About JBB
Posted date 2008.10.20 | Updated date 2010.06.15
The Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering (JBB) is an international journal devoted to the rapid publication of papers describing original research in the field of biotechnology. JBB encourages and publishes new concepts in technology/methodology that significantly advance the understanding of bioscience and bioengineering and contribute to the development of chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, food, and agricultural industries. The Editorial Committee makes its best efforts to provide expeditious, rigorous and fair peer-review, ensuring the high quality of articles published in JBB.
JBB is published monthly (2 vols. in 12 issues) by the Society for Biotechnology, Japan and distributed outside Japan by Elsevier. Online version is available in ScienceDirect. The journal was first published in 1923, originally being named Jyozogaku Zasshi (in Japanese) and then renamed Hakkokogaku Zasshi (in Japanese) (1944), Journal of Fermentation Technology (1973), and Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering (1989). It was given the current name in 1999. JBB has established itself as one of the most influential biotechnology journals and is now highly appreciated by scientists throughout the world.
JBB is abstracted/indexed in BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, ISI Biotechnology Citation Index, and MEDLINE/PubMed.
Print ISSN 1389-1723
Online ISSN 1347-4421
CODEN: JBBIF6
Vol. 110 Cover Illustration
Photomicrograph of CRFK cell-enclosing microcapsules prepared from a photopolymerizable polysaccharide which was chemically-derivatized from a natural polysaccharide via irradiation with a visible light source. Diameters of the cell-enclosing microcapsules can be controlled and a low-cost LED device was used as the visible light source. Details are discussed in Mu, C.J. et al. “Preparation of cell-enclosing microcapsules through photopolymerization of methacrylated alginate solution triggered by irradiation with visible light”, J. Biosci. Bioeng., vol. 110, p. 618-621, doi:10.1016/j.jbiosc.2009.11.017.