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January 2010
Geoffrey J. Barton; "The paper describes the
latest version of the Jalview multiple sequence alignment
editor and analysis workbench. Jalview is one of the most
powerful tools available for manipulating sequence
alignments and integrating annotations from biological
databases around the world. As a consequence..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Jonathan Coleman; "I started working in
nanotechnology in the area of
polymer nanotube composites back in 1995-96. If you add
nanotubes to polymers, you get plastics in composite
form that are much stronger and stiffer. So we learned
to make these stiff strong plastics. Then in 2002, I
was working in Dallas..."
Featured Scientist
January 2010
Elias Fereres; "I believe that there are two
primary reasons. First, the paper provides a background for
a variety of research topics aimed at conserving water in
the domain of agricultural water use. The second reason is
that it is a timely work on an issue—deficit
irrigation—which recently has become quite
important..." Fast Moving
Front, January 2010
January 2010
Kate Fitzgerald; "Innate
immunity—immunity that occurs naturally as a result
of a person's genetic constitution or physiology and does
not arise from a previous infection or vaccination—is
a fast-paced, exciting field. Over the last 10 years or so
several classes of germline encoded innate immune
receptors..." Fast Moving
Front, January 2010
January 2010
Hoong-Kun Fun; "This article is relatively
highly cited because quite a large number of researchers
are interested in the properties of hydrazones and their
derivatives which includes antimicrobial, anticonvulsant,
analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet,
anti-tubercular, anticancer, and anti-tumor
activities..." Fast Moving
Front, January 2010
January 2010
Antoine Guisan; "over the last decade, my work
has largely concentrated on understanding drivers of
species ranges, quantifying species-environment
relationships in ecological models, and using these models
ultimately for predicting species distributions. My
approach is thus deeply..." Special Topic of
Climate Change
January 2010
Alexander A. Kon; "This paper provides a novel
framework for understanding how empirical research can
inform bioethics. In the past, many have argued that
empirical work cannot inform normative ethics, however in
"The role of empirical research in bioethics" I demonstrate
not only how such research..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Doo Sung Lee; "After biodegradable
polyester-based in situ gelling thermosensitive
hydrogels were first developed by Dr. Sung Wan Kim and his
co-workers at the University of Utah about a decade ago,
these novel intelligent materials have attracted worldwide
interest and received intensive study for use in drug
delivery..." Fast Moving
Front, January 2010
January 2010 Rick
Holley; "Rick Holley is a Professor of Food
Science, Food Microbiology, and Food Safety in the
Department of Food Science at the University of Manitoba in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His 2005 FOOD
MICROBIOL paper, "Improvement in shelf-life and safety
of perishable foods by plant essential oils..."
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January 2010 Terence G.
Langdon; "Terence G. Langdon is the William E.
Leonard Professor of Engineering at the Viterbi School of
Engineering in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles, CA. His 2006 PROG MATER SCI paper,
"Langdon, TG, "Principles..."
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January 2010
Chad Mirkin; "Occasionally real science plays
out just like the movies: A brilliant experiment is
followed by a "Eureka!" moment, and a new vision of the
future reveals itself. This was the case in 1996 when the
Northwestern University chemist Chad Mirkin witnessed a
solution of DNA-assembled nanoparticles change
from..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
January 2010
David Morens; "I think the impact on public
health and health policy planners and on medical
practitioners has been great and is likely to continue for
some time. The information has already substantially
impacted our federal response to the current swine
H1N1 pandemic.
Physicians now have to rethink preventing
bacterial..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Ulrich S. Schubert; "The paper describes the
usage of an inkjet printer for a broad field of
applications. For example, the manufacturing of multicolor
polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED), polymer electronics,
three-dimensional printing, and also controlled drug
release. These fields that had been mentioned.." Fast Moving
Front, January 2010
January 2010
Jay Shendure; "The paper describes the
synthesis of several methodologies and their extension to a
new direction. Specifically, we describe the efficient
generation of tens of thousands of molecular inversion
probes by a release from programmable microarrays, and then
use these molecular inversion..." Fast Moving
Front, January 2010
January 2010
Yukihisa Shimada; "As part of an international
research effort, the AtGenExpress consortium was organized
to make an important contribution to the scientific
community by the accumulation of large-scale transcriptome
datasets. This data has been available without charge for
public access since 2004..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Jason Tylianakis; "Global changes to the
Earth's ecosystems are possibly the greatest combined
challenge that humanity must face. These changes are often
studied independently, but their effects are likely to be
interactive, which could exacerbate or even mitigate the
effect of each driver in isolation..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Frans VandeWerf; "It provides guidelines on
the management of acute myocardial infarction as outlined
by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Acute
myocardial infarction can be defined from a number of
different perspectives related to clinical,
electrocardiographic (ECG), biochemical, and
pathological..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Maw-Kuen Wu; "This paper describes the
discovery of a new Fe-based superconductor which has the
simplest structure among all the Fe-based superconductors.
It also contains materials that are much easier to handle
than those found in other iron-pnictide superconductors, so
that it has attracted the..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010
January 2010
Yoshinori Yamamoto; "Heterocycle synthesis is
extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry and also
to the material sciences, in some parts, because most drugs
contain heterocyclic structures. For example, rather old
medicines such as penicillin and vitamins, and the more
recently..." New Hot Paper,
January 2010