variegated expression in Drosophila to chromatin structure and modification down to DNA methylation and relates to different biological systems from yeast to plants as well as different disease and biological disciplines. Although in recent years cancer has been the main focus of epigenetics, recent data suggests that epigenetic plays a critical role in psychology and psychopathology. It is being realized that normal behaviors such as maternal care and pathologies such as Schizophrenia and AlzheimerÕs might have an epigenetic basis. It is also becoming clear that nutrition and life experiences have epigenetic consequences. The increasing awareness of the potential role of epigenetic deregulation in disease has spawned the development of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches using epigenetics. Although the questions asked are diverse, the unifying hypothesis is epigenetics. The journal would provide a platform for developing unifying methodologies, hypotheses, experimental approaches and diagnostic agents and will serve as a meeting place for researchers from different systems such as general biology, plant biology, cancer biology, cancer therapeutics, epigenetic pharmacology, neurobiology and psychiatry who are unraveling the epigenetic facets of their specific fields of interest.