Emerging Research Fronts

Field	Name	Description
Agricultural Sciences	RESVERATROL; MOLECULAR MECHANISMS; CHEMOPREVENTIVE EFFECTS; ANALOGS; KEY ROLE	Resveratrol can function as a cancer chemopreventive agent.
Biology & Biochemistry	SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITE; TOOTH ENAMEL EPR DOSIMETRY; 1949 NUCLEAR TEST; FIRST NUCLEAR TEST; SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE	Soil contamination around villages which were affected by the first USSR atomic bomb test in 1949 at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
Chemistry	FULLERENE BENZENE DISOLVATE; 10; 6]FULLERENE BENZENE 2; 6]FULLERENE BENZENE DISOLVATE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; 49	A significant improvement in the selectivity of fullerene trifluoromethylation reactions was achieved.
Clinical Medicine	SAUDI CHILDREN; HEMATOLOGIC RISK FACTORS; STROKE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR DISORDERS; INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS	Epidemiology, clinical features and risk factors for stroke in Saudi children.
Computer Science	LINEAR NETWORK CODING; MULTICAST NETWORK CODE CONSTRUCTION; NETWORK INFORMATION FLOW; POLYNOMIAL TIME ALGORITHMS; ALGEBRAIC APPROACH	The Max-flow Min-cut theorem for network information flow.
Economics & Business	INTERNET STOCK PRICES; TECH STOCK CARVE-OUTS; BORROWING STOCK; STOCK RETURNS; MARKET ADD	The market for borrowing and lending U.S. equities.
Engineering	ELECTRON TRANSFER ION/ION REACTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER DISSOCIATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL QUADRUPOLE ION TRAP; PROTEIN SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL ION PARKING	Peptide sequence analysis using a combination of gas-phase ion/ion chemistry and tandem mass spectrometry.
Environment/ Ecology	NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; PERIOD JUNE 1999-JULY 2002; MUCILAGE EVENTS; MUCILAGE FORMATIONS; MUCILAGE PHENOMENON	Visible mucilaginous aggregates investigated by underwater video cameras in the northern Adriatic.
Geosciences	EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD USING SYNTHETIC DATA; EARTH'S LITHOSPHERIC MAGNETIC FIELD DETERMINED; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODELS; INDUCED FIELD LEAKAGE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODELING	A new model of the quiet-time, near-Earth magnetic field derived from satellite data.
Immunology	HUMAN CD4(+)CD25(+) REGULATORY T CELLS; HUMAN REGULATORY CD4(+)CD25(+) T CELLS; CD4(+)CD25(+) T REGULATORY CELLS; FOXP3 PROTEIN EXPRESSION; FOXP3 MRNA by Alison Banham & Giovanna Roncador	The transcription factor FOXP3 plays a key role in CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cell function.
Materials Science	TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY; HEK293 TRANSFECTION USING CHITOSAN-DNA NANOPARTICLES; IN VITRO GENE DELIVERY MEDIATED; GENE CARRIERS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS by Kam W. Leong	Chitosan-DNA nanoparticles were prepared using a complex coacervation process.
Mathematics	GROWTH CURVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI UNDERLYING GROWTH TRAJECTORIES ; ONTOGENETIC GROWTH; MODELING NONSTATIONARY LONGITUDINAL DATA; TRANSFORM-BOTH-SIDES LOGISTIC MODEL	A parameterless universal curve that describes the growth of diverse species.
Microbiology	HIGHLY ATTENUATED SMALLPOX VACCINE PROTECTS MICE; HIGHLY ATTENUATED MVA SMALLPOX VACCINE; CONVENTIONAL SMALLPOX VACCINE VIRUSES; PROTECTION; PATHOGENIC VACCINIA VIRUS CHALLENGE by Igor Belyakov	An evaluation of replication-deficient vaccinia viruses as safer vaccines against smallpox.
Featured Front: Molecular Biology & Genetics	MAMMALIAN EXONIC SPLICING ENHANCERS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; SYNONYMOUS MUTATIONS; SYNONYMOUS SITES; NON-NEUTRAL EVOLUTION by Laurence D. Hurst	New evidence indicates that in molecular evolution synonymous mutations are subject to constraint because they affect splicing and mRNA stability.
Multidisciplinary	HUMAN ALTRUISM; EXPLAINING ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NATURE	Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is a powerful force and is unique in the animal world, and cannot be explained by gene-based evolution.
Neuroscience & Behavior	OBESITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD MOTIVATION; DEVELOPMENT; REWARD	Recent studies suggest that there are multiple 'reward' or 'reward-like' systems that control food seeking.
Pharmacology & Toxicology	DRUG-INDUCED QT INTERVAL PROLONGATION; CAUSE QT INTERVAL PROLONGATION; IN VIVO QT ASSAY; QT PRODACT; ACTION POTENTIAL ASSAYS USING GUINEA-PIG PAPILLARY MUSCLES	Action potential assay can be considered a useful method for assessing the risk of QT interval prolongation in humans in non-clinical safety pharmacology studies.
Physics	LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY; MASTER CONSTRAINT PROGRAMME; QUANTUM GENERAL RELATIVITY; CURVED SPACETIME LIMIT; TESTING	Testing the master constraint program for solving the Hamiltonian constraint in loop quantum gravity.
Plant & Animal Science	COLD STRESS-RESPONSIVE GENE EXPRESSION; ARABIDOPSIS TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS REGULATING COLD ACCLIMATION; COLD COMFORT; UNRAVEL PLANT REGULATORY MECHANISMS; PLANT ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS	Plants increase in freezing tolerance in response to low non-freezing temperatures.
Psychiatry/ Psychology	ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS; DEPRESSION INCREASE MORTALITY RISK; CARDIAC MORTALITY; EVEN MINIMAL SYMPTOMS	The link between depression symptoms and cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction.
Social Sciences, general	LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS; RANKING LAW SCHOOLS; TOP LAW SCHOOLS; RANK LAW SCHOOLS; US NEWS RANKINGS ERA	An examination of the methods of measuring law school success as well as individual contributions to that success.
Space Science	SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY FLUX POWER SPECTRUM; LY ALPHA FOREST; LYMAN ALPHA FOREST; LINEAR THEORY POWER SPECTRUM; LYMAN-ALPHA FOREST by Matteo Viel	Constraints on the mass of warm dark matter particles from an analysis of cosmic microwave background data and the matter power spectrum from Lyman-alpha forest data.
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