 Joslin’s C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., on Recent Insulin Insights
For the better part of a century, since its discovery in a Toronto laboratory in 1921, insulin was known in the medical research community as little more than the hormone that was lacking in
diabetes. But the roles of insulin are many and diverse, and researchers are still trying to make sense of it all. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat and carbohydrate metabolism, and controls the storage of these nutrients as well. It stimulates the synthesis of molecules involved in the function and growth of cells, and of protein and even RNA and DNA molecules in our cells.
C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., of the Joslin Diabetes Center, observes that his research points to “one unifying hypothesis in which insulin resistance in different tissues can contribute different parts of the metabolic syndrome of diabetes.” The last decade has seen a revolution in the understanding of insulin and the condition known as insulin resistance; as is usually the case, this revolution has been driven by technological innovations. No one has contributed more to these breakthroughs than the Boston diabetologist C. Ronald Kahn, M.D. Among the highly cited reports by Kahn and his colleagues in the last two and a half decades are two papers with more than 1,000 citations each, and an even 10 that have
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Who's Best with the Beasts
Science Watch
now turns its attention to research in veterinary medicine and
animal health over the last decade. To survey this field, Science
Watch extracted more than 140,000 papers
published between 1994 and 2004 in upwards of 150 Thomson
Scientific-indexed journals categorized under the headings of
"veterinary sciences," "veterinary
medicine," and "animal health." From this
selection of literature, Science Watch identified, in table
#1 below,
the top institutions as measured by both total citations and
by impact (citations per paper). Table #2
(below) features the most-cited individual authors, along with
the most-cited journals dedicated to veterinary research...
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