Frontiers in Bioscience-Scholar is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal for biology and basic medicine. FBS publishes high-quality research papers and reviews on topics identified within the scope of the journal, which includes biochemistry, molecular biology, biomedicine, genetics, and functional genomics, with a particular emphasis on heredity genetics and gene functions in humans and all model organisms. Research articles on the genetic basis of human diseases and the functional mechanisms involving gene networks are encouraged. For more details, please refer to Aims & Scope.