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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Revealing the mechanism behind the constant motion of organisms from the structure of filamentous actin (19 March 2010)
Ten years of painstaking research has reaped rewards with valuable insights into the mechanism of cellular motion
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Creating the ultimate nuclear theory to help solve resource and energy problems (12 March 2010)
Through close collaboration between theoreticians and experimentalists, RIKEN’s Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory is poised to deliver breakthroughs in our understanding of the origin of matter and nuclear theory
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Discovery of a plant hormone that affects other organisms (12 February 2010)
Studies on mutant plants provide insights into the role of strigolactone, a plant hormone that inhibits shoot branching and attracts both beneficial symbionts and damaging root parasites
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A new approach to diagnosing the dynamic behavior of DNA and RNA (29 January 2010)
Molecular fluorescence applied in an unconventional way allows the life-sustaining chemical reactions in genes to be observed in real time
