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Sep

25

Skin-like wearable electronics

by RIKEN research highlights | Research Highlight

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Sensors made from stretchable nanomesh allow skin to breathe naturally while continuously monitoring patient health.

Sep

22

Solar cells you can put in the wash

by jens wilkinson | Hot Off the Press

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Scientists have developed ultra-thin photovoltaic solar cells that can be incorporated into fabric and even washed.

Sep

20

Learning and unlearning to fear: The two faces of noradrenaline

by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press

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Fear association and unlearning fear association require different populations of noradrenaline neurons in the locus coeruleus.

Sep

14

ּּּBigger oocytes = more mistakes

by riken research highlights | Research Highlight

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The large size of mouse oocytes is shown to create errors when chromosomes divide between daughter cells.

Sep

7

Superfly flight simulator helps unravel navigation in the brain

by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press

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Optical imaging neural activity in flies as they use a flight simulator can help us understand how the brain codes navigation.

Sep

5

Skipping fatty acids could be recipe for schizophrenia

by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press

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Prenatal lack of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids linked to epigenetic changes that lead to schizophrenic symptoms in mice.

Aug

21

A gut-wrenching defense against parasitic worms

by riken research highlights | Research Highlight

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Mast cells in the gut help fight off parasitic worms in the early stages of infection.

Aug

18

Memory retrieval needs a neuronal connecting flight

by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press

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Scientists use optogenetics to discover a part of the brain necessary for retrieving memories of personal experiences.

Aug

10

From egg to embryo

by riken research highlights | Research Highlight

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A newly discovered gene turns off an egg’s egginess, allowing it to become an embryo.

Aug

3

This nickel catalyst bats from both sides of the plate

by riken research highlights | Research Highlight

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Scientists discover that a nickel catalyst acts as both a acid and a base during molecule assembly.

Jul

27

New info about how chromosomes form

by riken research highlights | Research Highlight

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Fewer components are needed for chromosome assembly during cell division than previously supposed.

Jul

25

Tracking how stars grow up in a virtual playground

by amanda alvarez | Research Highlight

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Amanda Alvarez writes about Steven Rieder and his research in modeling clusters of growing new stars.

Jul

21

Protons are lighter than previously thought

by jens wilkinson | Hot Off the Press

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A new and most precise measurement of protons shows that they are lighter than previously thought.

Jul

20

Untangling depression in Huntington’s disease

by riken research highlights | Research Highlight

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New research implicates clumps of insoluble, misfolded proteins in the development of mental illness in people with Huntington’s disease

Jul

6

Imaging whole-body cancer metastasis at the single-cell level

by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press

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A new optical clearing method allows imaging of cancer metastasis at incredibly high resolution.

Jun

2

Meet the editors: the growing pains of scientific publishing

by amanda alvarez | What's Up With Us

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Amanda Alvarez writes about the recent seminars at RIKEN by Philip Campbell and Emilie Marcus, the editors-in-chief of Nature and Cell.

May

17

Carbon nanotubes, what are they good for?

by kylius wilkins | Interviews, What's Up With Us

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Kylius Wilkins talks to Urs Frey and his recent success manufacturing carbon nanotubes (CNTs).

May

8

Finding real rewards in a virtual world

by adam phillips | Hot Off the Press

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A new study shows that mice who learn to find goals in virtual reality use their hippocampus the same was as in the real world.