From the database of
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM, this list of Fast Moving Fronts
has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period
of November 30, 2002-October 31, 2008, and the previous period of September
31, 2002-August 31, 2008 (sliding 6-year period).
Two Research Fronts were selected for mapping from the list of Fast Moving
Fronts from this period. They are:
WEST NILE VIRUS; INNATE
ANTIVIRAL RESPONSE; RIG-I HELICASE; MDA5 SIGNALING
Differential and redundant roles for retinoic
acid-inducible gene I and melanoma
differentiation-associated gene 5 in pathogen
recognition and innate immune signaling.
Research defines transient receptor potential cation
channel, subfamily M, member 7, as an important protein
which triggers anoxic death in cultured neurons.
Carriers of a common Alzheimer's susceptibility gene
have functional brain abnormalities in young adulthood,
several decades before the possible onset of dementia.