key: cord-0071257-fp4pqdlo authors: Wijayatunga, Roshaine title: Welcome to volume 8 of Future Science OA date: 2021-12-01 journal: nan DOI: 10.2144/fsoa-2021-0124 sha: 965a132e5b8c41f526ceb886f87a371b2a3c38cc doc_id: 71257 cord_uid: fp4pqdlo nan and erm genes in Staphylococcus aureus in school children in Kathmandu, Nepal,' by Timsina et al. [8] , and an interesting review paper looking into the attributed functions of DHX9 in cancer development and its potential as an antineoplastic target, titled, 'The enigmatic helicase DHX9 and its association with the hallmarks of cancer,' by Gulliver et al. [9] . We have been able to continue to grant fee-waivers to authors from low-income countries and by publishing all our articles with a Creative Commons CC-BY license we continue to ensure accessibility of our research and content for readers across the globe. This coming year, we would like to continue to build on the success of Future Science OA in providing a key resource for researchers within biotechnology, medicine and health, and a platform from which high quality research and content is published, reaching an even wider demographic as previous years. We welcome unsolicited article proposals -please do get in touch if you have any plans for submission or ideas for topic areas we should cover, we would love to hear from you! We also welcome feedback from our readers -please do get in touch! We believe engaging with the online community via Twitter and other social media channels is very important and if you have not already done so, we would love to welcome you as a follower on Twitter (@fsgfso) [12] . We would like to thank you all again for your interest in and support for Future Science OA. We look forward to an even better 2022 and to working with you all this year. Financial & competing interests disclosure R Wijayatunga is an employee of Future Science Ltd. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to antimicrobial resistance containment Cancer patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study of 51 patients in the district of Piacenza Use of amantadine in the evaluation of response to chemotherapy in lung cancer: a pilot study Antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities of commercial aromatizing fragrances Announcing the novel class of GABA-A receptor selective positive allosteric modulator antidepressants Machine learning algorithms for predicting coronary artery disease: efforts toward an open source solution Are all wines made from various grape varieties beneficial in the prevention of myocardial infarction and stroke? Future Sci Inducible clindamycin resistance and erm genes in Staphylococcus aureus in school children in Kathmandu The enigmatic helicase DHX9 and its association with the hallmarks of cancer