The groundbreaking and increasingly sophisticated analyses conducted by Wasser and colleagues have advanced efforts to identify the origins of smuggled ivory using nuclear DNA markers (Wasser et al. 2004, 2007, 2008).
These analyses build on groundbreaking work by the World Health Organization (WHO) to estimate the global- and country-specific burden of disease that can be attributed to environmental factors.
Ferns, with their large genomes, high chromosome numbers, independent gametophyte phase, and mix of heterosporous and homosporous taxa, offer unparalleled opportunities for groundbreaking comparative genetic and genomic analyses across land plants as a whole.
The discovery came from the groundbreaking work of King's College London academics who analysed the social media habits of 190 western jihadists fighting in Syria against president Bashar al-Assad.
The recently amended Portuguese Local Finances Law (LFL) of 2007, with its groundbreaking new article on the promotion of local sustainability, is analysed in terms of the significance of fiscal transfers for municipal budgets.
With its multidisciplinary skill sets and cutting-edge technology, the CCGD allows scientists to perform analyses they would otherwise be unable to do—resulting in 103 groundbreaking publications since 2008.
Moreover, he says the report is "groundbreaking [because] it established methodologies for conducting literature reviews and meta-analyses for observational epidemiologic data".
It was not until William Stokoe's groundbreaking study of ASL, published in 1960, that any sign language had been analysed as a fully fledged communication system with a grammar of its own.
The groundbreaking work of the 1960s effectively demonstrated our close affinity with the African great apes, and today's genomic analyses comparing humans and chimpanzees are beginning to reveal differences in much finer detail than heretofore possible.
