KyotoU Research News

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101 years of Ashiu

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Icarus can fly high and save on wax to
Quantum physics helps destroy cancer cells
11 Space: the wooden frontier

Setting Covid-19 drug trials up for success
Bringing order to hydrogen energy devices

Life is but a dream

Society is not ready to make human brains

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Science with industry & society : Running LAPs together for citizen science

Global endeavors
Strategic partnerships fostering mutual trust for effective international collaboration
Kyoto ASEAN Virtual Fields drones, VR images, & aerial photographs using ICT
Onsite lab: start-up and venture promotion from KURC-SD

Backstage at the lab
Crossroads of the world and the mind

KyotoU moving forward

In Covid’s wake

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A special elemental magic
How do birds understand ‘foreign’ calls?

From bacteria to you: the biological reactions that sustain our rhythms

Two for the price of one
Flaring, massively

Two for the price of one
Order from chaos

Changing ties that naturally bind

Reducing the high social cost of death
Detect with PKAch

Terahertz zaps alter gene activity in stem cells

How does the spider spin its self-assembled silk?

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Science with industry: The forest and the trees: science supporting ASEAN

New strategic partnerships established

News from overseas centers

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Into the human unknown

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Bridging the scales of the brain
An overactive cerebellum causes issues across the brain

Why fruit flies eat practically anything

Lend me a flipper
Using a chip to find better cancer fighting drugs

The little auks that lived in the Pacific

Reconstructing the clock of human development

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Science with industry: KyotoU venture bringing light to patients’ eyes

News from overseas centers

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An Asian Humanities, for the future

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A petrifying virus key to evolution
Let there be light-activated genes

Infer tility’s roots in DNA packaging

Prince Charming’s kiss unlocking brain’s regenerative potential?
Chimps caught crabbing

A study in scarlet Japanese macaques

Testing corneal cell quality? Apply physics
The worms that roared

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So tell us...

News from overseas centers

On-Site Laboratory network established

Nobel Prize 2018
Congratulations, Honjo-sensei!

Defining ‘Kyotoness’ in the research environment

Driven by curiosity

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New gears in your sleep clock
What does the koala genome tell us about the taste of eucalyptus?

Meet ERICA. She wants to listen to you

Giant, recently extinct seabird also inhabited Japan
Japanese in Canada, with mixed feelings

Finding success through failure
Using microcredit to increase rice yield in Bangladesh

Making an eye for you

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Science with industry: Microbes are us. But how can we see them?

News from overseas centers

Backstage at the lab
The high-tech astronomy of Seimei

Personnel profiles
Understanding the machines, Kyoto style

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High achievement not always based on high student initiative
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?

Visualizing danger from songbird warning calls

What a handsome schnoz!
Electro-mechano-optical NMR detection

Twisting graphene into spirals

Studying the human impact on sea urchin abundance
Capturing the rare Yanbaru whiskered bat

Using geometry and qubits to build real universes

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KURNe: research news in motion

News from overseas centers

Science with industry: Mining answers from the data mountain

So tell us... what do you do and how did you get to Japan?

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Humanities 101 : A Kyoto approach to history, society, and the study of humanity

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Special delivery : macromolecules via spider’s ‘bite’
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia

Black hole pair born inside a dying star?
How am I feeling? Ask my house

Lightning, with a chance of antimatter

Winds blowing off a dying star
The secret lives of ancient land plants

What grosses out a chimpanzee?

Cells rockin’ in their DNA

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Earth, sky, space, and everything in between

Personnel Profiles
ARN:student perspectives

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Energizing immune cells to combat cancer
Visualizing nuclear radiation
Choosing a simpler path to drug discovery
Charting the skies of history
Born to love superheroes
High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet
You don’t see what I see?
Disentangling chloroplast genetics
Untangling the knots in cell stress
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Nicking in new nucleotides

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Kyoto into Africa

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The genetics of wildlife breeding and conservation

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Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter
Homosexual termite regicide
Is it your second cousin? Cotton swabs may tell you
Drinking green tea to prevent artery explosion
Great apes can “read minds”
Mt Aso could erupt much sooner, scientists warn
Aging bonobos in the wild could use reading glasses too
A big nano boost for solar cells
Proteins at the movies
The sea roils and life returns
Safety in darkness

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Reading beyond time and across disciplines

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Working in CiRA labs

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The search for happiness: using MRI to find where happiness happens
Fish oil helps burn fat by transforming fat-storage cells into fat-burning cells
"Seeing" black holes with home-use telescopes
To hear a pit ter patter from afar: catching hear tbeats with milimeter-wave radar
Genetically modified E.coli pump out morphine precursor
"Popular girls" have less lice . in the monkey world
Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rif t Valley
'Slow' NZ seabed quake sheds light on tsunami-earthquake mechanism
Cancer cell immunity in the crosshairs: wor th the expense?
Flipping a protein switch to illuminate brain functions
"Big mama" bonobos help younger females stand up for themselves
Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes?