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Plant peptide spells relief from salty stress
Putting E. coli to work for us
Why being sick can create anxiety
Plant hormone combats dehydration
Heat shock system helps dried up bug come back to life
In living color: imaging the brain with synthetic bioluminescence
Deep-brain exploration with nanomaterials
Running away from carbon dioxide: the terminal connection
Rainbow engineering to make the brain glow
Geostationary satellite enables better precipitation and flood predictions
Clean and green: a moss that removes lead (Pb) from water
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
ERRg predicts atrial fibrillation and hidden comorbidity
Memories are made of this ?? – (Part 2)
Replicating opossum heart regeneration to help fight cardiovascular disease
Spacey, nerdy nights in Tokyo
Memories are made of this ? ? – (Part 1)
Hibernation-like state can protect kidneys during heart surgery
Crying baby? Science says walk, then sit
Cyborg cockroaches to the rescue!
Ethanol pretreated soil protects plants from drought
Aug
23
![Scary places burned into our minds by constant memory replay](https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/wp-content/uploads/RRFY202310.jpg)
Scary places burned into our minds by constant memory replay
Researchers discover the mechanism through which places associated with negative experiences are burned into our memories. Continue!
Aug
18
![Toward human hibernation: cold-resistant mouse stem cells](https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/wp-content/uploads/blog-top-5.png)
Toward human hibernation: cold-resistant mouse stem cells
Cold-resistant stem cells from “deep torpor” mice are a big step toward understanding why tissue survives hibernation. Continue!
Aug
15
![A researcher’s journey part 2: emotional memory and being human](https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/wp-content/uploads/blog-top.jpg)
A researcher’s journey part 2: emotional memory and being human
Joshua Johansen from RIKEN CBS explains emotional memory, what his lab is doing, and what makes a good researcher. Continue!
Aug
8
![Mathematical model predicts self-organized learning in real neurons](https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/wp-content/uploads/blog2-805x675.png)
Mathematical model predicts self-organized learning in real neurons
The free energy principle predicted how real neural connections changed as neurons “learned” in a dish. Continue!
Aug
7
![Deadly fungi beaten with fatty acid synthase inhibitor](https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/wp-content/uploads/blogtop-4.png)
Deadly fungi beaten with fatty acid synthase inhibitor
A new approach to attacking fungi involves inhibiting a gene needed for making fatty acids. Continue!
Jul
12
![A new and improved way to store hydrogen](https://itaintmagic.riken.jp/wp-content/uploads/PbOHI-blog-1080x675.png)
A new and improved way to store hydrogen
A simple chemical reaction allows hydrogen-carrying ammonia to be stored and retrieved cheaply and easily. Continue!