Protein & Cell

Protein & Cell is a monthly peer-reviewed open access journal covering protein and cell biology. It was established in 2010 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Zihe Rao (Nankai University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 7.575.^[1]

Protein & Cell

Discipline	Cell biology
Language	English
Edited by	Zihe Rao
Publication details
History	2010-present
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	13.6 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Protein Cell
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	PCREFB
ISSN	1674-800X (print) 1674-8018 (web)
LCCN	2014254504
OCLC no.	865290367
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Genetic modification of human embryos controversy

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In 2015, the journal sparked controversy when it published a paper reporting results of an attempt to alter the DNA of non-viable human embryos to correct a mutation that causes beta thalassemia, a lethal heritable disorder.^[2][3] According to the paper's lead author, the paper had previously been rejected by both Nature and Science in part because of ethical concerns; the journals did not comment to reporters.^[4]