About Targets

Aims

Targets (ISSN 2813-3137) is a peer-reviewed, international, scientific, open access journal published online by MDPI. It aims to publish high-quality articles in the field of chemistry, especially chemical measurement science, biology, material science, pharmacy, clinical diagnostics, molecular medicine, and biomedicine. Its objects involve the weak interaction or recognition of chemical, biological, and drug molecules, bioprobes, nanomaterials, nanostructures, and cells, as well as the related research methodology and biomedical applications such as sensing, imaging, and targeted therapy. The measurement methods include electrochemistry, fluorescence, luminescence, Raman spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, etc., and the therapeutic approaches include chemotherapy, photo responsive therapy, gene therapy, immune therapy, etc. It also involves signal amplification strategies based on the weak interaction for target analysis and stimuli-responsive therapeutic approaches. Targets publishes original research articles, reviews, short communications, case reports, and interesting images. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Full experimental and/or methodological details must be provided for research articles.

Scope

Targets encourages submissions addressing topics including but not limited to, the following:

• Biomolecule recognition and their related biological interaction monitoring.
• The development of novel molecules as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
• Synthesis of targeted drugs, targeted probes, and targeted nanostructures, as well as their biomedical applications.
• The development of pathways for disease development and progression.
• Single molecule analysis, single cell imaging, and single-cell operation techniques.
• Instrumentation development, improvement, and miniaturization.
• Computational, statistics, and bioinformatic methods for target analysis.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Targets will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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