Frontlines
Each month, RIKEN RESEARCH presents an in-depth interview with a top RIKEN scientist involved in ground-breaking international research. As one of the world’s premier research organizations, RIKEN has established a unique research environment that attracts many of the most recognized researchers from Japan and the international scientific community. RIKEN’s active promotion of cutting-edge, future-oriented research in fields as diverse as medicine, earth science, molecular biology, laser physics and chemistry has nurtured many world-renowned researchers, many of whom now lead their own laboratories in curiosity-driven research. RIKEN Frontlines provides an insight into the motivations and scientific achievements of these distinguished researchers.
Recent Frontlines Articles
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New technique lights up the creation of holograms (16 March 2012)
Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute have developed a unique way to create full-color holograms with the aid of surface plasmons
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Advancing personalized medicine:
tailoring drugs to fit a patient’s genetic predisposition (24 February 2012)The RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine is examining how drugs can be matched to a patient’s genetic information through the study of single nucleotide polymorphisms
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Developing the world’s highest output in deep-UV light-emitting diode technology (20 January 2012)
The RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has made significant advances in deep-UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) technology for a broad range of new applications, including sterilization and decomposition of environmental pollutants
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Exploring the mechanism behind the differentiation of immune cells (16 December 2011)
Ichiro Taniuchi at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology is carrying out research to understand the mysteries of organism evolution by investigating the mechanism responsible for the differentiation of T cells
