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Tokyo, 6 Dec - Researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institution, have successfully devised the world’s first experimental technique for measuring ground-state hyperfine transitions of antihydrogen.

Tokyo, 6 December - Researchers in Japan have launched FANTOM5, Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome, an international effort to globally map transcription initiation in every human cell type.

US, European and Japanese companies join A*STAR’s Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON) to engineer marine life-inspired anti-microbial surfaces for use on ships, lenses and even medical devices.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Neuroscience: Linking deafness and cardiac arrhythmia; Geoscience: Deep burn; Neuroscience: Sizing up visual perception; Genetics: Variants associated with kidney cancer and Photonics: Taking off using light

‘Green’ catalysts transform carbon dioxide gas into valuable building blocks for organic synthesis

RIKEN biochemists decipher how the precisely choreographed activity of a pair of enzymes helps protein synthesis move forward

Advances in our understanding of basic biological processes and human disease owe much to the groundbreaking research of scientists at the Chromosome Dynamics Laboratory at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute.

Genetics: LMO1’s dual role in neuroblastoma; Comment: When small got big; Neuroscience: Simple sex-specific circuits; Ecology: Biodiversity and infectious disease; Physics: ‘Stripes’ and the pseudogap in a high-temperature superconductor and Atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet

19 new plant species described in Sarawak by researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)

The STAM article titled “Challenges and Breakthroughs in Recent Research on Self-Assembly,” which was published in March 2008 issue by Dr. Ariga, MANA PI, and Dr. Hill, MANA Scientist, et al., was ranked No. 1 Hot Paper in Materials Science by the Essential Science Indicators on November 1 (provided by Thomson Reuters).

A specific genre of documentation was produced by student of UiTM, Malaysia.

Summaries of newsworthy papers:A boost for Alzheimer’s disease; Why diamond can be polished; Targeting AID for immunoglobulin genes; Risk variant for hypospadias and How to reverse age-related tissue degeneration

Large tree-like sugar clusters provide potential in vivo probes for cancer cells

Frame-by-frame observations of the ionization of argon atoms under extremely bright and energetic illumination could prove a boon to research

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Cosmology: Measuring dark energy with geometry; Astronomy: Pinning down Cepheid variable-star masses; Physics: Bose–Einstein condensation of light; Physics: Cooperative atomic motions caught in the act and Sweetness and blight

New agricultural techniques have helped settle conflicts over land use in Arsaal, Lebanon. In doing so, they’ve improved soils and increased fruit crops.

The remarkable transition in land use practices and resource management flows from the work of NEPED funded by the government of Nagaland, IDRC, and the Canadian International Development Agency from 1994 to 2006.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) today announced the establishment of a Joint Laboratory in Precision Engineering for Space Applications.

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) academics and students won 2 Special Awards, 5 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medals.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and NAture Research Journals including Medicine: Identity theft, Structural & Molecular Biology: Switching BRCA1, Genetics: Variants associated with age at menarche, Genetics: Variants associated with Crohn’s disease and Nature: From brain cancer to blood vessel

A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) partners 10 EU research organisations to work on the groundbreaking €10 million ATMOL project that lays the foundation for creating and testing a molecular-sized processor chip.

Bulky molecules help trap boron compounds into a never-before-seen structural arrangement

Evolution has left a protein and nucleic acid molecule with remarkably similar structures, allowing them to undergo modification by closely related enzymes

A new molecular simulation technique developed by researchers at RIKEN and Kyoto University has confirmed for the first time the function of the transporter protein AcrB in E. coli multidrug resistance.

Physics: Antihydrogen in captivity; Opinion: Time to stop economic growth; Opinion: The end of cheap coal is nigh; Neuroscience: Retrotransposons make their mark; Materials science: Porous silica films with a twist; Physics: A four-fold quantum network; Coming in from the cold

An anti-cancer research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKUSZ) has led to the first total synthesis of an anti-cancer marine natural product, grassypeptolide.

Team from Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) emerges first in Known-item-Search (KIS) task at National Institute and Standards Technology TRECVID Conference 2010

Tokyo, 15 Nov - New findings by researchers at RIKEN and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have shed light on the remarkable electrochemical response properties of an elusive class of molecular helix structures, charting a new path in the design of molecular machines and devices.

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Spontaneous repair; Mental retardation linked to new mutations; Futile anti-HIV responses; Measuring cell traction in 3D and Sub-seafloor carbon release off California

KUALA LUMPUR, 9 Nov – Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) Austria collaborate in the field of research focusing on natural resources and life sciences.