British Journal of Biomedical Science in 2020. What have we learned?

ABSTRACT

Each year the British Journal of Biomedical Science publishes a ‘What have we learned’ editorial designed to introduce readers within the major disciplines of laboratory medicine to developments outside their immediate area. In addition it is designed to inform a wider readership of the advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. To this end, in 2020 the journal published 39 articles covering the disciplines within Biomedical Science in the 4 issues comprising volume 77. These included a review of COVID-19 in this issue, 27 original articles, 6 Biomedical Science ‘In Brief’ and 4 case histories. 27 of the articles involved molecular techniques, with one of these comparing results with a mass spectrometry based method. The preponderance of molecular genetic studies gives us a good idea of the likely future direction of the disciplines

KEYWORDS:

• Biomedical Science; Cellular Pathology; Clinical Chemistry; Cytopathology; Heamatology; Immunology; Microbiology; Transfusion Science; Virology

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Editor’s Note: 2020 Referees.

The Editor is delighted to be able to thank his colleagues for their support in refereeing submitted papers over the past year. These are: Joanne Andrew, Sally Barratt, Nigel Brown, Richard Cartwright Ken Champion, Tony Dedman, Tracey de Haro, Matthew Griffiths, Joanna Horne, Keith James, Alex Javed, Patrick Kimmitt, Gavin Knight, John Obladeston, Guy Orchard, Sukhjinder Marwah, Joanne Mott, David Muskett, Sarah Pitt, Malcolm Ray, Tony Rhodes, Sheri Scott, Behdad Shambayati, Gordon Sinclair, Paul Waller, Qiuyu Wang, Tony Warford, David Wilson, Sonja Wright.

Andrew Blann