Everything about Arms

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ArmsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistance—A Short Story of an Endless Arms RaceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Night ManagerThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Analysis of any point mutation in DNA. The amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS)Cited 1,926 times
5. Go sideways: We (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ClimaxA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Analysis of any point mutation in DNA. The amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS)

  C.R. Newton, A. Graham, L.E. Heptinstall · 1989 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,926 citations

• Arms races between and within species

  Richard Dawkins, John Richard Krebs · 1979 · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences · 1,459 citations

• The Piwi-piRNA Pathway Provides an Adaptive Defense in the Transposon Arms Race

  Alexei A. Aravin, Gregory J. Hannon, Julius Brennecke · 2007 · Science · 1,014 citations

• The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes

  Hannah G. Hampton, Bridget N. J. Watson, Peter C. Fineran · 2020 · Nature · 998 citations

• Innate Immunity in Plants: An Arms Race Between Pattern Recognition Receptors in Plants and Effectors in Microbial Pathogens

  Thomas Boller, Sheng Yang He · 2009 · Science · 962 citations

• Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Real-time Myoelectric Control of Multifunction Artificial Arms

  Todd A. Kuiken · 2009 · JAMA · 960 citations

• A nucleator arms race: cellular control of actin assembly

  Kenneth G. Campellone, Matthew D. Welch · 2010 · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 929 citations

• A Two Micron All Sky Survey View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. I. Morphology of the Sagittarius Core and Tidal Arms

  Steven R. Majewski, M. F. Skrutskie, Martin D. Weinberg · 2003 · The Astrophysical Journal · 917 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistance—A Short Story of an Endless Arms Race

  Aleksandra Baran, Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, Leszek Potocki · 2023 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 307 citations

• Strongly Coupled Interfacial Engineering Inspired by Robotic Arms Enable High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Capacitors

  Zirui Song, Guiyu Zhang, Xinglan Deng · 2022 · Advanced Functional Materials · 203 citations

• Robotic arms in precision agriculture: A comprehensive review of the technologies, applications, challenges, and future prospects

  Tantan Jin, Xiongzhe Han · 2024 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · 160 citations

• Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

  Julia W. Haas, Friederike L. Bender, Sarah Ballou · 2022 · JAMA Network Open · 150 citations

• Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms

  Joshua Kaufmann, Priyanka Bhovad, Suyi Li · 2022 · Soft Robotics · 147 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Night ManagerJohn le Carré · 1993
• Cuba LibreElmore Leonard · 1998
• Design of reinforced concreteJack C. McCormac · 1978
• Rum PunchElmore Leonard · 1992
• Conduct UnbecomingRandy Shilts · 1993
• Valdez Is ComingElmore Leonard · 1969
• Military smallarms of the twentieth century [by] Ian Hogg and John WeeksIan V. Hogg, John Weeks · 1973
• The Positronic ManIsaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1992

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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