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takes you behind the scenes of highly cited research in these
interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
fields. Author commentaries come from all areas of
ScienceWatch.com. There are also interviews with authors
featured within every Special Topic
and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments
from authors who have papers featured in
Emerging Research Fronts,
Fast-Moving Fronts,
New Hot Papers,
Fast-Breaking Papers,
Current Classics, and
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July
2008
Luca Amendola; "Probably the reason is that
this paper gives finally an exhaustive set of rules for
judging whether theories that propose a form of "modified
gravity" (i.e. gravity different from Einstein's Relativity
theory) are acceptable or not. This is helpful because so
far many scientists, at least since the 1970s..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Wolfgang H. Binder; "The paper on
"click"-chemistry in polymer and materials-science provides
an overview on the use of a newly discovered reaction for
application in polymer and material science. The reaction
basically is an old one (i.e.: a Huisgen-type 1,3-dipolar
cycloaddtion reaction)..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Ewan Birney; "...in this paper: GeneWise,
which predicts gene structure using similar protein
sequences, and genomewise, which provides a gene structure
final parse across cDNA- and EST-defined spliced structure.
GeneWise is heavily used by the Ensembl annotation
system..." Fast Moving Front,
July 2008
July
2008
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds; "...the paper tells
an interesting story with many interesting ingredients in
the mix: mammals, dinosaurs, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary
mass-extinction event. Moreover, it apparently dispels the
long-held truth that it was the death of the dinosaurs that
cleared the way for..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Tiziana Borsello; "We believe that this paper
is of general interest in the field of neuroscience since
it illustrates the death of neurons during stroke and a
possible way to prevent death. This is a hot field. Stroke
is one of the leading causes of death and long-term
disability and despite..." Fast Moving Front,
July 2008
July
2008
David Dollar; "We were stimulated to undertake
this research because in the late 1990s it was common for
pundits to claim that growing international trade and
investment were leading to higher inequality in countries
and to growing poverty. We were not aware of any evidence
to support this..." Fast Moving Front,
July 2008
July
2008
Laurie Garrett; "The paper brought together
several streams of thinking at a critical time, offering a
perspective that was controversial for some, and applauded
by many. Timing was the key. The paper garnered widespread
attention at a critical moment in global health efforts.
The paper's ideas..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Ji-Huan He; "This paper is an elementary
introduction to the concepts of the variational iteration
method. First, the main concepts in the variational
iteration method, such as the general Lagrange multiplier,
restricted variation, and correction functional, are
explained heuristically. Subsequently, the..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Philippe Horvath; "Our paper represents the
first demonstration of the functionality of
CRISPR/cas as a new microbial immune system. It is
essentially the validation of a putative hypothesis. This
achievement is mostly due to the concomitant availability,
within Danisco, of two large..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
David Lacey & Scott Simonet; "This paper
was an invited review article that summarized, circa 2003,
what was known in the field of osteoclast differentiation.
There had been an explosion of insights in the field over
the previous decade and this article succinctly summarized
the current..." Fast Moving Front,
July 2008
July
2008
Kenneth Livak & Thomas Schmittgen;
"Regular PCR amplifies the RNA or DNA in a sample, and
real-time PCR amplifies it and quantifies it. You’re
actually measuring something as it occurs in real time.
Following the PCR, you get a number, and that number tells
you how much RNA or DNA is..." Featured Paper
Interview,
July
2008
July
2008
Tom Millar; "The underlying theme that
interests me is the use of chemistry of molecules as probes
of the physical conditions in interstellar space. To me
that’s more than a question of using molecules as
proxies to get temperatures, densities, the strength of
magnetic fields..."
Special Topic of
Astrochemistry
July
2008
Jesper Møller; "My main focus of
research is in mathematical statistics and applied
probability, particularly in relation to spatial data sets
and computational problems as covered in the research areas
known as spatial statistics, stochastic geometry,
simulation-based..." Featured Scientist
Interview,
July
2008
July
2008
Chung-Yuan Mou; "To me, mesoporous silica
materials are an ideal playground for materials synthesis
with wide possibilities of structure and morphology control
and many chemical applications. My first paper on
mesoporous silica was published in Science in
1996..."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous
Materials
July
2008
Zbyszek Otwinowski; discusses mathematical
crystallography, the primary method used to determine
three-dimensional structures of large biological molecules,
namely proteins and nucleic acids and the principal tool
for studying single crystals, x-ray diffraction.
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July
2008
Russel J. Reiter, Professor of Endocrinology
at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San
Antonio, discusses the uniqueness of the antioxidant
melatonin. View Reiter's
Fast
Breaking Paper commentary (with figures) about this
subject from February 2008.
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July
2008
Anton M. Scheuhammer; "The paper offers a
succinct review of the current state of science regarding
the health effects in fish and wildlife of low-level
exposure to a high-priority environmental contaminant
(methylmercury). The paper is a synthesis of knowledge
regarding the toxic effects of environmental..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Dr. Keerti Shah; "...with cancer of the
uterine cervix, HPV is responsible for nearly 100% of the
cancers, and this is true for all parts of the world.
That’s very surprising, very unusual. It’s the
only example of a major human cancer that has a single
etiology. And that means whatever we learned..."
Special Topic of Human
Papillomavirus
July
2008
Yechiel Shai; "The increasing rate of
resistant bacteria to conventional antibiotics is a
worldwide threat. This article emerged as a byproduct of
increasing efforts to design new antibiotics with a new
mode of action. The paper summarizes studies aimed at
developing a new generation of antibiotics..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Paul E. Stackelberg; "Our paper was one of the
first to demonstrate that extensively used chemicals such
as prescription and non-prescription drugs, personal-care
products, detergent metabolites, plasticizers, flame
retardants, and fragrances are capable of surviving
conventional drinking..." Fast Moving Front,
July 2008
July
2008
Craig Stockwell, Andrew Hendry & Michael
Kinnison; "Our work provides a synthesis of
emerging knowledge and its extension into the field of
conservation biology. Contemporary evolution was
well-supported theoretically and enough empirical cases
were emerging to lead us..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Solene Turquety; "This paper describes and
evaluates a daily inventory of the pollution emitted by
extremely large fires that burned millions of hectares of
boreal forests in Alaska and Canada during the summer of
2004. It was highly cited for two main reasons. First of
all, the inventory developed was..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Wei Hua Wang; "The study on the plasticity of
bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is one of the hottest topics
in the field of materials science because of the great
scientific and technological importance of these materials.
But metallic glasses have an Achilles' heel: an almost
total lack of plasticity..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
July
2008
Anthony Westerling discusses
climate-ecosystem-wildfire interactions and climate change
impact assessments. Westerling has a corresponding
Fast
Breaking Paper comment from Feb. 2008 regarding this
research. Podcast, July 2008.
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July
2008
Anna Wu; "Breast cancer incidence rates in
Asia are historically one-sixth of the rates in US whites.
However, as Asians migrate to the US, our breast cancer
rates increase steadily and they now approach the rates in
US whites. My research interest is to understand the
underlying..." New Hot Paper,
July 2008
(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be added during July
2008)