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This article focuses on abstracts of papers presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the American Society of Dermatopathology at Intercontinental Hotel, New Orleans between February 1-3, 1995. The Kveim-Siltzbach Reactions (KSR) is an important model for investigating immunologic events in granuloma formation. It has been shown that T lymphocyte predominance with oligocionality of infiltrating cells in 4 week-old KSR. Verruciform xanthoma is a rare benign condition that commonly involves the oral mucosa. Cutaneous lesions are less often observed, predominantly occurring at anogenital sites. Despite anecdotal reports of its occurrence in a variety of disease states, the etiology of this condition remains unclear.

The article presents data related to biotechnology research papers in the U.S. The US remains the most productive country in terms of biotech-related papers. But numbers of papers from the European Union surpassed the US last year (with Germany and the UK ahead of most EU countries); elsewhere, Korea, China and Japan also publish frequently. Some of the top cited papers, published in different journals, by field are: RNAi--Systematic functional analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using RNAi; Gene therapy--LMO2-associated clonal T cell proliferation in two patients after gene therapy for SCID-X2 and Nuclear transfer--Derivation of oocytes from mouse embryonic stem cells.