title: New era of Genes and Environment.
abstract: Genes and Environment is now at the start of a new era of publication as an open access journal. I believe that open access publication marks a turning point that will make Genes and Environment unique in the Asian environmental mutagen research community.
authors.affiliation: Center for Environmental Risk Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506 Japan.
authors.forename: Yasunobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aoki
keywords: Environmental agent; Genotoxicity; Mutagen; Mutation research; Open access Journal