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May 2010
David Altshuler; "In my mind, the primary goal
is not to predict disease, nor to personalize medicine.
It’s to understand the biological systems that
underlie common diseases—type 2 diabetes, for
example, which is my research focus. The problem that got
me started is very simple: why is it that some
people..." Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
May 2010
Rebecca Angeles; "Information Systems
Management Journal is an excellent journal for
comprehensive-type articles that cover a broad range of
issues on an upcoming hot topic. I wrote the article at the
right time when interest in RFID was just picking up right
around 2005. There were not too many introductory
articles..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Dan H. Barouch; "This paper showed that
heterologous rAd26/rAd5 and rAd35/rAd5 vaccine regimens
expressing SIV Gag afforded a greater degree of protective
efficacy against a high-dose SIV challenge than did the
homologous rAd5/rAd5 vaccine regimen expressing SIV Gag.
With the failure of the Merck rAd5 vaccine for
HIV..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Andrew Becker; "My interests in Physics and
Astronomy were piqued somewhat randomly around 7th-8th
grade when I picked up a used book by someone I had
occasionally seen on TV named Carl Sagan. The book was
called Contact and dealt in a very fascinating way
with the nature..."
Featured Scientist
May 2010
Robert G. Bergman & Jonathan A. Ellman;
"The manuscript describes elucidation and detailed
characterization of a new mechanistic pathway for reactions
in which carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds in organic molecules
are "activated" by ransition metals. This process allows
the C-H bonds to..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010 Peter
Calverley; "I started my medical
training at the University of Edinburgh where I met a
several inspiring respiratory physicians, particularly the
late Professors John Crofton and David Flemley who were
deeply concerned about the problems of respiratory disease
and particularly obstructive lung disease. As
a..."
Special Topic of
Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
May 2010
Gregory M Cole; "Our paper shows that a small
natural molecule with established preclinical (National
Toxicology Program) and clinical trial safety directly
binds and inhibits amyloid beta oligomer formation and
toxicity in vitro and enters the brain and binds abeta in
vivo where it dramatically reduces amyloid..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Scott C. Doney; "Over the past few years,
ocean acidification has emerged rapidly as an important
issue touching broadly on many aspects of marine chemistry,
biology, and even geology. Our paper is a timely resource
that provides one of the few concise overviews of the
current state of knowledge..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010 Paul
Emsley; "Paul Emsley is the first CCP4 fellow
in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of
Oxford and coauthor, along with Kevin Cowtan of the
Department of Chemistry at the University of York, of the
Chemistry Current Classic paper for February, 2010: "Coot:
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May 2010
Philippe Froguel; "This paper is the
only success story of the familial positional cloning of
obesity genes, a strategy combining genome-wide linkage
analysis and candidate gene studies. ENPP1 is a natural
inhibitor the insulin receptor which is associated with
insulin resistance and thus to T2D. Furthermore,
insulin..."
Special Topic of
Obesity
May 2010
Stefan Gillessen; "This paper summarizes the
current status of a large project conducted at the
Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE),
led by Reinhard Genzel. Since 1992, the group has been
observing the motions of stars in the very center of the
Milky Way, apparently in Keplerian motion..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Paolo Gionchetti; "This paper was the
first double-blind, placebo-controlled paper showing the
efficacy of probiotics in IBD. Pouchitis can be considered
as a recurrence of IBD in patients operated on for
ulcerative colitis. We showed that using probiotics was
effective in preventing relapses of
pouchitis..."
Special Topic of
Probiotics
May 2010
Gaston Godin; "This systematic review presents
an overview of the factors defining healthcare professional
intention to adopt appropriate practice and the role of
intention in the prediction of behavior. It also presents a
summary of the variability between the type of professional
(e.g., nurses, physicians..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Ron Kessler; "Why do you think your paper is
highly cited? Although it was traditionally believed that
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
spontaneously remitted in adolescence, evidence has been
accumulating to suggest that a substantial proportion of
children with ADHD continue..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Jonas Korlach & Steve Turner; "The paper
represents a new methodology which synthesizes discoveries
in other fields such as nanophotonics, nucleotide
chemistry, surface chemistry, enzymology, optics, and
bioinformatics. The contents of an individual's DNA are
largely responsible for all..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Vijay K. Kuchroo; "This was one of the first
papers not only reporting the identification of
differentiation factors for Th17 cells but also showed that
there is a reciprocal relationship between inhibitory
iTregs and proinflammatory Th17 cells. It was a new
discovery in terms of identifying differentiation factors
for..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Daniel Lidar; "My main focus is on ensuring
that quantum computers can work reliably in spite of their
extreme fragility. Quantum computers are particularly
susceptible to decoherence, which is the result of their
inevitable interactions with their environments.
Decoherence can be thought of the process..."
Special Topic of
Quantum
Computers
May 2010
Yu-Ming Lin; "Graphene is a material that has
generated enormous research interest and activity in the
past few years because of its unique electrical properties
and its potential for use in future electronics. This paper
is likely well-cited because it presents one of the first
experimental demonstrations of gigahertz..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Juan J. Nieto & Donal O'Regan; "The paper
combines both linear and nonlinear functional analysis. In
particular, we use the celebrated Lax-Milgram theorem with
critical point theory and the theory of impulsive dynamical
systems. See photo of Peter D. Lax pictured above with
Juan. J. Nietro. The paper..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Chris Parker; "Parasitic weeds continue to be
a major threat to crops in a range of ecologies, attracting
widespread research efforts. Financial support for this
research depends at least partly on evidence for its
economic importance. Yet gathering such evidence itself is
costly and fraught with..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Ashish V. Pattekar & Mayuresh V. Kothare;
"This paper describes one of the earliest attempts to
integrate an entire chemical reactor on a silicon chip,
namely, a miniaturized hydrogen production
chemical-plant-on-a-chip for micro fuel cell applications.
As rechargeable battery technology has matured..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Rodney S. Ruoff & Sungjin Park; "Colloidal
suspensions of graphene platelets and chemically modified
graphene platelets are of interest for both fundamental and
practical reasons. Colloids have a wide range of uses, such
as in electrical energy storage, paints, inks, composites,
paper materials, and so on..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
John Sabo; "In my mind, the primary goal is
not to predict disease, nor to personalize medicine.
It’s to understand the biological systems that
underlie common diseases—type 2 diabetes, for
example, which is my research focus. The problem that got
me started is very simple: why is it that some
people..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Steven Sollott & Dmitry Zorov;
"Mitochondria are abundant organelles residing inside each
of the bodies’ cells that perform major functions
both in maintaining cellular health, and, under certain
circumstances, regulating or even causing their death. They
produce much of the energy needed to fuel vital..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Eli Sutter & Peter W. Sutter; "At the time
our paper was published, graphene had shown extraordinary
properties, such as high charge carrier mobilities,
chemical inertness, and extreme mechanical strength. But a
scalable method for large-scale synthesis, necessary to
pursue further..." Fast Moving
Front, May 2010
May 2010
Huiqiu Yuan; "Most of the high Tc
superconductors, e.g., the cuprate oxides, crystallize in a
layered crystal structure, showing rather anisotropic
properties. Therefore, two-dimensionality has been regarded
as a prerequisite condition for achieving high temperature
superconductivity..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010
May 2010
Yong Zhang; "This paper reports on the
synthesis of near-infrared (NIR)-to-visible (VIS)
upconversion fluorescent nanoparticles and their use in
biological applications. Although upconversion fluorescent
nanoparticles present a relatively new area of research,
the wide attention that this paper has received..." New Hot Paper,
May 2010