Master Cell Controller

For this article, Eugene Russo interviewed Yosef Shiloh, a professor of human genetics at Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine, and Michael Kastan, chairman, department of hematology-oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Data from the Web of Science (ISI, Philadelphia) show that Hot Papers are cited 50 to 100 times more often than the average paper of the same type and age. S. Banin, L. Moyal, S.Y. Shieh, Y. Taya, C.W. Anderson, L. Chessa, N.I. Smorodin

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For this article, Eugene Russo interviewed Yosef Shiloh, a professor of human genetics at Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine, and Michael Kastan, chairman, department of hematology-oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Data from the Web of Science (ISI, Philadelphia) show that Hot Papers are cited 50 to 100 times more often than the average paper of the same type and age. S. Banin, L. Moyal, S.Y. Shieh, Y. Taya, C.W. Anderson, L. Chessa, N.I. Smorodinsky, C. Prives, Y. Reiss, Y. Shiloh, Y. Ziv, "Enhanced phosphorylation of p53 by ATM in response to DNA damage," Science, 281:1674-7, Sept. 11, 1998. (Cited in more than 210 papers since publication) C.E. Canman, D.S. Lim, K.A. Cimprich, Y. Taya, K. Tamai, K. Sakaguchi, E. Appella, M.B. Kastan, J.D. Siliciano, "Activation of the ATM kinase by ionizing radiation and phosphorylation of p53," Science, 281:1677-9, Sept. 11, 1998. (Cited in ...

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