It’s almost the end of the year and a here’s an early holiday present! The winter issue of RIKEN Research is here, covering plant parasites, depression, atomic clocks, and more! Enjoy!

Blue light alters some gene expression in plants by changing the transcription start sites to downstream locations.

The newly named gore-tex gene is responsible for the development of nanopores that allow chemicals in the air to be detected (in flies).

A new imaging technique called opto-OISI allows scientists to non-invasively visualize where specific neurons project in the living brain.

For the first time, scientists have measured the strength of magnetic fields near supermassive black holes and something doesn’t add up.