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July
2009
Nader G. Abraham & Attallah Kappas; "The
paper collates and brings up-to-date much of the current
knowledge relevant to pharmacology and to clinical medicine
concerning the enzyme heme oxygenase (HO), which
catabolizes the breakdown of the oxygen-carrying
respiratory pigment called heme..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Nick Barker; "The intestine is a popular
choice for scientists wanting to study the regulation of
tissue renewal because it is the most rapidly self-renewing
organ in the body, with the epithelium being completely
regenerated every 5-7 days in mice and humans. It has been
known for many decades..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Geoffrey Burnstock & Vera Ralevic talk
about their Current
Classic paper in the field of Pharmacology for
February, 2009:
"Receptors for purines and pyrimidines," Pharmacol.
Rev. 50[3]: 413-92, 1998, in this podcast. Also,
Vera
Ralevic was previously interviewed as a featured
scientist in ScienceWatch.com.
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July
2009
Dale Frail; "I've always been interested in
high-energy astrophysics. Many high-energy astrophysical
phenomena (pulsars, active galactic nuclei, supernovae,
etc.) emit at radio wavelengths. High-energy electrons
radiate at these wavelengths as they interact with magnetic
fields. In 1993 the GRB mystery was..."
Special Topic of
Gamma-ray Bursts
July
2009
Werner Hacke; "This article is the full text
of the update of the European Stroke Initiative (EUSI)
Recommendations for Stroke Management, as outlined in the
European Stroke Guidelines. It is a document that will
influence the way stroke is treated in Europe and beyond,
since it has subsequently..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Douglas Hanahan & Robert Weinberg;
"Douglas Hanahan, Professor of Biochemistry at the
University of California, San Francisco, along with
coauthor Robert A. Weinberg, a founder of the Whitehead
Institute of Biomedical Research at MIT, are coauthors of
"The hallmarks of cancer," Cell 100 [1], 57-70,
2000, discuss..."
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July
2009
Kosuke Imai, Gary King, & Elizabeth
Stuart; "The results in our article have the
potential to increase the effectiveness of causal inference
in research across many fields of science. Most scholars
make causal inferences, and all those making causal
inferences use either experimental or observational
studies..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Mikkel Jørgensen; "Our paper is a
review and therefore naturally tends to be cited more than
original research papers would. However, it may have had an
advantage in being the first review on this special topic.
Polymer solar cells are a new and promising technology
which may, in time, compete..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Dora M. Kovacs; "This review paper outlines
our current understanding of the role of cellular
cholesterol in AD. Cellular cholesterol levels and
distribution do not always correlate with blood
cholesterol. However, the toxic molecule in AD called
amyloid-? or A? peptide is generated from cells,
necessitating..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Norbert Krause; "The use of gold is currently
at the center of interest in transition metal catalysis. It
is the unique ability of gold catalysts to selectively
activate carbon-carbon double and triple bonds in the
presence of many other functional groups that makes it
highly valuable for the synthesis of complex target
molecules..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Baerbel-Maria Kurth; "For the first time in
the history of the Federal Republic of Germany
representative data from about 18000 participants aged
between 0 and 18 years of age exist for the precise
assessment of the physical and emotional health of the
young German population..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Timothy M. Lenton & Hans Joachim
Schellnhuber; "Our paper captures the
Zeitgeist of a growing group of climate scientists and
commentators who perceive that human activities are already
pushing Earth's climate past regional "tipping points."
This concern has been heightened by recent observations of
abrupt climate change in the Arctic..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Jianjun Li; "Mass spectrometry has been widely
used in the analysis of biomolecules, such as mass
spectrometry-based approaches for proteomics, lipidomics,
glycomics and metabonomics. Coupling of capillary
electrophoresis to a mass spectrometry instrument (CE-MS)
provides a highly sensitive..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Benjamin List; "Our paper is a review covering
“enamine catalysis” as an area of catalysis
that has grown considerably during the last nine years.
While appreciated as an enzymatic reaction mechanism,
chemists hardly made use of this powerful concept over the
last century, especially not in asymmetric
catalysis..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
George Luther III; "People want to understand
how metals are bound and tied up in sediments. Sulfide
phases are particularly important. For the most part these
are solid phases. In this case, if metals wind up in
pyrite, then the question is, are the metals going to be
remobilized in some oxic condition..."
Featured Scientist Interview
July
2009
Paola Marigo; "...we provide theoretical
photometric data useful for the interpretation of a large
variety of astronomical data. Specially important is the
inclusion of the mid-infrared spectral window, which probes
new physics and has become more widely accessible by new
satellites such as Spitzer and AKARI..." View
Article
July
2009
Andrew Mathews & Colin MacLeod; "This
paper is a review article of recent research discoveries
and methods, but its principal contribution is to
synthesise this knowledge. We reviewed findings on
selective attention, interpretation, inhibitory control and
associative memory that have been used in..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
David Nathan; "Actually, what I'm probably
best known for is the Diabetes Control and Complications
Trial (DCCT), which was a multi-center, NIH-funded study in
type 1 diabetic patients. But the major results from that
were published in 1993, before the Special Topics analysis.
We eventually published..."
Special Topic of
Diabetes
July
2009
Ingrid Repins; "There is a currently a great
deal of interest in thin-film photovoltaics. This interest
has been generated by a number of factors, including
improvements in the technology, First Solar's profitability
in manufacturing thin-film photovoltaics, plausible paths
to grid parity put forth by several..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Jörg Rieskamp; "The idea that people do
not always solve a cognitive problem with the identical
cognitive tools has been assumed in various areas of
psychology. Even children already have access to different
cognitive strategies that could be applied to identical
problems. This assumption explains why people..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
David Rubinsztein; "Many neurodegenerative
diseases, including Huntington's disease, are caused by
intraneuronal aggregate-prone proteins. These proteins
generally cause disease by gain-of-function mechanisms,
thereby acting as 'toxins.' Previously, we had shown in
cell culture that such aggregate-prone..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy
July
2009
Lawrence R. Schaeffer; "It was the first paper
that looked at the effects of genome wide selection on
dairy cattle bull progeny testing, and showed that the
gains in improved genetic progress and lowered costs could
be very significant. I think the paper sort of woke
everyone up..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Donald Schneider; "The SDSS's great
steps forward were obtaining digital, multicolor images of
a large area of the sky to brightness levels that were
significantly deeper than any previous survey with similar
sky coverage (for example, the Palomar Sky Survey), and
high-quality spectra of more than one..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
July
2009
Santiago Schnell; "In our paper we unravel a
new debate in the field of systems biology: What is the
appropriate modeling formulation to investigate reactions
inside cells? The biological revolution unleashed by
systems biology is taking an unfashionable stand against
reductionism. Systems biologists..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Martin Alexander Schwartz; "Atherosclerosis is
a chronic inflammation of specific sites in artery walls.
Cholesterol and other risk factors determine how
atherosclerosis progresses, however, the forces that
flowing blood exert on the endothelial cells that line our
arteries are responsible for initiating
atherosclerosis..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Takashi Uemura & Susumu Kitagawa; "The
concept described in this paper can be extended to produce
a variety of nanomaterials, and actually, many works on
coordination polymer nanoparticles have appeared recently.
Formation of nanomaterials based on coordination polymers
would display..." Fast Moving
Fronts, July 2009
July
2009
Eric Van Cutsem; "It's a new synthesis of
knowledge covering important clinical data which looks at
the impact of imaging on treatment for metastatic
colorectal cancer. Rapid tumor regression and tumor
shrinkage in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
when treated with cetuximab predicts good..." New Hot
Papers, July 2009
July
2009
Paul van Helden; "Genetics and immunology: the
population of Africa has not been exposed to TB for
centuries like some other parts of the world, thus the
people of Africa may be inherently more susceptible.
Poverty and nutrition: TB is a disease of poverty and poor
nutrition. The poorest continent on earth is... "
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
July
2009
Peidong Yang; "This paper has been very well
received by the community, judging by the large number of
citations in the past decade. In retrospect, this work
could be considered as one of the milestones in the
nanowire research field. Back in 1999-2000, only very few
research groups had concentrated efforts on..."
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