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June
2009
Bo Ahrén; "The paper published in 2002
was the first clinical study in which an inhibitor of
dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) was examined in subjects
with type 2 diabetes. The study was the proof-of-concept of
the strategy to inhibit DPP-4 as a therapy in type 2
diabetes. The study was performed at five..."
Special Topic of
Diabetes
June
2009
Jan Åke Jönsson; "I am a Ph.D.
(1978) and professor (2000) at Lund University, Sweden,
where I have spent practically all my scientific life, now
coming close to retirement. I have been teaching analytical
chemistry and environmental science for decades and my
research has been centered in..."
Featured Scientist Interview
June
2009
Dario C. Altieri; "The article covers various
aspects of the biology of survivin, a gene that has
attracted considerable interest for its ability to regulate
multiple critical signaling pathways in cancer. The review
describes our current knowledge of survivin and its
functions, and how it can be exploited for novel
molecular..." Emerging
Research Fronts, June 2009
June
2009
Peter Andersen; "in this paper we
reviewed a recent development in the field of TB diagnosis,
and that was the use of the interferon gamma tests for the
detection of TB infection. The reason why this was very
timely was due to our identification of the ESAT-6 and
CFP-10 antigens that are both highly..."
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
June
2009
Lawrence W. Barsalou; "...it summarizes a new
area of research that is having a significant impact on
multiple disciplines associated with psychology, cognitive
science, cognitive neuroscience, and social neuroscience.
Many new and intriguing results have been reported that
have significant implications..." Fast Breaking
Papers, June 2009
June
2009
Wei Chen; "This is a review article that
summarized the research projects undertaken in my lab. It
also introduced several related activities from among other
groups. Several of our projects have been of interest to
public readers. This paper contains much new information
and I think this may have been why it has..." Fast Breaking
Papers, June 2009
June
2009
Mehrorang Ghaedi; "The influences of the
analytical parameters, including pH and sample volume, were
investigated. The effects of matrix ions on the retentions
of analytes were also examined. The recoveries of analytes
were generally quantitative. The method has been
successfully applied for these metals..." Fast Breaking
Papers, June 2009
June
2009
Paul A. Insel; "...my colleagues and I
summarize findings for a wide variety of hormone/drug
receptor systems. The recognition that cells have what are
akin to "signaling factories," some of which are located in
lipid/membrane rafts and caveolae (rafts that contain the
protein caveolin), has..." Fast Breaking
Papers, June 2009
June
2009
JoAnn Manson; "I’m a physician
epidemiologist with training in Internal Medicine and
Endocrinology. I’ve had a long-term clinical interest
in the care of patients with diabetes, but it wasn’t
until my Endocrinology fellowship in the early 1980s that I
became interested in doing research on the prevention and
risk prediction..."
Special Topic of
Diabetes
June
2009
Johnny L. Matson; "With the recent surge in
interest surrounding Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), the
pressure is on to develop evidenced-based interventions
which can be successfully implemented at young ages. This
article is most likely highly cited because it gives a
concise overview of early intervention..." Fast Breaking
Papers, June 2009
June
2009
Peter Mészáros; "I became
fascinated with high-energy astrophysics and cosmology
during postdoctoral stints at Princeton and Cambridge (UK).
I worked on early versions of cold dark matter cosmology
and black hole accretion problems, and until 1990 I
concentrated mainly on black holes and..."
Special Topic of
Gamma-ray Bursts
June
2009
Ziad Nasreddine & Howard Chertkow; "The
MoCA test design, user friendliness, and the robust
confirmation of its validity to detect MCI and early AD
compared to the MMSE has made this test very valuable to
clinicians around the world, and has also made the
validation study article one of the most-cited..." Emerging
Research Fronts, June 2009
June
2009
Ümit Özgür; "This review
article represents a cohesive treatment of all aspects of
zinc oxide (ZnO), a semiconductor material which is widely
investigated for applications in photonics, transparent
electronics, acoustics, and sensing. Even though first
investigations of this material dates back to
1930s..." Emerging
Research Fronts, June 2009
June
2009
Joel R. Primack & Brandon Allgood; "Dark
matter halos, as far as we can tell, surround all
observable galaxies. Based on the 'double dark'
cosmological model (dark matter and dark energy), these
halos and the galaxies within them have formed via
halo-halo merging. In order to do this research..." Emerging
Research Fronts, June 2009
June
2009 David Sheehan discusses his
Current Classics
(Feb. 2009)
paper: “The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric
Interview (MINI): The development and validation of a
structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and
ICD-10,” J CLIN PSYCHIAT: 59:22-33, Suppl.
20, 1998. Read an interview with
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June
2009
Vladislav Vyshemirsky; "Our paper is the first
ever to describe a formal methodology to assess how well a
number of mathematical models describe a specific
biological mechanism. This ability to rank plausible models
based on experimental evidence is of enormous importance to
life scientists..." Fast Breaking
Papers, June 2009
June
2009
Shinya Yamanaka; "The 2007 Cell paper
describes how we generated human iPS cells. We added one
procedure—lentiviral transduction of ecotropic
receptor of retrovirus before transduction of the same set
of the four genes into adult skin cells by retrovirus. The
procedure improved the efficiency of retroviral..."
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