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Telework: a societal game-changer

by jens wilkinson | Mar 26, 2021 | Interviews

COVID-19 series — installment #3: Team Leader Osamu Sakura (@RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project) talks about how the pandemic has affected society through the need for telework.

Decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic

by jens wilkinson | Mar 18, 2021 | Interviews

COVID-19 series — installment #2: RIKEN CBS Unit Leader Rei Akaishi talks about government decision-making during the pandemic.

Confronting a string of epidemics including COVID-19

by jens wilkinson | Mar 5, 2021 | Interviews

COVID-19 series — installment #1: RIKEN Executive Director Shigeo Koyasu talks about epidemics and what a good response looks like.

Next stop: clinical hair regeneration

by adam phillips | Feb 19, 2021 | Featured, Hot Off the Press

A new recipe for continuous cyclical hair regeneration in mice. This means that the hair will continue to fall out and regrow like normal hair.

Godzilla-sized zooplankton for better aquafarming

by masataka sasabe | Jan 22, 2021 | Hot Off the Press

Scientists have created extra large zooplankton to help feed the fish in aquafarms. The new plankton were created using an ion beam to generate mutations.

Electric rays to help us map the ocean floor

by adam phillips | Dec 10, 2020 | Hot Off the Press

Electric rays and sting rays could map the ocean floor through their natural behavior, helping us find resources and collect data on other ocean life.

Bacterial drug resistance studied by robotic E. coli evolution

by masataka sasabe | Nov 26, 2020 | Hot Off the Press

Experimentally evolving E. coli under pressure from a large number of antibiotics was able to identify constraints underlying evolved drug resistance.

New artificial skin helps avoid animal testing

by masataka sasabe | Nov 9, 2020 | Hot Off the Press

A new artificial skin that reproduces proper tension can be used to research skin function and disease while reducing the need to experiment on animals.

Social novelty in the brain: haven’t I seen you someplace before?

by adam phillips | Oct 2, 2020 | Hot Off the Press

Social novelty and contextual novelty are segregated in the SuM region of the hypothalamus and in projections to the hippocampus, allowing memories of meeting new people to be formed separately from memories of new places.