EDITORIAL: Recent Advances in the Field of Metal Based Drugs: from Structural Studies, Towards Biological Properties, and Innovative Strategies for Drug Delivery

The rationale is that a deep knowledge of crystal and molecular structures is fundamental for the development of metal based drugs, for understanding their mechanism of action and for designing suitable materials for efficiently administering the drugs themselves. X-ray crystallography represents the main way for gathering accurate structural information. Thus, inviting authors, reviewers, editors and publishers to take care of the enormous pool of information that can be obtained from X-ray structures is a duty that crystallography oriented journals should cultivate with tireless efforts.