RIKEN Kobe and Osaka Campus Open House

This year's open house will be held online, on Saturday, October 31. Live-streamed programs will start from 10:00 am.

Registration fee: FREE. Registration deadline: 10/23 (Fri)

Identify the molecules responsible for transcriptional bursting

Lab for Bioinformatics Research, in collaboration with Hiroshima University and others, identified key players in the molecular mechanism behind the on/off nature of DNA transcription using single cell RNA-seq.

Humans develop more slowly than mice because our chemistry is different

Miki Ebisuya (former Lab for Reconstitutive Developmental Biology) and collaborators found that differences in the speeds of biochemical reactions may underlie differences between species in the tempo of development.

Coordination of hormonal signaling and nutrient metabolism drives critical life-cycle transition

Takashi Nishimura (former Lab for Growth Control Signaling) discovered the way in which steroid hormones regulate nutrient metabolism in fruit flies so as to provide the energy larvae need to enter the pupal stage.

A neural circuit that makes rodents go into a hibernation-like state found

BDR's Genshiro Sunagawa (Lab for Retinal Regeneration), in collaboration with a research group at University of Tsukuba, identified a neural circuit that can induce rodents to enter a state similar to hibernation.

Mice need kinetochores rich in a microtubule crosslinker to achieve error-free oocyte division

Recent work by Lab for Chromosome Segregation's Shuhei Yoshida, Tomoya Kitajima and others revealed insights into why human oocytes are error prone.