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February 2010 Peter
J. Barnes; "I have always been aware that COPD
is a major clinical problem, but I only started to do
research into COPD around 10 years ago. At that time very
little was known about the underlying cellular and
molecular mechanisms, so we started to use some of the
research approaches that we had developed" Special Topic of
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
February 2010
David A. Brent; "Suicidal events in the
treatment of adolescent depression occur early in
treatment, are more common in those who are severely
depressed and are not responding to treatment, and are
predicted by high suicidal ideation at entry, drug and
alcohol use, and family conflict. The use of
trazodone..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Ricardo Dolmetsch; "Store operated calcium
channels are critically important for many biological
processes including activation of the immune system,
activation of platelets and repair of muscle cells. These
channels are formed by Orai which is an ion channel at the
cell membrane, and Stim which is an ER protein..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Joaquín Dopazo; "The paper describes a
web-based bioinformatic software that helps to understand
the functional implications of the genes selected in a
genomic experiment. Since its publication, there has been a
continuous growth in the demand of this type of tools. In
the particular case of FatiGO, this..." Emerging
Research Fronts, February 2010
February 2010
William S. Epling; "This paper was the first
comprehensive review of the science behind and application
of, NOx storage and reduction catalysis. At the time, NOx
storage and reduction catalysis was being studied to
address the challenge of NOx to N2 reduction in an
oxidizing environment, such as that found in diesel
engine..." Emerging
Research Fronts, February 2010
February 2010
Despo Fatta-Kassinos; "Over the past several
years, pharmaceuticals are considered as an emerging
environmental problem due to their continuous input and
persistence into the aquatic ecosystem even at low
concentrations. This continuous release into the
environment may constitute a long-term potential
risk..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Michael S. Filigenzi; "The work done by my
co-workers and I on the analysis of melamine came in
response to the pet food poisoning incident in 2007. This
incident illuminated previously unknown issues regarding
melamine adulteration of Chinese pet food additives and the
toxicity of melamine and its analogs. An incident involving
melamine's..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Michael M. Gottesman; "Resistance of cancers
to chemotherapy, either intrinsic or acquired, is the major
impediment to the successful treatment of cancer. After
over 40 years of study, we are beginning to catalog the
major mechanisms of multidrug resistance, and this review
summarizes the state of the field, summarizing..." Emerging
Research Fronts, February 2009
February 2010
Yi Guan; "H1N1 is the first human influenza
pandemic of the 21st century. Obviously, our paper has been
highly cited due to the fact that the 2009 pandemic
influenza virus is still an ongoing concern. Our paper
answered the question of how and where the H1N1 pandemic
virus was generated. These are new findings which
convey..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Mokhtar Hassaine; "During the past two years,
several promising attempts to extend the anti-de-Sitter
space/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to
conformal non-relativistic physics have attracted much
attention. This is motivated by the fact that several
non-relativistic conformal field models that govern physics
exist..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Alan Hastings; "The issue of spatial spread is
central to many areas of ecology, and the number of
invaders spreading spatially throughout the world is
increasing. This is an issue of great applied interest
because the cost to control spreading invasive species is
extremely high. For example, many insect pests are
spreading..." Emerging
Research Fronts, February 2009
February 2010 Dejian
Huang; "Dejian Huang is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Chemistry and also Acting Director of
the Science and Technology Program at the National
University of Singapore. He is first author of a Current
Classics paper in the field of Agricultural Sciences for
Aug. 2009,
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February 2010
Jose-Luis Jimenez & Ingrid Marie Ulbrich;
"The atmosphere is full of tiny particles, too small to
see, but they are a deadly pollutant that kills millions of
people every year and also impact climate change. These
particles contain thousands of different "organic" chemical
compounds, i.e. those composed primarily of..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Sophien Kamoun; "At the moment, effector
biology is a hot topic in the fields of plant biology and
plant pathology. Understanding the molecular function of
effectors (molecules secreted by plant-associated organisms
to manipulate their host plant) is currently viewed as
critical for a mechanistic understanding..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Chris Karp; "There is an ongoing epidemic of
allergic asthma, particularly in westernized countries.
Allergy, and allergic asthma, occurs when a particular kind
of immune response, harmful to the responding host, is made
against specific proteins (allergens). Allergic people tend
to mount these harmful immune..." Fast Breaking
Papers (Late commentary entry added in Feb.
2010 for Dec.
2009)
February 2010
Takashi Kato & Takuma Yasuda; "This paper
describes a simple and versatile strategy for the
development of electro- and photo-functional
nanostrucrtured materials based on p-conjugated molecules.
The fabrication of well-defined complex architectures based
on functional molecules within molecular
condensed..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Alex McBratney; "At first this paper was a
review, then, after some thought, it became a synthesis,
and then, after some further thought, it was clear that
there was a more generic approach that could be developed.
This is a good example of going from review to new
ideas..." Emerging
Research Front (Late commentary entry added in Feb.
2010 for Dec.
2009)
February 2010
Corrie S. Moreau; "Ants occupy almost every
terrestrial niche on the planet, so understanding how they
came to this ecological dominance and the time frames
involved is an intriguing question. The results of our 2006
research published in the journal "Science" suggest that
ants are considerably older..." Emerging
Research Fronts, February 2010
February 2010
Michael R. Raupach; "The paper received
significant press comment because of the massive interest
and policy significance of trends in CO2
emissions as drivers of climate change, and the
implications of current trends for the task of reducing
emissions. An acceleration in emissions makes the task of
mitigation..." Emerging
Research Fronts, February 2009
February 2010
David Sholl; "Metal organic frameworks (MOFs)
have generated a great deal of excitement because of the
diverse range of crystalline structures than can be
synthesized, but the development of large-scale
applications of MOFs is only just beginning. This paper
highlights a path forward for identifying MOFs..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Michael Strauss; "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
has produced a map of the Universe, a census of the
heavens, that can be used in every area of astronomical
research, from studies of asteroids in the Solar System to
the most distant quasars. It is a fully public dataset,
that has been used by thousands of researchers..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010
Stevo Stevic; In this Fast Breaking Paper
commentary, Stevo Stevic talks about his 2009 J MATH
ANAL APPL paper, "On a new integral-type operator from
the Bloch space to Bloch-type spaces on the unit ball,"
from the field of Mathematics. Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010
February 2010 John
Sumpter; "...we have moved on from
concerns about killing wildlife with mass-produced
chemicals such as oils and pesticides. What we have
realized in the last 10 years is that we have contaminated
the natural world with many chemicals that we all get
exposed to, that do not cause acute toxicity,
but..." Special Topic of
Bisphenol A (BPA)
February 2010
Marc Veldhoen; "In December of 2009, the paper
"TGF beta in the context of an inflammatory cytokine milieu
supports de novo differentiation of IL-17-producing T
cells," (Veldhoen M, et al., Immunity
24(2): 179-89, February 2006) was named a Current Classic
in the field of Immunology. At present, the paper
ranks..."
Featured Paper
February 2010
Russell S. Winer; "The topic of new media in
marketing is very hot with the expansion of ways that
customers are communicating with each other and the ways
that companies are communicating with customers. Most
companies are very unsure about how to use the new media
and how much to spend..." Fast Breaking
Papers, February 2010