News The Latest from BDR
News - 2019
From research, events, people and everything in between, find out what’s going on at RIKEN BDR.
Filter by Year
Filter by Category
Displaying 1-20 out of 30 result(s) found
Dec. 2, 2019 BDR News
Public Events
2019 RIKEN Kobe Campus Open House
Nov. 29, 2019 BDR News
New supercomputer dedicated to drug discovery
Nov. 29, 2019 Research
Faster modeling of interactions between ligands and proteins
An improved simulation technique for modeling how small molecules interact with proteins could help the development of new drugs
Nov. 27, 2019 BDR News
Researcher Spotlight
Falling into a career path in research
BDR Team Leader Li-Kun Phng talks about her career path as a scientist, as well as working at BDR as a female lab head and a foreign national.
Nov. 15, 2019 Research
Detecting the metabolites of a single cell
By using an ultrasensitive analysis technique, scientists can now detect the small molecules that a single cell makes
Oct. 31, 2019 BDR News
Chinese ambassador visits Kobe campus
Oct. 11, 2019 Research
Analyzing the metabolites produced by single motile cells
A microfluidic device makes it easy to isolate single motile cells and analyze the metabolites they produce
Oct. 10, 2019 Research
Brain tissue kept alive for weeks on an artificial membrane
Oct. 9, 2019 Research
How chromosomes change their shape during cell differentiation
Aug. 30, 2019 Research
Doubling down on boron to make complex organic molecules
A newly discovered reaction delivers dual boron functionality to produce molecules with many potential applications
Aug. 9, 2019 Research
How phosphorylation of eIF2 reduces protein synthesis
A study of molecular structure reveals how a small chemical change can make a big difference to function in a cell’s response to stress
Aug. 9, 2019 Research
Implantable 3D blastocyst-like embryonic structure generated from mouse stem cells
Jul. 26, 2019 Research
A new model for exploring cell polarity
A method for inducing polarization in cells will allow scientists to explore the real-time processes that occur during cell polarization
Jul. 25, 2019 Research
Toward micro-hearts: tiny pumps driven by self-organizing cardiomyocytes
Jul. 12, 2019 Research
Using the RIKEN click reaction to weaponize antibodies against cancer
A simple reaction can be used to prime an antibody with a radioactive element that enables it to destroy cancer cells
Jul. 8, 2019 Research
Cyborg-like microchip valve driven by earthworm muscle
Jul. 5, 2019 Research
Analyzing chromatin structure in more detail than ever before
The ability to explore the genome on a sub-nucleosome level promises to lead to new discoveries about how chromatin structure is linked to epigenetics
Jun. 28, 2019 BDR News
RIKEN People
Leading the race to regenerate eyes
Michiko Mandai, Deputy Project Leader
Jun. 26, 2019 Research
Unified control of neuronal delamination and outer radial glial cell generation during mammalian cerebral development (PDF file : 204KB)
Jun. 12, 2019 BDR News
Korean ambassador visits Kobe campus