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An interview with:
Dr. Phillip Zamore
April 2007 |
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Special Topics speaks with Dr. Phillip Zamore about his
highly cited work in gene silencing. Dr. Zamore is
ranked at #9 in our analysis of the topic, with 23
papers cited a total of 3,805 times. In
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM, Dr. Zamore’s record
includes 35 papers cited a total of 4,540 times to date,
the bulk of which are in the field of Molecular Biology
& Genetics. Dr. Zamore is the Gretchen Stone Cook
Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
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An interview with:
Dr. Manel Esteller
March
2007 |
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Dr. Manel Esteller talks
about his highly cited work in gene silencing. His
paper, "A gene hypermethylation profile of human
cancer," (Cancer Res. 61[8]: 3225-9, 15 April
2001) ranks at #15 on our list of the top 20 papers
published on gene silencing in the past decade, with 599
cites to its credit. Dr. Esteller’s record in
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM
includes 145 papers, the bulk of which are classified in
the field of Clinical Medicine, cited a total of 8,416
times to date. Dr. Esteller is the Director of the
Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory at the Spanish National
Cancer Center (CNIO) in Madrid, Spain.
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An interview with:
Dr. Sam Griffiths-Jones
February
2007 |
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Dr.
Sam Griffiths-Jones discusses his paper, "The
microRNA Registry," (Nucleic Acids Research
32: D109-11, 2004). This paper ranks at #9 on our list
of gene silencing papers published in the past two
years, with 170 total citations. In
Essential
Science Indicators ,
Dr. Griffiths-Jones’s record includes 22 papers, the
bulk of which can be found in the field of Biology
& Biochemistry, cited a total of 2,665 times to
date. Formerly affiliated with the Sanger Institute,
Dr. Griffiths-Jones recently took up the mantle of
Fellow in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the
University of Manchester.
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An interview with:
Dr. Utpal Bhadra
January
2007 |
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Special
Topics talks with Dr. Utpal Bhadra about the paper,
"Heterochromatic silencing and the HP1
localization in Drosophila are dependent on the RNAi
machinery," (Pal-bhadra M, et al., Science
303:669-72, 2004). This paper ranks at #11 among
papers on gene silencing published over the past two
years, with 155 cites. Dr. Bhadra heads the Functional
Genomics and Gene Silencing Group at the Center for
Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad,
India.
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