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interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
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featured within every Special Topic
and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments
from authors who have papers featured in
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June
2008
Rolf Apweiler; "The paper gives an update on
UniProt (Universal Protein Resource), which provides the
life science community with a freely accessible,
comprehensive, high-quality resource on proteins. UniProt
is a common development of three groups at the European
Bioinformatics Institute..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
David P. Bartel; "I think that virtually every
gene, at some point in the growth and development of the
animal, is going to be found to be influenced by microRNAs.
So people working with particular genes, more and more,
will be considering microRNAs when they’re
asking..." Featured Scientist
Interview,
June
2008
June
2008
Wout Boerjan, John Ralph, & Marie Baucher;
"Biofuels are high on the political agenda worldwide.
Rocketing oil prices and concerns about global warming have
made plants valuable alternative raw materials for making
liquid biofuels. Biofuels such as bioethanol,
biomethanol..." Emerging Research
Fronts,
June
2008.
June
2008
Peer Bork; "iTOL (for interactive tree of
life) is an online resource and tool that allows generation
and modification of phylogenetic trees which can then be
visualized in many ways. iTOL offers features such as the
integration of external data or the visualization of gene
transfers..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Sara Burt; discusses her current work on the
antibacterial properties of essential oils obtained from
plants. Podcast, June 2008.
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June
2008
Ashok Chauhan; "Our study has reported novel
findings and highlights ingenious ways to improve the
delivery of small therapeutic molecules using
cell-penetrating peptides. In this manuscript, we have
elucidated the possible mechanism of fusion protein entry
into cells..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Jay Cheng; "One of the big challenges in
converting lignocellulosic materials into ethanol is the
high lignin content that blocks the access of cellulase
enzymes or chemicals to cellulose during hydrolysis.
Therefore, a pretreatment is necessary to remove lignin
from the materials, prior to further..." Emerging Research
Fronts,
June
2008.
June
2008
Mark J. Daly; "We were studying a particular
region of chromosome 5 that had been implicated in
Crohn’s disease. We came to focus in that region on a
set of genes that we had high confidence were involved in
the disease. When we looked at the sequence, though,
we..."
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Interview
June
2008 Pascale Ehrenfreund; "Our research
field really benefited strongly from recent cometary
missions—in particular, Deep Impact and Stardust.
More meteorites have been analyzed in recent years with
advanced laboratory instrumentation and consequently our
knowledge on..."
Special Topic of
Astrochemistry
June
2008
Peter Güntert; "Thanks to the research
described in this paper and other innovations it has become
possible to determine the spatial structure of thousands of
proteins with unprecedented speed, thus extending our
knowledge about life at the molecular level..." Emerging Research
Fronts,
June
2008.
June
2008
A. Stephen K. Hashmi;
"This review covers
homogeneous gold catalysis from its early beginnings and
lists references up to mid-2007. Due to the enormous growth
of this area, our review is probably the last comprehensive
one. In the future, probably only certain aspects will
be..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Masami Yokota Hirai & Kazuki Saito; "This
paper reports on a general strategy for decoding the gene
function of
Arabidopsis
through an integrated analysis of rapidly emerging
multiomics, in particular by combining publicly available
and in-house transcriptome datasets with
metabolome..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Jan M. Kroon; "The development of DSSC should
be seen within the context of the total development of PV,
which is considered as a potentially key technology for
achieving a transition towards a sustainable energy supply
system for the 21st century. PV has the potential to cover
a significant..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Rudolf Krska; "The toxins in which I
specialize are produced by several species of the genus
Fusarium. They include trichothecene mycotoxins
such as deoxynivalenol and zearalenone. They are also very
stable and can survive cooking. The trichothecenes are not
acutely toxic but..."
Special Topic of
Mycotoxins
June
2008
Karl F. MacDorman & Hiroshi Ishiguro;
"This target article with commentaries and rebuttal is
seminal in the establishment of android science as a field
of inquiry. It makes the strongest case yet for android
science. Android science posits a synergistic relation
between developing..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Michael C. McAlpine & James R. Heath; "The
paper describes a reliable and scalable method for
constructing highly ordered single-crystal silicon nanowire
sensor arrays on plastic substrates. The sensitivity of
these sensors is competitive with the best reported
nanowire sensor..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Shin'ichi Nojiri; "The most important problem
in the field of particle physics is attempting to combine
an understanding of all particles and their interactions in
a unified way. Among these interactions, gravity has a
different nature when compared with other
interactions..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Luke A. J. O'Neill;
"Toll-like
receptors are key initiators of the immune response to
infectious agents. They are expressed on white blood cells,
and when they encounter a microbe, they sense it and then
activate the white blood cell to trigger an immune
response. The review describes..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008 Professor Sir John Pendry, Chair in
Theoretical Solid State Physics at The Imperial College,
London, discusses his work with magnetism from conductors
and enhanced nonlinear phenomena. Pendry has a
corresponding
Emerging Research Front Comment
from October 2007 regarding this research. He is a
Current Classics scientist (Eng.)
from Feb.
& Apr.
2008. Listen:
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June
2008
Jacques Rossouw; "The original paper has
withstood the test of time, and indeed a parallel study in
the UK (stopped within a few years of starting after WHI
published its findings) using the same estrogen and
progestin has published data that are very consistent with
our findings..." Featured Paper
Interview,
June
2008
June
2008
Mark C. Serreze; "The Arctic's floating sea
ice cover is quickly shrinking. While this decline is a
clear indicator of climate change, the processes of sea ice
loss are rather complex—many different processes are
involved. This paper attempted to put the different pieces
of the puzzle..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Nils Chr. Stenseth; "The paper describes a new
discovery; in addition, the paper also provides a new
methodology which had not previously been used in this
field. Indeed, much of our work rests on the analysis of
large data sets using fairly advanced statistical
techniques..." Fast Breaking Papers,
June
2008.
June
2008
Bo Zhou; "I think one reason is that, prior to
our article, there seemed to have been only one previous
paper which focused on the energy of unicyclic graphs.
Before this, people had not yet classified the group of
unicyclic graphs examined in this paper...." Emerging Research
Fronts,
June
2008.
(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be added during June
2008)