Biophysical Society Bulletin | October 2022

Publications

Biophysical Reports Published Its First Issue One Year Ago Launching a new journal is big accomplishment for a society publisher, and one can’t help but be proud as the publication grows and matures. That is why BPS is happy to celebrate one year since Biophysical Reports released its first issue in September 2021. Launched as a gold open access journal, meaning its articles are free to read immediately upon publication for anyone with internet access, Biophysical Reports reaches a vast global audience. It publishes full-length articles and reviews, as well as letters and reports. The journal accepts submissions in all disciplines encompassed by biophysics, with a particular emphasis on methods and techniques (biological, chemical, or physical) for biophysical research, as well as concepts and ideas that present major conceptual advances or represent new views on existing data and results Founding Editor-in-Chief Jörg Enderlein has assembled a distinguished editorial board (www.cell.com/biophysreports/ editorial-board) able to handle the wide variety of biophys ics research. Associate Editor Oliver Beckstein sums up the journal’s approach, saying “ Biophysical Reports fills a gap in the publication landscape for biophysicists as a journal for high-quality scholarly work without putting undue emphasis on extraordinary novelty.” The board is committed to rigorous, but efficient, peer review. Authors who submit their work receive a first decision in an average of 3.4 weeks; if the article is not going to be sent for peer review, authors will be notified in an average of only 3.5 days. The editorial board of Biophysical Reports invites you to send your quality research for consideration. The biophysics com munity is excited to see the journal’s reputation and reader ship grow. More information can be found at www.biophysre ports.org.

Editor’s Pick Biophysical Reports Viro-fluidics: Real-time analysis of virus production kinetics at the single-cell level Joëlle Eid, Marius Socol, Antoine Naillon, Jérôme Feuillard, Luca Ciandrini, Emmanuel Margeat, Benoit Charlot, Marylène Mougel “We are frequently exposed to viruses, but some of them, like HIV, cause fatal diseases and pandemics. The authors have developed a simple viro-fluidic system that requires only fluo rescent labeling of viral particles and allows direct observation of viruses exiting a cell, one by one, under cell culture condi tions. The system operates in real-time and at single-cell and single-viral particle resolutions. The results reveal HIV pro duction at a moderate frequency that was not predicted for optimal virus dissemination. Importantly, the viro-fluidic tool is remarkably easy for biologists to access and is transposable

to other pathogens or extracellular vesicles.” Version of Record Published August 10, 2022 DOI: https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.bpr.2022.100068

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