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Discovery Medicine publishes innovative, provocative, and disruptive ideas, insights, and discoveries in clinical medicine, preclinical research, basic biomedical sciences, and all other fields of life sciences (from plant biology to surgery).



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Content Scope

Discovery Medicine publishes innovative, provocative, and disruptive ideas, insights, and discoveries in clinical medicine, preclinical research, basic biomedical sciences, and all other fields of life sciences (from plant biology to surgery).

Review

The contribution is a formal review with regard to the important advances described in recent publications. Articles published in Discovery Medicine are meant to be read and understood by a multidisciplinary audience and hence to facilitate the quick acquisition of new knowledge and new concepts, the cultivation of new ideas, and the cross-disciplinary utilization of important information. Therefore, articles published in Discovery Medicine are concise and clear. Please limit the discussion to one or a few important points that you would like the reader to “take home”. Sections include Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Key Points as Section Headings, Conclusion, Author Contributions, Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate, Acknowledgment, Funding, Disclosure statement (Conflict of Interest), and References (in the alphabetical order of the first author’s last name).

Article

The contribution is a clear description of your research findings/discoveries with conclusions being supported by your experimental data obtained through rationally designed experiments or observations. Sections include Abstract (structured), Keywords, Introduction, Experimental Methods and Design, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Author Contributions, Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate, Acknowledgment, Funding, Disclosure statement (Conflict of Interest), and References.

Others

In general, Discovery Medicine does not accept articles that fall outside the above-mentioned categories. If you have any questions regarding the article category for submission to Discovery Medicine, please contact the Editorial Office at: editorial@discovmed.com.



Format of a Contribution (Manuscript Submission Requirements)

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