Aim

MJ Biotechnology (MJB) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by MJ Cell Press. The journal provides a broad multidisciplinary platform for the publication of high-quality original research, reviews, short communications, technical notes, perspectives, and methodological advances covering all fundamental, applied, emerging, and translational areas of biotechnology.

The journal aims to advance scientific knowledge and technological innovation through the study, engineering, modification, and application of biological systems, living organisms, cells, microorganisms, biomolecules, and biological processes. It welcomes research ranging from fundamental molecular and cellular investigations to large-scale industrial applications and biotechnology-based solutions addressing challenges in health, agriculture, food production, energy, the environment, and sustainable development.

By integrating life sciences with engineering, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, materials science, computational sciences, artificial intelligence, and data-driven technologies, MJ Biotechnology seeks to promote interdisciplinary research and strengthen interactions between academia, research institutions, healthcare systems, industry, policymakers, and biotechnology stakeholders worldwide.

Scope

The journal welcomes manuscripts in all areas of biotechnology, including, but not limited to, the following fields:

Molecular, Cellular, and Genetic Biotechnology

• Molecular biotechnology and molecular biology
• Cellular biotechnology and cell engineering
• Genetic engineering and genome engineering
• Gene editing technologies, including CRISPR/Cas systems
• Recombinant DNA technology
• Gene cloning, expression, and regulation
• Functional genomics and epigenetics
• RNA technologies and RNA-based therapeutics
• Protein engineering and protein expression
• Antibody engineering
• Metabolic engineering
• Cell-based assays and screening technologies
• Stem cell biotechnology
• Organoids and advanced cellular models

Microbial Biotechnology

• Bacterial, fungal, archaeal, and viral biotechnology
• Microbial physiology and metabolism
• Microbial genetics and genomics
• Microbiome and metagenomics
• Microbial interactions and microbial ecology
• Applied microbiology
• Microbial bioprocesses
• Microbial production of high-value compounds
• Extremophile biotechnology
• Microbial cell factories
• Microbial consortia and synthetic microbial communities
• Antibiotic production and antimicrobial biotechnology
• Biotechnology approaches to antimicrobial resistance

Industrial and Bioprocess Biotechnology

• Industrial biotechnology
• Fermentation technology
• Bioprocess development, optimization, and scale-up
• Bioreactor design and operation
• Downstream processing and bioseparation
• Process monitoring and control
• Biocatalysis
• Enzyme biotechnology and enzyme engineering
• Immobilized enzymes and cells
• Metabolic pathway optimization
• Industrial production of enzymes, metabolites, organic acids, and biomolecules
• Biorefineries and integrated bioprocesses
• Bio-based manufacturing
• Process intensification and sustainable biomanufacturing

Synthetic Biology and Engineering Biology

• Synthetic biology
• Engineering biology
• Synthetic gene circuits
• Genome design and synthetic genomes
• Biological circuit engineering
• Standardized biological parts
• Programmable cells and microorganisms
• Cell-free synthetic biology
• Synthetic microbial communities
• Metabolic pathway design
• Biosynthetic engineering
• Design-build-test-learn approaches

Medical and Healthcare Biotechnology

• Medical biotechnology
• Biomedical biotechnology
• Translational biotechnology
• Molecular diagnostics
• Diagnostic biomarkers
• Biosensors and point-of-care diagnostics
• Precision medicine
• Personalized medicine
• Gene therapy
• Cell therapy
• Immunotherapy
• Cancer biotechnology
• Infectious disease biotechnology
• Regenerative medicine
• Tissue engineering
• Stem cell-based therapies
• Organ and tissue regeneration
• Biomaterials for medical applications
• Nanomedicine and biotechnology-based drug delivery
• Therapeutic nucleic acids
• Molecular and cellular therapies

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals

• Pharmaceutical biotechnology
• Biopharmaceutical development
• Therapeutic proteins
• Monoclonal antibodies
• Recombinant vaccines
• Vaccine development and production
• Drug discovery and biotechnology-assisted screening
• Biologic medicines
• Biosimilars
• Pharmacogenomics
• Biopharmaceutical formulation
• Drug delivery systems
• Biopharmaceutical manufacturing
• Quality control and characterization of biological products
• Biotechnology in traditional and natural product-based drug discovery

Agricultural and Plant Biotechnology

• Agricultural biotechnology
• Plant biotechnology
• Plant molecular biology
• Plant genetic engineering
• Genome editing in crops
• Plant breeding and molecular breeding
• Marker-assisted selection
• Plant tissue culture and micropropagation
• Plant transformation
• Crop improvement
• Stress tolerance and climate-resilient crops
• Biofortification
• Plant-microbe interactions
• Biofertilizers
• Biopesticides and biological control
• Plant growth-promoting microorganisms
• Agricultural microbiomes
• Biotechnology for sustainable agriculture
• Precision agriculture and biotechnology

Animal and Veterinary Biotechnology

• Animal biotechnology
• Veterinary biotechnology
• Animal genetics and genomics
• Animal breeding technologies
• Genome editing in animals
• Reproductive biotechnology
• Assisted reproductive technologies
• Animal cell culture
• Veterinary vaccines and diagnostics
• Animal health biotechnology
• Livestock biotechnology
• Aquaculture biotechnology
• Biotechnology for animal nutrition and feed improvement

Food Biotechnology

• Food biotechnology
• Food microbiology
• Fermented foods and beverages
• Starter cultures
• Functional foods
• Nutraceuticals
• Probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics
• Food microbiome
• Food enzyme technology
• Food bioprocessing
• Biotechnology-based food preservation
• Food safety and quality
• Rapid detection of foodborne pathogens
• Novel and alternative food ingredients
• Cellular agriculture
• Cultivated meat
• Alternative proteins
• Biotechnology for food security and nutrition

Environmental Biotechnology

• Environmental biotechnology
• Bioremediation
• Phytoremediation
• Mycoremediation
• Microbial remediation
• Wastewater treatment biotechnology
• Drinking water biotechnology
• Soil biotechnology
• Environmental microbiology
• Biodegradation of pollutants
• Treatment of emerging contaminants
• Heavy metal bioremediation
• Bioremediation of hydrocarbons and pesticides
• Plastic biodegradation
• Environmental biosensors
• Pollution monitoring
• Ecotoxicological biotechnology
• Biotechnology for ecosystem restoration

Waste Valorization and Circular Bioeconomy

• Biological waste treatment
• Waste bioconversion
• Biomass valorization
• Agricultural and agro-industrial waste valorization
• Food waste biotechnology
• Municipal and industrial waste biotechnology
• Recovery of valuable compounds from waste
• Circular bioeconomy
• Resource recovery
• Waste-to-energy technologies
• Waste-to-product bioconversion
• Biological recycling
• Sustainable biorefineries

Energy Biotechnology

• Bioenergy
• Biofuels
• Biogas and biomethane
• Biohydrogen
• Bioethanol
• Biodiesel
• Advanced biofuels
• Algal biofuels
• Microbial fuel cells
• Bioelectrochemical systems
• Energy recovery from biomass and waste
• Photosynthetic biotechnology
• Renewable biological energy systems

Marine and Aquatic Biotechnology

• Marine biotechnology
• Blue biotechnology
• Aquatic biotechnology
• Marine microorganisms
• Marine natural products
• Algal and microalgal biotechnology
• Seaweed biotechnology
• Aquaculture biotechnology
• Marine enzymes and biomolecules
• Bioprospecting of aquatic resources
• Sustainable exploitation of marine biological resources

Nanobiotechnology and Biomaterials

• Nanobiotechnology
• Bionanotechnology
• Nanomaterials for biological applications
• Biogenic nanoparticles
• Biological synthesis of nanomaterials
• Nanobiosensors
• Nanodiagnostics
• Nanocarriers and targeted delivery systems
• Biomaterials
• Bioinspired materials
• Biocompatible and biodegradable materials
• Tissue-engineering scaffolds
• Smart biomaterials
• Biofabrication
• Three-dimensional bioprinting

Bioinformatics, Computational Biotechnology, and Systems Biology

• Bioinformatics
• Computational biology
• Computational biotechnology
• Systems biology
• Systems biotechnology
• Genomics
• Transcriptomics
• Proteomics
• Metabolomics
• Lipidomics
• Metagenomics
• Multi-omics integration
• Biological network analysis
• Computational modeling of biological systems
• Molecular modeling and simulation
• Structure-based biotechnology
• In silico drug discovery
• Data integration and biological databases

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Biotechnology

• Artificial intelligence in biotechnology
• Machine learning and deep learning
• AI-assisted drug discovery
• AI-assisted protein and enzyme engineering
• Predictive modeling in biotechnology
• Digital biology
• Computational design of biological systems
• Automated laboratories
• High-throughput biotechnology
• Robotics in biotechnology
• Digital twins of biological and bioprocess systems
• Data-driven bioprocess optimization

Biosensors, Bioelectronics, and Diagnostic Technologies

• Biosensors
• Bioelectronics
• Lab-on-a-chip technologies
• Microfluidics
• Organ-on-a-chip systems
• Point-of-care testing
• Wearable biosensors
• Molecular detection technologies
• Diagnostic platforms
• Biomedical devices integrating biological components
• Environmental and food biosensors

Biotechnology of Natural Products and Bioresources

• Bioprospecting
• Natural product biotechnology
• Medicinal plant biotechnology
• Ethnobiotechnology
• Bioactive compound discovery
• Extraction and bioprocessing of natural products
• Microbial and plant-derived bioactive compounds
• Biotechnology of medicinal and aromatic plants
• Sustainable utilization of biological resources

Enzyme and Protein Biotechnology

• Enzymology
• Enzyme production and characterization
• Enzyme engineering
• Protein biotechnology
• Protein design
• Directed evolution
• Enzyme immobilization
• Industrial enzymes
• Extremozymes
• Proteomics-based biotechnology
• Protein-protein interactions
• Structure-function relationships

Reproductive and Developmental Biotechnology

• Reproductive biotechnology
• Assisted reproduction
• Embryo biotechnology
• Gamete and embryo preservation
• Cryobiology
• Developmental biotechnology
• Fertility-related biotechnologies
• Reproductive technologies in animals and agriculture

Forensic and Security Biotechnology

• Forensic biotechnology
• DNA profiling and molecular identification
• Molecular trace analysis
• Biotechnology for biosurveillance
• Biological detection systems
• Biosecurity and biosafety
• Methods for detection and characterization of biological agents

Space and Extreme-Environment Biotechnology

• Space biotechnology
• Astrobiotechnology
• Biotechnology under extreme environmental conditions
• Microbial and cellular responses to space environments
• Life-support biotechnologies
• Biological resource utilization for space exploration

Biotechnology for Sustainable Development

• Sustainable biotechnology
• Green biotechnology
• Clean and low-carbon bioprocesses
• Biotechnology for climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Carbon capture and biological carbon utilization
• Sustainable production systems
• Biodiversity and biotechnology
• Biotechnology supporting the circular economy
• Biotechnology contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Ethical, Legal, Regulatory, Economic, and Social Aspects of Biotechnology

• Biotechnology ethics and bioethics
• Biosafety and biosecurity
• Regulatory science
• Biotechnology legislation and policy
• Intellectual property and technology transfer
• Biotechnology entrepreneurship and innovation
• Commercialization of biotechnology
• Socio-economic impacts of biotechnology
• Public perception and communication of biotechnology
• Responsible research and innovation
• Access, equity, and affordability of biotechnology
• Biotechnology education and capacity building

MJB particularly encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary manuscripts that introduce innovative concepts, robust and reproducible methodologies, new biological technologies, scalable processes, and translational applications. Studies demonstrating clear relevance to human and animal health, agriculture, food security, environmental protection, industrial development, the circular bioeconomy, and sustainable development are strongly encouraged.

The journal also welcomes research addressing biotechnology challenges and opportunities in emerging and developing economies, while maintaining a global scientific scope and international standards of research quality, integrity, reproducibility, and innovation.