本出版物的主要目的是鼓勵所有相關專業的臨床醫生和從事生物化學、分子和細胞生物學、生理學、藥理學和病理學等領域工作的生物醫學科學家之間彌合差距。將選擇一系列醫學主題，以闡明從基礎科學應用中獲得的分子見解，以及醫學能夠為基礎科學家提供的各種具有挑戰性的問題。編輯和出版商預計,大部分的作者為該系列執業臨床科學家會發展自己的個人角度來看延長審查分子方面的醫學領域中工作,解決自己的醫生都是局促不安的基礎科學,和基本的科學家沒有意識到臨床實踐的問題。

It is the primary objective of this publication to encourage the bridging of the gap between clinicians of all relevant specialities and biomedical scientists working in areas from biochemistry and molecular and cell biology to physiology, pharmacology and pathology. A spectrum of topics in medicine will be selected to illustrate not only the molecular insights that derive from the application of basic science, but also the variety of challenging problems that medicine is able to offer the basic scientist. The Editors and publisher anticipate that most of the authors contributing to the series will be practising clinical scientists who will develop their own personal perspective as an extended review on the molecular aspects of a field of medicine in which they are working, addressing themselves both to the doctor who is ill-at-ease with basic science, and to the basic scientist with little awareness of the problems of clinical practice.