The brain’s GPS has a buddy system
Leaky plants bad for drought resistance
Helping the body clock keep its cool
The stars align
What’s that smell? The advantage of sniffing
Quantum dots light up cancer with a little help
Most precise measurement ever of proton magnetic moment
Proton and antiproton still seem identical
Microcolumns: elementary neuronal units that carpet the (mouse) brain
Jupiter’s volcano-powered auroral lights
Hepatoma (liver cancer) blocked by a sugar look-a-like
Random movements help color-detecting cells form the proper pattern
Visualizing chick-brain morphogenesis
Skin-like wearable electronics
Solar cells you can put in the wash
Learning and unlearning to fear: The two faces of noradrenaline
ּּּBigger oocytes = more mistakes
Superfly flight simulator helps unravel navigation in the brain
Skipping fatty acids could be recipe for schizophrenia
A gut-wrenching defense against parasitic worms
Memory retrieval needs a neuronal connecting flight
From egg to embryo
This nickel catalyst bats from both sides of the plate
New info about how chromosomes form
Tracking how stars grow up in a virtual playground
Protons are lighter than previously thought
Untangling depression in Huntington’s disease
Imaging whole-body cancer metastasis at the single-cell level
Meet the editors: the growing pains of scientific publishing
Carbon nanotubes, what are they good for?
Finding real rewards in a virtual world
RIKEN is looking for you
Promising mouse model for Ngly1 deficiency
Nihonium walk of fame
New rice fights off drought
Centennial RIKEN Research
Don’t know anything about RIKEN?
Blocking obesity with a protein-sugar combination
Robotic researcher to the rescue
Telework: a societal game-changer
Decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
Confronting a string of epidemics including COVID-19
Next stop: clinical hair regeneration
Godzilla-sized zooplankton for better aquafarming
Electric rays to help us map the ocean floor
Bacterial drug resistance studied by robotic E. coli evolution
New artificial skin helps avoid animal testing
Social novelty in the brain: haven’t I seen you someplace before?
Sep
10

A faster and more sensitive antibody test for COVID-19
Fast and sensitive: A new antibody test for the COVID-19 virus. Just a pinprick of blood and results in 30 minutes. Continue!
Jul
26

Opossums are the first genome edited marsupials
A new piezoelectronic microinjection method has allowed the first successful genome editing in marsupials: albino opossums. Continue!
Jul
19

Methylation mutation directly linked to autism
A mutation in a gene needed for H3K9 methylation is directly linked to autism spectrum disorders and early neurodevelopment. Continue!
Jun
25

Melatonin in mice, circadian rhythms, and daily torpor
A new breed of lab mouse allows the study of naturally occurring melatonin. These mice will adjust better to jetlag than regular lab mice and experience daily torpor. Continue!
Jun
2

Why (mouse) mothers take risks to protect their infants
The calcitonin receptor and its ligand amylin act in the brain to motivate mouse mothers to protect their pups, even in risky/dangerous situations. Continue!
May
26

Dietary amino acid linked to cancer in flies
Researchers have found a dietary amino acid linked to oncogene expression / tumor formation; reduced consumption reduced cancer in flies. Continue!