 Burnham's John C. Reed: Apropos of Apoptosis
While some biologists
have gained renown by studying the lives of the cell, John C. Reed
has made his mark by studying cellular death, an aspect of biology
that went largely overlooked for decades. Scientists had long
observed that severely injured cells seemed to swell and explode,
littering their toxic contents over neighboring cells in a
traumatic process called necrosis. Otherwise, cell death was
practically taken for granted–as if the cell simply ran out of
gas.
But once technology made it
possible to observe living cells under light microscopy, a handful
of scientists determined that non-traumatic cell death was both
more methodical and more significant than was previously realized.
Our current understanding is usually traced to a ground-breaking
paper published...
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Analyze This:
High-Impact Research in Psychiatry
 or the period 1990 to 1998,
Science Watch identified the 200 most-cited papers of each year published in ISI-indexed journals of psychiatry, with citations tallied through June of 1999. Papers published in the multidisciplinary journals
Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA were also considered–although it should be mentioned that psychiatry papers appearing in general medical journals, such as
The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, were not included in this analysis...
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