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18 Sep 2009
Peiyan Wong Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
21 Aug 2009
An International Phenome Integration Meeting, sponsored by RIKEN and co-sponsored by the Society for the Study of Mammalian Genetics, was held in Kyoto, Japan, on July 12–13 of this year.
06 Jul 2009
The situation encompassing Japanese returning from China has changed greatly in the last 20 years. In the past, returning to Japan meant giving up the entire lifestyle built during many years of living in China.
21 Jun 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers include Farming pollutants, Vaccines: Jogging your memory and Long-term ties between Antarctic temperature and sea level
05 Jun 2009
RIKEN has developed a common infrastructure called RIKEN SciNeS (Science Networking System) to execute large-scale releases of data in a format conforming to the international Semantic Web standard.
02 Jun 2009
By the spring of 2010, two new large insurance groups will be established through management integration: one comprises Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings, Aioi Insurance, and Nissay Dowa General Insurance; the other comprises Sompo Japan Insurance and Nippon Koa Insurance.
29 May 2009
If all dendritic projections and axons in the whole brain were joined together in a line, they would extend for 100,000 kilometers. This article describes RIKEN's work on elucidating the huge complexity of the brain’s neural network.
26 Feb 2009
OTTAWA, Feb. 25 - The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canada Research Chairs Program are pleased to announce eight research partnerships between outstanding university scholars in Canada and their peers in the developing world.
28 Nov 2008
PolyU is working closely with the Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which will be carried onboard a Russian spacecraft for the Red Planet in the 2009 Sino-Russian Space Mission.
10 Oct 2008
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology is an internationally recognized research institute. They are seeking Team Leaders (approximately 2) who meet the requirements.
26 Sep 2008
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology is an internationally recognized research institute working to elucidate the principles of animal development and regeneration, as well as develop innovative cell manipulation techniques. They are currently seeking 2 Team Leaders.
26 Sep 2008
The conference has been a forum for plant metabolomics researchers from all over the world to meet every one to two years since 2002. It was held in Asia for the first time this year.
12 Jun 2008
The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) has initiated an 18-month research consortium valued at SGD1.5 million to leverage upon a centralised source of expertise in the area of wireless communication, high speed electronic design, and analysis of electromagnetic compatibility and interference.
21 Apr 2008
Keio University will be the first in Japan to provide national household panel data to the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), which will enable researchers around the world to use the data in international comparisons of income and poverty.
12 Dec 2007
Recommend roadmap based on flexible, universally compatible technologies for good governance and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
18 Jun 2007
Today Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and partner organisations launch Nature Precedings http://precedings.nature.com, a free online service enabling researchers to rapidly share, discuss and cite early findings.
18 Jun 2007
The recommendations from the International Roundtable on Lightning Protection include designing protective devices suitable to local conditions, more research in high frequency earthing systems and protection technologies, country wide networked lighting detection system and an International Institute for Lighting Protection and Safety.
23 Mar 2007
Scientists at Keio University report a first-of-a-kind quantitative picture of molecular components of the common intestinal bacterium E. coli. The group studied this unicellular organism at an unprecedented depth to reveal the remarkable overall robustness of its metabolic network to gene deletion and changes in growth conditions.
03 Oct 2006
Potential novel targets for anti-cancer therapy are revealed in a paper to be published online this week in Molecular Systems Biology. Forest White and colleagues investigated the EGFR/HER2 signaling pathway, which is perturbed in human breast cancer.
22 May 2006
The “Solid Waste-to-Fuel Gases Conversion System” converts basically any solid and plastic wastes to synthetic gasoline and diesel (the so-called “syn” gas) which can be used for energy and heating.
21 Apr 2006
The goal of the meeting was to address migratory bird populations and environmental aspects in the current Asian lineage Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus subtype H5N1 epidemic. Sound scientific information, including an understanding of the environment and migratory bird populations, is a necessity for understanding the epidemic
15 Feb 2006
Now you see it, now you don't; Monkey brains weigh up good and bad; Continental-scale river flow increases as plants sweat less; Near-Sun origin of iron meteorites; Bottom's up to gene control; Inbreeding prophylactic exposed; Ionic liquids are a gas; Uncoiling snake evolution; Invading cane toads make long-legged leap into new territory