A New Beginning for Cells Tissues Organs
A New Beginning for Cells Tissues Organs
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细胞组织器官的新开始
DOI:
10.1159/000496633
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Viebahn Christoph
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作者:
RJ Gilbert ;Sheng Guojun;Viebahn Christoph
We are privileged to receive the warm welcome expressed by Thomas Karger from the Karger publishing family and by Hans-Werner Denker and Art English, the former editors in chief of Cells Tissues Organs. Our reply accompanies the first issue for which the new editorial triumvirate is responsible, and we hope that the contents mirror the new focus of the Journal: multiscale development in vivo and in vitro with an emphasis on human relevance. At the same time, a certain déjà vu in that mirror image is our full commitment to continuing on the path of innovation and knowledge acquisition laid out by our predecessors from the start of the Journal in 1945. What was then the establishment of the term functional anatomy in a field struggling with the correct representation of nature’s wealth of forms is still with us today with the obligation to tackle the functional logic behind the attractive pictures we capture under our microscopes from these forms. Scientific publishing in the 21st century may be changing drastically under the influence of electronic media. What has not changed, and will not change, is the need for rigour (next to reason) as being the most important factor in knowledge acquisition and dissemination since Homo sapiens amalgamated astronomy, mechanical physics, and metaphysics in building the Stonehenge monument without written language or instant access to big data. Aristotle (382–322 BC) postulated that “credit should be given to observation rather than to theory” 1. For the future of Cells Tissues Organs, we would like to use the reference to this wisdom as reassurance and inspiration to follow new thoughts and methods in trying to understand human development and to improve the human condition.The scientific portfolios of the three of us, which are reflected also by the choice of our associate editors and editorial board, cross all borders far and wide of our individual main interests as in tissue engineering (RJG), stem cells (GS), and mammalian development (CV). They are–not least in com-