A Web Focus is a selection of articles on a related theme drawn from the entire Nature Publishing Group family of journals. With content ranging from Research Highlights, Reviews and Perspectives through to primary research papers, a Web Focus provides a panoramic view of a key area of biology.

Focus on Quality Control

This collection of eight review articles - Focus on Quality Control - highlights different aspects of cellular quality control and their potential relevance for human diseases. Topics include mitochondrial and ER quality control, protein folding and degradation; as well as quality control in RNA and DNA metabolism. The reviews will be printed in three subsequent regular issues of The EMBO Journal starting with the second issue in January 2008 (27.2). These online review articles include downloadable figures for teaching purposes and links to relevant research articles published recently in The EMBO Journal and other Nature Publishing Group titles.

Focus on Imaging

Recently published Reviews on imaging of biological membranes, the dynamics of protein structure, gene expression, cell polarity and cell migration, together with a selection of movies from our archive linked to the article in which they originally appeared.