Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology is an international forum for rapid dissemination of high quality research results dealing with all aspects of preparative techniques in biochemistry, biotechnology and other life science disciplines. Scope includes:Techniques pertinent to clarification, isolation, enrichment, and purification of biotech productsProducts in areas of human therapeutics, biofuels, plant biotechnology, animal biotechnology, food processing, and environmental biotechnologyUnit operations including fermentation/ cell culture, centrifugation, depth filtration, homogenization, chromatography, ultrafiltration, diafiltration, refolding, viral filtration, viral inactivation, sterile filtration, extraction, two phase separation, precipitation, osmotic shock, and lyophilization Industrial applications involving preparative processingPriority will be given to novel results that are likely to have major impact on the respective research area.