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RIKEN@riken_enFeb 19
Press Release -- Sculpting complex 3D nanostructures with a focused ion beam → new paths for tiny, energy-efficient electronic components from single crystals. #Nanotechnology #Innovation #FocusedIonBeam doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-0… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…

Nanosculpted 3D helices of a magnetic Weyl semimetal with switchable non-reciprocal electron...

Nature Nanotechnology - Focused ion beam-based nanofabrication enables the production of 3D helical devices from single-crystalline Co3Sn2S2. The resulting chiral geometry-driven symmetry breaking...

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RIKEN@riken_enFeb 20
Press Release -- New research from @RIKEN_IMS @XianYangQIN1 introduces a machine-learned biomarker that can predict the risk of liver cancer. 🧬💡 #CancerResearch #HealthTech #LiverCancerBiomarker doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2521923… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…

Oncogenic function and transcriptional dynamics of MYCN in liver tumorigenesis | PNAS

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. It is often diagnosed at advanced stages and characterized by high r...

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RIKEN@riken_enFeb 24
New RIKEN study uses real-world farm data to reveal how reducing chemical pesticides and fertilizers changes soil microbial diversity and disease outcomes in mandarin orange orchards 🍊#Agriculture #Sustainability #SoilMicrobiome doi.org/10.5511/plantbiotech… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…

A cohort study of sustainable cultivation methods in mandarin orange orchards across Japan

Variability in environmental conditions and farming practices often leads to discrepancies between experimental results and outcomes in farmers’ field …

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RIKEN@riken_enJan 8
Press Release -- New and improved biodegradable plastic made from plant biomass and FDA-approved ingredients. No microplastics. Adjustable flexibility. #SustainableTech #ClimateAction #BiodegradablePlastics doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c16680 riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…
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RIKEN@riken_en27 Nov 2025
Press Release -- Astrocytes, not neurons, are the brain cells responsible for stabilizing memories #Neuroscience #MemoryResearch #AstrocyteMemory @RIKEN_CBS doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-0… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…

The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory

Nature - Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory...

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RIKEN@riken_en3 Dec 2025
Press Release -- RIKEN iTHEMS simulates the Milky Way! So many stars!! #AI #MachineLearning #Cosmology doi.org/10.1145/3712285.3759… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…

The First Star-by-star $N$-body/Hydrodynamics Simulation of Our Galaxy Coupling with a Surrogate...

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RIKEN@riken_en10 Sep 2025
Press Release -- An ancient plant protein in pomelo fruit will help defend plants against tens of thousands of pathogens #PlantImmunity #SyntheticBiology #CropProtection @BrunoNgou @Yasu040 @KenShirasu @ShirasuLab doi.org/10.1126/science.adx2… riken.jp/en/news_pubs/resear…

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase...

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RIKEN@riken_en5 Aug 2025
At the Osaka-Kansai Expo, I encountered a RIKEN robot with a (figurative!) human heart. #Robot #AIrobot #HumanoidRobot #RIKEN itaintmagic.riken.jp/whats-u…
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RIKEN@riken_en11 Jul 2025
Read about what RIKEN R-CCS has been up to! @RIKEN_RCCS #riken #supercomputers @scahpcasia2026 itaintmagic.riken.jp/news/wi…

Winter Hackathon and SupercomputingAsia - It Ain't Magic

Find out what RIKEN R-CCS has been up to!

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RIKEN@riken_en10 Jul 2025
Press release -- RIKEN iTHEMS using AI to predict galaxy evolution over 200 million years #ai #milkyway #galaxy #supercomputer @khirashimaAstro follow link to press release doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…
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RIKEN@riken_en1 Jul 2025
Call for participants! Registration for the 2025 RIKEN International HPC Online Summer School is now open! Graduate students or early-career researchers interest may apply. Deadline: July 16, 5:00 PM JST Details: x.gd/QL2dS x.gd/0YMjm
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New study @RIKEN_BDR shows when and why chromosomal errors occur in early developing #embryos #developmentalBiology #miscarriage #downsyndrome doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-0… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…

Embryonic genome instability upon DNA replication timing program emergence

Nature - A single-cell genome-wide DNA replication atlas of pre-implantation mouse embryos reveals an abrupt replication program switch accompanied by a transient period of genomic instability.

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The brain maps where we're going so we don't have to think about it @RIKEN_CBS #brainscience #neuroscience #navigation #scicomm #scix #science doi.org/10.1126/science.ado4… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…

Predictive grid coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

The entorhinal cortex represents allocentric spatial geometry and egocentric speed and heading information required for spatial navigation. However, it remains unclear whether it contributes to the...

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RIKEN@riken_en20 Aug 2024
Researching rare diseases is difficult! #nglydefeciency #riken #scix #scicomm #rarediseases doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0… tinyurl.com/2av4oayk
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Dopamine for treating Alzheimer's disease @RIKEN_CBS #AlzheimersDisease #BrainScience #scicomm #scix #riken doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.ad… tinyurl.com/27ey5yw8

The dopaminergic system promotes neprilysin-mediated degradation of amyloid-β in the brain

Levodopa stimulates an enzyme in the brain to break down amyloid-β and restore cognition in mice.

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Scientists from @RIKEN_IMS and @KyotoU_News have discovered rare T cells. Genetic variation in these cells was associated with immune diseases #Immunology #Science #Genetics #Lifescience #health doi.org/10.1126/science.add8… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…

An atlas of transcribed enhancers across helper T cell diversity for decoding human diseases

Transcribed enhancer maps can reveal nuclear interactions underpinning each cell type and connect specific cell types to diseases. Using a 5′ single-cell RNA sequencing approach, we defined transcr...

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Tired of fertilizers that harm the environment? Now there's a biomass fertilizer that's just as good @RIKEN_CSRS #science #Biotechnology #EnvironmentalScience #Microbiology doi.org/10.1038/s44264-024-0… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…
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RIKEN@riken_en27 Jun 2024
researchers at @RIKEN_IMS have mapped out changes in the lipidome as mice age #AgingScience #health #medicine #microbiome #scix doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-0… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…
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Have you ever wondered how scientifically sound the science in sci-fi actually is? Dr. Kipp Cannon gave a fun talk @SpaceCafeTokyo this past April. June's Space Cafe Tokyo will be on the 20th. itaintmagic.riken.jp/whats-u…

Space Café Tokyo explains sus sci-fi media - It Ain't Magic

Our very own Kelly writes about how much fun she had at Space Café Tokyo. Softcore science and beer.

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What can we do to help crops survive in contaminated soil? ask @RIKEN_CSRS #plantscience #soil #cesium #scix #scicomm doi.org/10.1007/s00425-023-0… itaintmagic.riken.jp/hot-off…

Arabidopsis transcriptomic analysis reveals cesium inhibition of root growth involves abscisic acid...

Planta - This is the first report on the involvement of abscisic acid signaling in regulating post-germination growth under Cs stress, not related to potassium deficiency. Cesium (Cs) is known to...

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