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"This paper reports the molecular requirement of neuronal
activity-inducible Gadd45b in epigenetic DNA demethylation
in..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
November 2010
"This paper reviews an important new direction in the fields of
biomaterials, drug delivery, and tissue
engineering/regenerative..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Aug. 2009
"This introductory report, initially an one-hour long invited talk
given at the 5th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts,
involves..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
April 2011
"This target article with commentaries and rebuttal is seminal in
the establishment of android science as a field of
inquiry..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Jun. 2008
"The purpose of the present study was to better characterize TDP-43
pathology in ALS. The only problem in..."
New Hot Paper,
Nov. 2008
"The discovery of the planetary system orbiting HR 8799 (a nearby
star in the constellation Pegasus)..."
Fast Moving Front,
Mar. 2010
"The paper investigates an important method in many fields, the
extent to which a variable transmits or mediates..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008
"This paper is a review article of recent research discoveries and
methods, but its principal..."
New Hot Papers, Jul.
2009
"The puzzling thing about meningococcus is that it is ubiquitous;
most people carry many meningococci harmlessly. These
paper..."
Special Topic of
Meningitis, September 2010
"...in pharmacology and toxicology (and all the disciplines that
use drugs as tools), the terms agonist, antagonist..."
New Hot Paper,
Mar. 2008
"It is becoming increasingly recognized that mathematical modelling
may..."
New Hot Papers, Sep.
2009
"The possible "dieback" of the Amazon forest is one of the iconic
tipping points in discussion about the impacts of climate..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
December 2010
"...how under-prepared we are as a nation/world to address an avian
flu pandemic. We can all assert broad claims..."
New Hot Paper,
Mar. 2009
"This paper discusses biological and preclinical data on the
relevance of small-molecule Cyclin-dependent..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
July 2010
"Our paper represents a synthesis of knowledge and is based on the
publications of many researchers in the field..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Apr. 2008
"Currently, a number of groups are investigating the biology of
tumor initiation, invasion..."
New Hot Papers, Sep.
2009
"The paper describes the first quantitative and proteome-wide study
of lysine acetylation, an important post-translational..."
New Hot Papers,
November 2010
"Colloidal nanoparticles are an emerging new material which has
potential for use in..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Oct. 2009
"The study describes a new discovery that estrogen treatment was
associated with lower levels of subclinical coronary
artery..."
New Hot Paper,
Nov. 2008
"...Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. I’ve had a long-term
clinical interest in the care of patients with diabetes..."
Special Topic of
Diabetes, Jun. 2009
"This paper is at the intersection of two fields of research which
have become popular. On the one hand, it summarizes..."
Emerging Research Fronts,
Apr. 2008
"With this comprehensive paper, we survey and discuss the role of
symmetry breaking and its..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Dec. 2009
"The aim of the study was to characterize microorganisms involved
in the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in alpine..."
Special Topic of Oil
Spills, December 2010
"...we provide theoretical photometric data useful for the
interpretation of a large variety of astronomical data..."
New Hot Papers, Jul.
2009
"In our paper, we utilize many different techniques to obtain a
robust value of asphaltene..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Oct. 2009
"The program described in the paper implements a variety of new
sequence analysis methods but in 95% of cases these are..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
December 2011
"What we were really getting down to in this paper is the idea that
managers matter. Managers can be better or worse..."
Featured Paper, September 2010
"This paper came at a pivotal time for the field of multiferroics.
Science magazine had put the field of
multiferroics..."
New Hot Papers, Sep.
2009
"Our paper provides a calibration of several important parameters
of Galactic O stars (effective temperature, luminosity..."
Emerging Research
Front, Apr. 2010
"The broad impact of the 2004 MISQ paper continues to..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"Nationally, on average, one out of every five college students is
a frequent binge drinker. That means they’re getting
drunk..."
Special Topic of
Underage/College Drinking, Jan. 2009
"In our paper, we utilize many different techniques to obtain a
robust value of asphaltene..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Oct. 2009
"Sepsis represents a substantial healthcare burden, and there is
limited epidemiologic information about the demography..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Mar. 2009
"This paper came at a pivotal time for the field of multiferroics.
Science magazine had put the field of
multiferroics..."
New Hot Papers, Sep. 2009
"I had been working on the lesions of primates experimentally
inoculated with 'slow virus disease' kuru,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob..."
Special Topic of
Alzheimer's Disease, May 2011
"This paper is a review article of recent research discoveries and
methods, but its principal..."
New Hot Papers, Jul. 2009
"Superstring theory is the only candidate for the theory of
everything..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"The syndrome entity named metabolic syndrome were proposed by
several groups as an atherogenic syndrome with multiple..."
Special Topic of
Metabolic Syndrome, August 2011
"We started studying what might be responsible for the death of
nerve cells in Alzheimer’s disease. That was when the
amyloid..."
Special Topic of
Alzheimer's Disease, July 2011
"...calcium plays major roles in the formation and function of
neuronal circuits, including those involved..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
September 2010
"We can now teach undergraduate students how to make almost-perfect
block copolymers on a bench in two hours..."
Featured ScienceWatch.com Interview, Feb. 2008
"...mushrooms including fruiting bodies and mycelia may possess
better antioxidant..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2010
"This paper describes a first proof-of-principle experiment ...
intractable major depression..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Dec. 2008
"The paper describes a reliable and scalable method for
constructing highly ordered single-crystal..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Jun. 2008
"At first this paper was a review, then, after some thought, it
became a synthesis, and then, after some further thought..."
Emerging Research Front
(Late commentary entry added in Feb. 2010 for
Dec. 2009)
"The more highly educated people are and the better universities
they attend the more migratory they become..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
November 2010
"In this paper, we demonstrated that schizophrenia may be caused by
many different, individually rare severe mutations..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"Our paper is widely cited presumably because it includes so large
a sample of cultures, examines the best established model..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
July 2011
"This paper was a review of the state of knowledge about
interactions between two important pathogens, influenza..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
July 2010
"The article reviews the current thinking about ecological
indicators and, to a lesser extent..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Nov. 2008
"Mode-water eddies can generate extraordinary diatom biomass and
primary production at depth. These blooms are sustained
by..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Dec. 2008
"The Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center has developed and
disseminated evidence-based..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Oct. 2008
"This review brings together the key publications over recent years
since the cloning of the gene in 1999..."
New
Hot Paper,
Sep. 2008
"A significant advance in neuro-oncology in the past 10 years has
been the establishment of consortia of academic centers..."
Special Topic of
Glioblastoma, October 2011
"This is the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) published
on bipolar disorder, a common mental illness of unknown..."
New Hot Papers, May 2009
"For more than 16 years my major research interest has been the
cause and prevention of type 2 diabetes and
cardiovascular..."
Special Topic of
Metabolic Syndrome, July 2011
"I had a long history of studying the physiology of arsenic
metabolism in wild plants, but researching rice..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Nov. 2009
"Our habit to produce energy by burning fossil fuels changes the
climate system. Civil societies and policy makers..."
New
Hot Papers,
July 2010
"Vaccination is a big hot issue now, and there’s not a lot of
support from those same organizations to make
authoritative..."
Special Topic of
Cholera, February 2011
"after discussing futuristic applications of WMNSs, we analyze the
state of the art in algorithms..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"We demonstrated in this study that the majority of the pigs in
swine herds in the United States were infected by swine
HEV..."
Featured Scientist Interview, Jan. 2008
"Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) derives its power by
considering sets of genes that correspond to a biological..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
May 2008
"I became fascinated with high-energy astrophysics and cosmology
during postdoctoral stints at Princeton..."
Special Topic of
Gamma-ray Bursts, Jun. 2009
"It collects the recent developments in the fast growing field of
anomalous transport processes..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009
"The underlying theme that interests me is the use of chemistry of
molecules as probes of the physical conditions in interstellar
space..."
Special Topic of
Astrochemistry, Jul. 2008
"This paper begins to fill that gap by comparing family
ownership—even within the founding generation—to lone
founder ownership..."
New Hot Papers, May 2009
"This paper describes a structure with a strange co-existence of
atomic order and disorder. This combination challenges
expectations..."
New
Hot Paper,
Mar. 2008
"This manuscript describes a way of making a new class of
nanoparticles with properties that can..."
Fast Moving Front, Mar. 2010
Chad Mirkin"Occasionally real science plays out just like the
movies: A brilliant experiment is followed by a "Eureka!"
moment..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview, Jan.
2010
"Our article provides an overview of important personal and
situational...."
Emerging
Research Front,
Dec. 2008
"I believe that our review article provided all the necessary
information for all kinds of research conducted within this
area..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Apr. 2008
"I graduated from the School of Medicine at Tokyo Medical and
Dental University in 1991, and finished the internal..."
Special Topic of
Autophagy, Aug. 2009
"Experimental neuroscience studies are capable of showing that when
a subject is exposed to an environmental..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
July 2010
(commentary for
May 2010 [late entry])
"My main focus of research is in mathematical statistics and
applied probability, particularly in relation to spatial data
sets..."
Featured
Scientist Interview,
Jul. 2008
"...our federal response to the current swine
H1N1
pandemic. Physicians now have to rethink preventing
bacterial..."
New Hot Paper, Jan. 2009
"Ants occupy almost every terrestrial niche on the planet, so
understanding how they came to this ecological..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Feb. 2010
"Funding for Alzheimer's disease research has increased compared to
where it was in 1980s, which was minimal. Compared..."
Special Topic of
Alzheimer's Disease, October 2011
"Identification of preclinical AD requires Alzheimer biomarkers,
and the paper combines both imaging biomarkers (notably
using..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
February 2011
"Our article provides an overview of important personal and
situational...."
Emerging
Research Front,
Dec. 2008
"The complex nature of current scientific goals, such as, e.g., the
detection of a weak dark matter..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009
"As the result of a collaborative effort of 18 scientists, this
paper provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive..."
New Hot Papers, May 2009
"My main focus of research is in mathematical statistics and
applied probability, particularly in relation to spatial data
sets..."
Featured
Scientist Interview,
Jul. 2008
"This initial study is limited by the fact that we induced brain
states in anesthetized animals. Because the techniques
used..."
New
Hot Papers,
September 2010
"This paper was revolutionary in the sense that it proposed a
totally new view of the evolution of our solar system and
provided..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
May 2011
"...our federal response to the current swine
H1N1
pandemic. Physicians now have to rethink preventing
bacterial..."
New Hot Paper, Jan. 2009
"Ants occupy almost every terrestrial niche on the planet, so
understanding how they came to this ecological..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Feb. 2010
"The paper is highly cited because it provides a new method for
constructing asymptotic expansions and for improving..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
December 2010
"Our article provides an overview of important personal and
situational...."
Emerging
Research Front,
Dec. 2008
"The field of hair cell synaptic transmission is an exciting and
growing one involving a number of excellent groups. Studies will
likely address the molecular anatomy and physiology...."
Featured Scientist, June 2011
"The complex nature of current scientific goals, such as, e.g., the
detection of a weak dark matter..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009
"To me, mesoporous silica materials are an ideal playground for
materials synthesis with wide possibilities of structure..."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous Materials, Jul. 2008
"The paper proposed a unique and clean signal to directly test a
neutrino mass..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Mar. 2009
"In our paper, we utilize many different techniques to obtain a
robust value of asphaltene..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Oct. 2009
"The paper addresses an important issue in mangrove and coral reef
ecology; the degree to which coral reef fish populations..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Jan. 2009
"We describe the release of methane during Northern Summer on Mars,
and its subsequent rapid removal..."
Fast
Breaking Paper, Aug. 2010
"This paper studies different methods for extracting knowledge from
sequence information..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"Salinity is a topic that attracts significant attention in plant
science, as it is of both intellectual..."
New Hot Papers, Sep. 2009
"This paper offers a novel concept for addressing the energy and
environmental issues that will arise during the
transition..."
Fast Moving Fronts, May 2009
"I believe that one of the key reasons why this paper is being
cited is because it describes the interactions between..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Dec. 2009
"This work grew out of a multidisciplinary collaboration between a
biochemist interested in..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Feb. 2008
"I started work in the 1970s. At that time some of the biological
theories, or explanations, for schizophrenia were..."
Special Topic of Schizophrenia, Mar. 2008
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