Gene therapy clinical trials worldwide to 2012 - an update.

To date, over 1800 gene therapy clinical trials have been completed, are ongoing or have been approved worldwide. Our database brings together global information on gene therapy clinical trials from official agency sources, published literature, conference presentations and posters kindly provided to us by individual investigators or trial sponsors. This review presents our analysis of clinical trials that, to the best of our knowledge, have been or are being performed worldwide.

The Journal of Pathology's approach to publication ethics and misconduct.

This Editorial highlights recent changes at The Journal of Pathology intended to improve our ability to detect, and we hope deter, instances of ethical misconduct among submissions made to the Journal, such as cases of guest authorship and plagiarism. We also discuss our experience to date and describe our policies for dealing with such cases. These changes are all encapsulated in our full online Author Guidelines.

More developments at The Journal of Pathology.

This Editorial highlights further changes that have been introduced to The Journal of Pathology including new Instructions to Authors, new typeface and style, and the development of Virtual Issues. We also emphasize the benefits of publication in the Journal including speed of review and publication, as well as the absence of submission or page charges, no charge for supplementary online material, and competitive colour costs.