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Result for 'July 2011'

• Embracing superficial imperfections

  1 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  Numerical simulations reveal that deliberately engineering defects into ultrathin oxide films enhances catalytic water-splitting reactions

• Stopping malignancy in its tracks

  1 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  A newly discovered natural product produced by a fungus prevents cancer cells from becoming malignant

• Insights into the story of the eye

  1 July 2011

  Highlight of the Month

  Cultures of embryonic stem cells can be coaxed to spontaneously develop into a mature, properly organized retina

• Pinpointing a tell-tale mark of liver cancer

  8 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  A newly identified gene variant could lead to predictive tests for a major cause of cancer-related deaths

• Unfazed by imperfections

  8 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  The strong coupling between electrical currents and magnetization in topological insulator materials is surprisingly unaffected by impurities

• First X-ray lasing of SACLA

  8 July 2011

  News Roundup

  On June 7, Japan's new X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), the SACLA facility at the SPring-8 synchrotron in Harima, produced its first laser light.

• Hunting the unseen

  15 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  Sighting a theoretical exotic particle may become possible thanks to recently developed mathematical simulations

• Tracking a moving target

  15 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  A family tree of the 2009 pandemic influenza viruses in Japan reveals a high rate of viral evolution

• Lending a helping hand

  15 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  Zinc-transporting protein complexes are found unexpectedly to steer the maturation of an essential enzyme

• Immunity restrained by ion influx

  22 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  A calcium-driven signaling pathway helps prevent immune cells from contributing to autoimmune disease

• Silence of the genes

  22 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  As in other multicellular organisms, plants have evolved mechanisms to maintain genome stability and integrity

• New imaging techniques reveal the workings of supramolecular nanomachines

  22 July 2011

  Frontlines

  Researchers at the SPring-8 Photon Science Research Division are developing a range of imaging tools to reveal the remarkable mechanism of bacterial locomotion

• Yu-xi Liu

  28 July 2011

  RIKEN People

  Yu-xi Liu from Tsinghua University in China writes to Franco Nori, leader of the Digital Materials Team at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako

• A break for bone disease research

  29 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  A variant of a newly identified gene is linked to increased risk of developing osteoporosis in Japanese individuals

• Tuning in to noisy interference

  29 July 2011

  Research Highlights

  Noise reduction in advanced computing circuits comes a step closer thanks to measurements of the noise spectrum affecting superconducting circuits