From the database of
Essential Science IndicatorsSM, this list of Emerging
Research Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the
current period of March 2003-February 28, 2009, and the previous period of
January 2003-December 31, 2008 (sliding 6-year period). Of the 6,667
Research Fronts in the March 2003-February 28, 2009 file, a total of 738
(11%) were new.
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Field
Research Front Name
Description
Agricultural
Sciences
ENDOGENOUS ZN2+ POOL MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION MODULATION;
CELLULAR ZINC; NEURONAL CELL DEATH INVOLVING MITOCHONDRIAL
DYSFUNCTION
Biological functions, health implications, and pharmacological
targets are emerging for zinc.
AUTOMATED PROTEIN HOMOLOGY-MODELING SERVER; PROTEIN STRUCTURE
HOMOLOGY MODELLING; SWISS-MODEL WORKSPACE; WEB-BASED
ENVIRONMENT
A server for automated comparative modeling of
three-dimensional protein structures.
Economics &
Business
1958 BRITISH BIRTH COHORT (NATIONAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT STUDY);
COHORT PROFILE; BIOMEDICAL SURVEY; BRIGHT CHILDREN
A continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which takes
as its subjects all the people born in one week in March 1958
in England, Scotland, and Wales.