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October
2009
Terry M. Allen & Pieter Cullis; "The paper
summarizes the state of the art, in 2004, for drug delivery
systems (DDS) and provides examples of several DDS that
have received clinical approval. At that time, there was
increasing publicity about, and interest, in nanomedicines,
and the field was in a stage..." Emerging
Research Fronts, October 2009
October
2009
Tim Behrens; "At Oxford I studied
information engineering and machine learning for my MEng
degree. I was interested in doctoral research, but could
not settle on an area. Then I became attracted to brain
imaging by an ebullient person, Professor Sir Michael
Brady, who is a leading figure in the disciplines
of..."
Featured Scientist Interview
October
2009
Pengcheng Dai; In this podcast, Pengcheng Dai,
Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
discusses his Current
Classics Multidisciplinary paper for
June 2009:
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October
2009
Jaume Flexas; "...this field of research has
exponentially increased in activity over the past 23 years,
as judged by the evolution of the number of publications on
this subject (Figure 2). Very renowned research groups in
photosynthesis—including those of Graham Farquhar,
John Evans..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Michael B. Kastan; "The control of cell cycle
progression after DNA damage and other cellular stresses is
an important determinant of cellular and organismal outcome
following stress exposure. DNA damage contributes to cancer
development, is a major mechanism by which we try to kill
tumor cells..." Emerging
Research Fronts, October 2009
October
2009
Kazutaka Katoh; "Our basic intention is to
develop practical tools that support actual biological
research. As mentioned earlier, demands on alignment
algorithms are extensively growing. First, the progress of
sequencing technology has resulted in large amounts of
sequence data, which require..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Eiichiro Komatsu; "The observational data of
temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic
microwave background radiation, obtained by the Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission, still maintains
its position as a prime source of information for
cosmologists..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Wolfgang J. Parak & Liberato Manna;
"Colloidal nanoparticles are an emerging new material which
has potential for use in many different disciplines ranging
from electronics (solar cells, LEDs) to life sciences
(fluorescence labels). Wet chemical synthesis of
nanoparticles has experience a..." Emerging
Research Fronts, October 2009
October
2009
Ralf Metzler & Joseph Klafter; "It
collects the recent developments in the fast growing field
of anomalous transport processes, covering subdiffusion and
emphasizing superdiffusion phenomena. The collected
evidence demonstrates that anomalous diffusion is
ubiquitous and reaches into a..." Emerging
Research Fronts, October 2009
October
2009 Terrance
Odean; "Much of my research documents mistakes
commonly made by individuals when investing and
estimates the cost of these mistakes. I hope that this
research can help educators to better prepare people
for investing, help financial advisors to counsel
clients, and help policymakers..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Oliver C. Mullins & Alan G. Marshall; "In
our paper, we utilize many different techniques to obtain a
robust value of asphaltene molecular weight. In particular,
we show the four different techniques of measuring
molecular diffusion and six different methods of mass
spectroscopy are now all yielding..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Sonia Ramos; "Cancer is one of the most
important causes of human deaths worldwide. Cancer is
largely environmentally determined, diet being a major
variable. Recently, dietary polyphenols have received much
attention for their health benefits, including certain
anticancer properties..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Marc A. Rosen, Ibrahim Dincer & Mehmet
Kanoglu; "The paper describes how exergy
methods, which are based on the second law of
thermodynamics, can be used successfully in increasing
efficiency and reducing environmental impact. With the
ever-increasing concern over global warming and
the..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009
October
2009
Ellen Sheehy; "Our paper represents an
important contribution to the field of organ donation in
that it provided a credible estimate of the size of the
brain dead organ donor pool in the United States based on
the gold standard methodology, review of hospital charts,
from a large sample of 30+ organ..." Emerging
Research Fronts, October 2009
October
2009
Paul Spudich & Jon B. Fletcher; "Our paper
has been highly cited because we published some unique
observations of earthquake-induced ground rotations just
ahead of a wave of interest in the subject caused by the
recent development of inexpensive rotation sensors. The
paper analyzes an unusually good..." Emerging
Research Fronts, October 2009
October
2009
Richard Stadler; "Acrylamide was first
discovered in food in April 2002 by the Swedish National
Food Authority that reported the presence of acrylamide in
certain types of food cooked at high temperatures. The food
industry was of course very concerned at this discovery and
took this finding very seriously..."
Featured Paper Interview
October
2009
Isei Tanida; "This is my first paper regarding
autophagy. Cooperating with Dr. Ohsumi's lab, I was
searching in the dark for the Atg7 protein and its mutant.
One day, Dr. Ohsumi informed us that
Dr.
Mizushima (he is now a professor at Tokyo Medical and
Dental University) had found the Atg12-Atg5
conjugate..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy
October
2009
Alan Thompson; In this podcast, Alan J.
Thompson, Director of the University College London
Institute of Neurology, in London, UK, discusses his
June 2009
Current Classics article from the field of Neuroscience
& Behavior: "Recommended diagnostic criteria for
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October
2009
Hongcai Joe Zhou; "It is one of the first
review papers focusing on hydrogen storage in metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs). It is a paper reviewing the most
recently reported research in hydrogen storage using MOFs
including the research results from my own research group.
It describes recent discovery of..." Fast Breaking
Papers, October 2009