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August
2009
Peter J. Barnes; "Asthma and chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are amongst the most
prevalent diseases in the world and both are increasing,
especially in developing countries. In both diseases, there
is a chronic inflammation that is orchestrated by immune
mechanisms..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009
August
2009
Clifton E. Barry, III; "Isoniazid is one of
the most important TB drugs. Of the 7.8 million people who
get diagnosed with TB, virtually all of them will receive
isoniazid. It's a hugely important drug. We had no effort
in our lab in that drug. It was an area I was only
peripherally interested in. I had read a lot of stuff...
"
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
August
2009
Joshua Bloom; "In the summer of 1994, I went
to work with Ed Fenimore at Los Alamos National Laboratory
for my first research project. With astronomy, and with Dr.
Fenimore in particular, it's very easy for a young person
to catch the research bug: it's a wonderfully vast physical
science that we know so little about..."
Special Topic of
Gamma-ray Bursts
August
2009
Antonia Calafat; "This manuscript reported the
first data on human exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) in the
United States. Specifically, our data were the first to
confirm that exposure to BPA occurs among a diverse
non-occupationally exposed group US adults. Biomonitoring
(i.e., measurement of environmental..."
Special Topic of
Bisphenol A (BPA)
August
2009
David Cardwell; "I was an undergraduate
at the University of Warwick, located in the heart of
England. My bachelor degree is in physics, and I remained
at Warwick for a Ph.D., on the topic of inelastic gamma-ray
scattering (nothing to do with superconductivity!). After
that, in 1986, I joined one of the UK’s few
remaining..."
Special Topic of
High-Temperature
Superconductors
August
2009
Marcus S. Cooke; "The breadth of the topic is
a clear strength of the review, it stretches from the
description of events at the level of individual
nucleobases, via repair and mutation, to the possible role
of such damage in disease—right from conception, this
was my plan for the review. It is therefore..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Mark Cooper; "I'm an endocrinologist by
training, and I've been interested in diabetes and kidney
disease since the early 1980s. Then in the late 1980s,
several groups suggested that diabetic kidney disease was
not only related to high glucose, but also that there may
actually be a hemodynamic pathway within..."
Special Topic of
Diabetes
August
2009
Hong Ding; "..this paper provided the first
convincing experimental evidence of a new type of s-wave
pairing symmetry for the newly discovered iron-based high
temperature superconductors by observing the
Fermi-surface-dependent nodeless superconducting gaps in an
optimally doped pnictide using..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009
August
2009
Mohammad Reza Ganjali; "This work is the first
report on PVC membrane micro-sensor for potentiometric
determination of erbium ion in the world. Erbium is one of
the lanthanoid members which their selective determination
is one of the challenging fields of research. Finding a
suitable ionophore which..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009
August
2009
Saji N. Hameed & Toshio Yamagata; "The
discovery of an ocean-atmosphere coupled mode named the
"Indian Ocean Dipole mode" (IOD)—Saji NH, et
al., "A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean,"
(Nature 401[6751]: 360-63, Sep 23
1999)—radically changed prevailing paradigms on the
role of the Indian Ocean..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Randy Jirtle; "Both animal experiments and
human epidemiological studies demonstrate that maternal
nutritional privation during pregnancy is adversely
associated with an offspring’s susceptibility to
diseases and neurological disorders after birth. Our 2003
Molecular and Cellular Biology paper..."
Special Topic of
Epigenetics
August
2009
Rex E. Jung & Richard J. Haier; "For many
years, research on the nature of intelligence was mostly
limited to psychometric methods. We published the first
neuro-imaging study of intelligence in 1988, and it showed
intelligence test scores were correlated to regional brain
function..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009
August
2009
Anne Kahru; "...one of the first papers that
showed that the solubilisation of metal-containing
nanoparticles is the key factor in their (aquatic)
toxicity. Metal oxide particles do not necessarily have to
enter the cells to induce the toxic effects but the
solubilised ions will “do the job”. That, of
course, does..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009
August
2009
Chang-Yong Lee; "Our paper addresses the issue
of fast convergence in evolutionary programming, which
mostly uses optimization algorithms inspired by biological
evolution and natural selection. Fast convergence is an
important practical question in the optimization algorithm
and there have been many..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Peter X. Ma; "This paper reviews an important
new direction in the fields of biomaterials, drug delivery,
and tissue engineering/regenerative medicine. The paper
systematically discussed a biomaterial (scaffold) design
strategy that mimic extra cellular matrix (ECM) structures
and biological activities in the..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009
August
2009
Noboru Mizushima; "I graduated from the School
of Medicine at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 1991,
and finished the internal medicine residency program in
1993. I started my research career with studies on
molecular immunology and received a Ph.D. in 1996. After
that, I joined Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi’s..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy
August
2009 Danny Porath is Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Physical Chemistry at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and lead author of the
Current Classic
Multidisciplinary paper for
February, 2009,
entitled: "Direct measurement of electrical transport
through DNA molecules," NATURE 403[6770]: 635-38,
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August
2009
N. Ravishankar & Aditi Halder; "Our paper
addresses a very fundamental problem in nanostructure
growth relating to the formation of single-crystalline
wires of a high-symmetry material. The problem is one of
selecting one crystallographic direction/facet for growth
over several equivalent directions/facets..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Dirk Schübeler; "Dirk Schübeler, a
Senior Group Leader in Epigenetics at the Friedrich
Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel,
Switzerland. Dr. Schübeler is the lead author of the
most-cited paper listed in the Research Front Map titled,
"Dna and
Rna Sequencing," from
Top Topics
for April
2009..." Podcast. Listen:
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August
2009
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer; "The focus
of the article is clearly on a synthesis of knowledge and
the creation of a new, promising research line. On the one
hand, there is cognitive load theory with a strong basis in
cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Learning is
described as the construction..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Glenn A. Waychunas; "The paper describes modes
of toxin/nutrient collection by nanoparticles, notably by
aggregation, which has not been adequately addressed in the
literature. Additionally, new data on the growth of
nanogoethite particles are shown, suggesting that an
aggregation mechanism..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Tristram O. West; "The paper quantitatively
estimates soil carbon sequestration rates following changes
in cropland management. Potential changes in soil carbon
stocks differ with land management, environmental
variables, and across climate regimes. Analyzing existing
data from previously..." Emerging
Research Fronts, August 2009
August
2009
Terrie Williams; "My education was initially
in medicine. At Rutgers University I switched from Human
Physiology to Comparative Exercise Physiology for my Ph.D.
when I found that animals were capable of extraordinary
feats of athleticism and disease resistance—at least
compared to the human animal. What I found most fascinating
was that wild mammals, including mink, cheetahs..."
Featured Scientist Interview
August
2009
Zhihong Xu; "The paper reports a comprehensive
study of both method testing and application in quantifying
soil carbon and nutrient pools under different forest
management practices, which has not only local implications
for sustainable forest management but also
international..." Fast Breaking
Papers, August 2009