Many interviews and comments include images of the
authors’ work featured in their papers.
April 2010
Edward Bullmore; "I think the paper has been
well cited because it was one of the first event-related
fMRI studies to show effects of depression and
antidepressant drug treatment on brain activation elicited
by “events” consisting of emotional faces
showing different intensities of sadness. More generally,
it was one of the first generation of fMRI..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010 Bartolome
Celli; "The way therapies were being measured
20 years ago is by how well they would bronchodilate
patients, how well they would improve lung function. And we
began to realize that many other things impacted outcome
independent of how affected lung function may be. We began
a series of studies..."
Special Topic of
Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
April 2010
Ignacio Cirac; "If you think about quantum
computation, not only quantum computing but applications
that quantum mechanics might have in information
technology, you see there's this very strange property of
quantum mechanics that is key, and it's this property of
entanglement. So it was very natural to..."
Special Topic of
Quantum
Computers
April 2010
James J. Collins; "We think our paper is
highly cited because it addresses an outstanding, important
problem in the emerging field of synthetic biology. We
developed an innovative methodology that enables one to
design and construct synthetic gene networks with
predictable functions, without the need for post-hoc
tweaking..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Sean Cutler; "At the moment, there is
tremendous interest in understanding how plants cope with
drought and other environmental stress so that this basic
understanding can be leveraged to improve agriculture. The
hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is a key regulator of stress
signal transduction and has been validated as a..." Fast Breaking
Papers, April 2010
April 2010
Luigi Colombo & Rodney S. Ruoff;
"Researchers have an intense interest in large area growth
of monolayer graphene so that they can use the material for
a wide range of fundamental studies and to explore its
potential for many applications. Our paper teaches how to
make monolayer graphene of essentially..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Josef Coresh; "I was working in heart diseases
in the 1980s, when Paul Whelton made me aware that the
epidemiology of kidney disease was really just beginning. I
started getting involved in that in the early 1990s, and it
turns out there were really fundamental things that had to
be done. By 2002, I was the vice-chairman..."
Featured Paper Interview
April 2010
Ayhan Demirbas; "This work has attracted
considerable interest because of motor fuel subject to the
daily lives of people maintains a keen interest. I think
the main reason is that the paper opened up an entirely new
area of engine fuel. Although the study does not describe a
new discovery and methodology, this paper..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Graeme L. Hammer; "The paper addresses a
salient, unresolved issue in agriculture – What
mechanisms have underpinned the continuous historical
increase in maize yield in the US corn belt? It provides
some interesting insights on this question and identifies a
likely mechanism not widely attributed previously..." Fast Breaking
Papers, April 2010
April 2010
Lars Hedin; "Nitrogen is the key nutrient that
controls the machinery of photosynthesis. That's why you
use fertilizer. Nitrogen is in the fertilizer. It allows
the photosynthetic machinery to be built. Nitrogen cycles
in natural ecosystems; it goes from the plant to the soil
and back up to the plant. It can be plentiful or..."
Featured Scientist Interview
April 2010
Andrew B. Holmes; "This is our comprehensive
follow-up to our highly cited review in Angewandte
Chem published in 1998. It simply attempts to be
comprehensive in the field of synthesis and properties of
conjugated polymers for light emitting devices, including
solid state lighting and flat panel displays..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Da-Wei Huang; "The DAVID Bioinformatics
Resources (DAVID) was one of the earliest bioinformatics
tools for the emerging needs of the high-throughput gene
functional annotation analysis of large gene lists, which
are usually derived from genome-wide biological studies
(such as from microarray or proteomics..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Tadashi Kokubo & Hiroaki Takadama; "This
paper describes how useful a simulated body fluid (SBF) is
in predicting the bone-bonding ability of a material. The
principal property required for bone substitutes is a
bone-bonding ability. Most of the scientists working in the
field of biomaterials for bone substitutes are..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010
Fabrice Martins; "Our paper provides a
calibration of several important parameters of Galactic O
stars (effective temperature, luminosity, ionizing
flux...). These quantities are valuable to a number of
astrophysists working on massive stars, star formation, the
interstellar medium, or even galactic structures..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010
Patrik Nosil; "This article is likely
highly-cited because it provides both a conceptual and an
empirical review of a newly emerged field of study -
'population genomics'.The article synthesizes our knowledge
concerning how natural selection impacts the genome, and
especially how natural selection creates..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010 Martin A.
Nowak is a Professor of Biology and of
Mathematics at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. He is the author of a
Current Classics paper in the field of Multidisciplinary
for Feb. 2010:
“Five rules for the evolution of cooperation,”
Science 314(5805)..."
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April 2010
Arthur Ouwehand; "What this study showed is
that it is interesting to know who is there but it is more
important to know what they are doing. That is an idea that
is coming now with metabolomics and it is likely to be
relevant for many conditions. This study was performed in
collaboration with Japanese..."
Special Topic of
Probiotics
April 2010
Rogelio Perez-Padilla; "Our institute was one
of the first hospitals concentrating on patients with
severe influenza and therefore we had the experience that
would soon be needed elsewhere. The problem was working on
the paper while, at the same time, having an increasing
workload due to patients suffering..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Ian Preston, Richard Blundell, & Luigi
Pistaferri; "This article is likely
highly-cited because it provides both a conceptual and an
empirical review of a newly emerged field of study -
'population genomics'.The article synthesizes our knowledge
concerning how natural selection impacts the
genome..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Michael J. Sailor; "It is the first
biodegradable fluorescent (quantum dot) nanoparticle to
safely image tumors and organs in live mice that could be
used for cancer detection and treatment in humans. It is
the first intrinsically luminescent nanoparticle that was
purposely designed to minimize toxic side effects..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
Jasit Singh; "The question of how social
networks influence flow of knowledge is not new. Yet there
have been relatively few studies rigorously examining this
link in the context of geographic patterns of knowledge
flow. My paper was one of the early contributions
systematically using rich individual-level data..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010
Anthony L. Spek; "It is generally a reference
to the use of one out of the many tools that are available
in a program package named PLATON that I developed. I would
describe it as a synthesis of knowledge that was
accumulated over more than 40 years of working in the field
of chemical crystallography..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010
Narumi Takahashi; "In this paper, we discussed
how crusts grow and how continental materials are generated
as a target of crustal structures of the Izu and Mariana
arcs in collaboration with seismology and petrology. As the
results of this study, we found that the Mariana arc has
continental materials inside despite..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010 Heidi
Terrio; "This paper is a descriptive study on
deployment-acquired traumatic brain injury (TBI). A TBI
is most simply described as an injury event that
results in an alteration or loss of consciousness. Data
was: 1) obtained from one Brigade Combat Team (BCT); 2)
included the percentage of soldiers with history of
clinician..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010 (Commentary for
February
2010 late entry.)
April 2010
David J. Thompson, Jean Ballet, Isabelle Grenier, &
Seth Digel; "The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on
the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is providing the first
new look at the high-energy gamma-ray sky in more than a
decade and with unprecedented sensitivity. Because gamma
rays are the most energetic form of light, they can only be
produced in processes that involve..." Fast Breaking
Paper, April 2010
April 2010
Yoshinori Tokura; "I always say that perhaps
the correlated electron materials represent an important
area of science we need to realize our dreams. Of course,
our dreams are not to know the ultimate nature of the
universe or such a big thing as that, but we are trying to
obtain very surprising or unconventional
functions..."
Featured Scientist Interview
April 2010
Judith Whitworth; "High blood pressure is one
of the world’s biggest killers, not just in
high-income countries, but also in low- and middle-income
countries. This paper sets out guidelines for treating this
very common problem worldwide. I became involved as I was
working in hypertension research and at the same time was a
Councilor..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010
April 2010
Frank Windmeijer; "The estimation method for
which my standard error correction works particularly well
is very popular, especially when using panel, or
longitudinal, data. As the usual standard errors are often
much too small when the number of observations are
moderate, the correction has been adopted..." Emerging
Research Front, April 2010, April 2010 (Commentary for
February
2010 late entry.)