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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
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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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Fast-Moving Fronts,
New Hot Papers,
Fast-Breaking Papers,
Current Classics, and
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authors’ work featured in their papers.
October
2008
Merav Ahissar & Shaul Hochstein; "It
introduces a coherent conceptual framework to behavioral,
electrophysiological, and imaging data of perception and
perceptual learning. In addition, it tackles the exciting
issue of what brain activity enters consciousness..." Emerging Research
Front,
October
2008
October
2008
Gary M. Bokoch; "Our current studies involving
Paks demonstrate that Pak1 and Pak2 are critical regulators
of cell motility by controlling the functioning of the cell
leading edge. This has important implications for Paks in
both cancer and neurogenesis/mental retardation
syndromes..." Emerging Research
Front,
October
2008
October
2008
Angel Borja; "In 2000 we developed and
published in Marine Pollution Bulletin an index of
quality—a Marine Biotic Index (AMBI)—which has
since been applied to different anthropogenic impacts in
many geographical areas—throughout the European
Union, Uruguay, Brazil, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Marcella Calfon is the lead author of a
citation classic article on the protein IRE 1. Here she
discusses her career and research in the field of
cardiovascular physiology. She has been named a
Current Classics scientist (Multi.)
for Apr.
2008.
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October
2008
Massimo Filippi; "In this paper, we
assessed the effect of interferon beta-1a on the occurrence
of relapses in patients after the first clinical episode of
central nervous system involvement and brain MRI lesions;
these patients are at high risk of conversion to clinically
definite MS. Patients were randomly..."
Special Topic of
Multiple Sclerosis
October
2008
Jean-Antoine Girault; "In this article we
review the mode of action of dopamine on target cells at a
molecular level, focusing on an important enzyme named
“extracellular signal-regulated kinase” or ERK.
Recent evidence shows that activation of ERK is important
for long term cellular alterations which underlie
behavioral changes..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Ji-Huan He; "This paper suggested a new
approach, in which a traditional Chinese drug called Yunnan
Baiyo is used as an additive, in order to produce
nanoporous microspheres by electrospinning, which has
always been recognized as an efficient technique for the
fabrication of continuous..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Rolando Herrero; "...we have team of more than
100 people that is fully dedicated to research on cervical
cancer. We have trained scientists, epidemiologists,
physicians, microbiologists, molecular biologists, and
statisticians. The Guanacaste Project is a large research
center, fully dedicated to HPV..."
Special Topic of Human
Papillomavirus
October
2008
Satoshi Ikemoto; "Neuroscientists are
fascinated by dopamine and how it mediates reward-related
functions. This paper presents anatomical and functional
refinements of the way we understand a dopaminergic
projection system that has been implicated in reward. These
refinements in our anatomical understanding..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Yasumasa Iwatani & Judith G. Levin; "A3G
is currently under active investigation by a large group of
researchers because it has potential application in AIDS
therapy. For this reason, work in the field is focused on
elucidating the mechanism of A3G’s antiviral activity
and papers that contribute new insights..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Jae-Hong Kim; "This paper answers one of the
key questions regarding the fate of carbon nanotubes in the
natural aqueous environment, a timely subject considering
that there are widespread concerns regarding environmental
implication of various nanomaterials. The paper found that,
despite its extremely..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Jonathan Knight; "The paper demonstrated
that one could design and fabricate optical fibers with
properties which had previously been unobtainable. We
proved experimentally that a very simple model of the
fibers gave reliable predictions of their properties. The
paper had a big impact because..."
Special Topic of
Photonic
Crystals
October
2008
Gregory J. McHugo; "The Dartmouth Psychiatric
Research Center has developed and disseminated
evidence-based practices for 20 years, so our involvement
in the national project to implement evidence-based
practices was a natural consequence of our ongoing research
and collaborations..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Giovanni Onida, Lucia Reining & Angel
Rubio; "This paper is focused on the
description of excited state properties, by further
developing and uniting two different previously existing
theoretical approaches. Namely, we have established the
bridge between Many-Body Perturbation Theory
(MBPT)..." Emerging Research
Front,
October
2008
October
2008
Robert M. Plenge; "our study represents one of
the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) in patients
with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA). The second is that two independent
alleles at a single locus (6q23/TNFAIP3) were identified
that contribute to risk of one disease, in this case, RA.
This is an emerging..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Eqab M. Rabei & Dumitru Baleanu; "The
paper is highly cited because it describes a new method in
the emerging field of fractional calculus. Also the field
of the physical applications of fractional calculus is a
hot subject. This new methodology is quite useful in
discussing fractional dynamics and its
applications..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
Osamu Terasaki; "Mesoporous" means the
material has pores 20 to 100 angstroms in diameter. These
materials are crystals, which mean the pores are imbedded
in amorphous silica and are arranged periodically. Then we
can study entirely new materials, like nano-network
materials..."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous
Materials
October
2008 Robert Tibshirani ; "The human genome,
as I've mentioned, has maybe 20,000 to 30,000 genes in it.
You’re trying to study them—you want to know
about all of those genes. But there could be hundreds,
maybe thousands, involved in any specific disease process.
The problem is that the number of human samples
you..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
October
2008
Arthur Ragauskas; "Our paper recognized that
the development of sustainable, secure, and environmentally
compatible energy generation would become the research
challenge for our generation. Furthermore, the scope and
breadth of this global challenge required a
multidisciplinary approach focused on..."
Special Topic of
Biofuels
October
2008
William G. Read; "The paper describes an
assessment of the accuracy and precision of a rather unique
water vapor data measured by satellite in the atmosphere
from 8km to 20km. At these altitudes, the atmosphere is
very dry and cold. Water vapor concentrations are 100 to
1,000 times smaller..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
October
2008
David Reznick; "This paper was a comparative
study of aging in fish derived from natural populations
that experience differences in mortality rate. I looked at
populations that either do or do not live with predators
and have shown in earlier work that those that live with
predators suffer higher mortality rates.
Evolutionary..." Emerging Research
Front,
October
2008
October
2008
Jen Sheen; "This paper provides the first
conclusive genetic and biochemical evidence that a specific
Arabidopsis
hexokinase (HXK1) acts as glucose sensor and integrates
nutrient, light, and hormonal signaling to modulate plant
growth, a fundamental problem linked to many areas of plant
research..." Emerging Research
Front,
October
2008
October
2008
Jim Woodgett; "...I cloned the GSK-3 genes in
1990 and within two weeks of that publication two other
papers appeared from fly geneticists who'd cloned a key
gene involved in developmental patterning. The sequence
showed their gene was GSK-3. That was our first clue that
there was more to this kinase..."
Featured Scientist Interview,
October
2008
October
2008
Matthias Wuttig & Noboru Yamada; "This
research could help pave the way for a new generation of
storage devices. These materials could combine the benefits
of the speed of fast volatile memories and the longevity of
non-volatile memories, i.e., they could serve as materials
for a universal memory. ..." Fast Breaking Paper,
October
2008
(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be added during October
2008)