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August
2008
David L. Armstrong & Lutz Birnbaumer;
Calcium ions trigger many of the fundamental cellular
processes on which human health depends, but too much
calcium is toxic to cells, so cells sequester calcium ions
in intracellular organelles and strictly regulate their
release. Many proteins are..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Siegfried Blechert & Stephen Connon; "Our
paper brought together the leading developments in the
field of olefin cross-metathesis up to 2002 in a single
article. While experts in the area would have been aware of
these advances already, it was our hope that the article
could bring..." Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Xavier Bosch; "Invasive cervical cancer
in the majority of countries in the world is still the #1
or #2 cancer in women. Where there is screening
activity—the Pap test—the fatalities have
dropped significantly, and in these populations it’s
typically the sixth or seventh most common cancer in
women..."
Special Topic of Human
Papillomavirus
August
2008
Wolfgang Brück; "Multiple sclerosis is
characterized morphologically by the key features of
demyelination, inflammation, gliosis, and axonal damage. In
our study, we investigated the occurrence of acute axonal
damage determined by immunocytochemistry for amyloid
precursor protein (APP) which..." Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Sampurno Bruijnzeel; "...there has been so
much debate on the hydrological role of (tropical) forest
in recent years that many people have become confused and
simply do not know what to believe anymore. The issue is
rather complex indeed, in that the effect of deforestation
or reforestration..." Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Jeff Dyer & Harbir Singh; "The main
contribution of the "relational view" paper was that it
outlined a theory for considering dyads and networks of
firms as a key unit of analysis for explaining superior
individual firm performance. The strategy field is
fundamentally concerned with explaining..." Featured Paper
Interview,
August
2008
August
2008
Richard A. Flavell; "T cells orchestrate the
development of immune responses. Our findings reveal a
regulatory circuit whereby T cell-produced TGF-beta1
controls T cell responses, which can be exploited for the
immunotherapy of diseases mediated by T cells..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Olivier Gascuel leads a research group at
LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France. Here he discusses his work
in bioinformatics and comparative genomics. Gascuel has
been named a Current Classics scientist
(Env./Eco.) for
Aug. 2008,
and has provided commentary in a
Fast Breaking Paper in the same
field.
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August
2008
Andre Geim; "Graphene is a single atomic plane of graphite.
Graphite is a stack of graphene planes. It’s very
important to emphasize that all matter, all materials
we knew before this, were and are three-dimensional
materials. Even those that were called one- or
two-dimensional were..."
The Science Watch® (Print Version) Newsletter
Interview
August
2008
Milford Hanna; "This manuscript reviews the
ways vegetable oils and animal fats can be processed for
use as mobile fuels with a particular emphasis on the
state-of-the-art of the transesterification process, which
is the generally accepted method of converting fats and
oils to biodiesel today..."
Special Topic of
Biofuels
August
2008
Bernhard Keller & Idun Reiten; "Our paper
contributes to the study of certain systems, called 2- and
3-Calabi-Yau categories, which are of two and three
dimensions, respectively. These categories have turned out
to be important in a branch of theoretical physics called
string theory..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Paul Kleihues; "It summarizes the current
status of brain tumour diagnosis, with major emphasis on
surgical pathology and genetic profiles. It contains a
concise description of new tumor entities contained in the
4th edition of the WHO Classification of Tumours of the
Central Nervous System, published..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Gerhard Knothe; "This paper summarizes and
evaluates several important fuel properties—for
example, cetane number, viscosity, and oxidative
stability—that are determined by the major components
of biodiesel, i.e., alkyl esters of fatty acids. By
combining insights on the..."
Special Topic of
Biofuels
August
2008
Brian Kobilka; "This paper provides the first
high-resolution picture of a hormone-activated G
protein-coupled receptor. Crystallization of these membrane
proteins is very challenging. The discovery was achieved by
the application of several complementary methods. This
paper and..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Alessandra Lanzara; "Graphene, a single layer
of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, has shown
great application potential as a host material for
next-generation electronic devices, with properties that
may exceed current silicon-based technology. For example,
electrons in graphene..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Christopher Lipinski discusses his 1997
article from Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews,
"Experimental and Computational Approaches to Estimate
Solubility and Permeability in Drug Discovery and
Development Settings." Also, read a
New Hot Paper comment
from
Jan. 2006. He also appeared as a
Current Classics scientist for
Feb. &
Apr.
2008.
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August
2008
Toshisada Nishida; "This paper reports on the
number of infants female chimps have in their lifetime, the
causes of death, long-term population dynamics, the extent
of female transfer, which is influenced by the size and
composition of the unit group and size of the overall local
community..." Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Guilherme V. Polanczyk and Luis Augusto Rohde;
"This study comprehensively addresses the distribution of
ADHD around the world, which is essential for estimating
the burden associated with the disorder. Moreover, we
further studied the sources of variability in
prevalence..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Markus Reichstein; "One big unknown and "final
frontier" is what is happening below ground, i.e., in the
soil. Soil contains about four times more carbon than the
atmosphere, and annual global soil respiration fluxes are,
for example, 10-fold higher than human fossil fuel
CO2 emissions..." Featured Scientist
Interview,
August
2008
August
2008
M. Santosh; "This paper presents the discovery
of a special type of high-grade metamorphic rocks from the
northern margin of the North China Craton, within the Inner
Mongolia region, carrying mineral assemblages diagnostic of
formation under extreme thermal conditions associated with
the..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Takashi Shinohara; "This is a complete
byproduct of our research on gene targeting experiments
using spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs). We first described
our long-term culture of SSCs in 2003. These cells, which
we named "Germline Stem" (GS) cells, can make sperm in the
testis..." Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Steven Shoelson; "Obesity and diabetes have
reached epidemic proportions. Our studies identified a
molecular connection between them, which helped show how
obesity promotes insulin resistance and diabetes, and also
identified a new way of treating diabetes. As a result, in
addition to..." Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Nils Chr. Stenseth; "We demonstrate that
climate fluctuations affect the dynamics of populations
through how the ways in which individuals within and
between different species interact. Furthermore, since we
do this within a classical ecology conceptual framework, we
brought mainstream" Emerging Research
Front,
August
2008
August
2008
Bao-Lian Su; "This paper provided a
comprehensive study on the synthesis mechanism of highly
ordered mesoporous materials. This paper was one of first
papers to use a special type of neutral surfactant molecule
(polyoxyethylene alkyl ether) as a templating agent to
tailor the organization..."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous
Materials
August
2008
David Teece is Professor in the Haas School of
Business at UC, Berkeley. Here he discusses his concept of
“applied industrial organization.” Teece has
been named a Current Classics scientist (Eco.
& Bus.) for
Apr. 2008.
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August
2008
Claus Wasternack; "This is an invited review
on recent aspects of biosynthesis, signal transduction, and
the action of jasmonates (JAs) in plant stress responses,
growth, and development. JAs became an exponentially
growing interest during the last decade due to their role
as..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
W. Michael Wood-Vasey; "Our paper presents the
latest observational results on the nature of dark energy
and concludes that dark energy appears consistent with an
90-year-old idea of Einstein's, which postulated that space
itself had such repulsive energy suitable for counteracting
the attractive force of gravity...." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008
August
2008
Ali Yazdani; "The paper described both a new
methodology for studying superconductivity and an important
new finding. Specifically, the paper shows how the
superconducting state forms, starting with small nanoscale
patches with superconducting-like..." Fast Breaking Paper,
August
2008