From the database of
Essential Science IndicatorsSM, this list of Fast
Moving Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the
current period of January 2003-February 28, 2009, and the previous period
of January 2003-December 31, 2008 (sliding 6-year period).
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Field
Research Front Name
Description
Agricultural
Sciences
OPTICAL BIOSENSORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL GLUCOSE BIOSENSORS;
OPTICAL CHEMICAL SENSORS
Potential uses of biosensors for food microbiology.
YOUNGER DRYAS "BLACK MATS"; YOUNGER DRYAS COOLING;
NORTH AMERICA; PRE-CLOVIS HUMAN COPROLITES
The revised age range for Clovis overlaps the
non-Clovis sites in North and South America, implying
that humans already lived in the Americas before
Clovis.
Immunology
AIRE(+) MEDULLARY THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELLS; THYMIC
REGULATORY T CELL DEVELOPMENT; FOXP3(+) REGULATORY T
CELLS SPECIFIC; ORGAN-SPECIFIC T CELLS
Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome characterized by
a spectrum of organ-specific autoimmune diseases is a
recessive Mendelian disorder resulting from mutations
in a novel gene, AIRE.
Materials
Science
PRUSSIAN BLUE NANOPARTICLES;
HIGH-CONTRAST ELECTROCHROMISM;
LAYER-BY-LAYER-ASSEMBLED POLYANILINE/PRUSSIAN BLUE
NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS
Prussian blue analogs are representative of
coordination polymers and are important in the field of
molecular magnets.
Bacterial communities of deep water masses of the North
Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vents are more
complex than previously reported for any microbial
environment.
The coupling of capillary electrophoresis with mass
spectrometry provides a powerful approach for rapid
identification of target analytes present at trace
levels in biological matrices.