The Chilean Biology Society and I are delighted to mark

this milestone by entering a new era in which the jour-nal is published by BioMed Central. The journal has a long history publishing research across the broad spec-trum of experimental biology, having been founded in 1964 as “Archivos de Biología y Medicina Experimentales” and renamed in 1992 to its current title. We are certain that, by being associated with this pres-tigious publishing house, Biological Research will have greater visibility, which will attract new authors from around the world to publish in the journal and gather new readers. The resultant increase in downloads and impact should lead to a rise in citations and growth of the Impact Factor, currently 1.13. The journal is indexed in PubMed and Scopus, and published articles are ar-chived in PubMed Central, SciELO and other accessible full text repositories. This shows that the journal is one of the scientific publications of Latin American-origin with greatest international impact. We welcome original articles and invited reviews in di-verse fields of experimental biology, including biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cell biology, cancer, chemical biology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genet