NARA Institute of Science and Technology

The World's First Robot System for Clothing Assistance!(Oct. 26, 2011)

In Japan's "super aging society," an insufficient number of professional caregivers is generating high expectations ...

A new player for DNA demethylation and genomic imprinting in plants .(Sep. 25, 2011)

DNA methylation/ demethylation plays essential roles in the control of gene expression ...

Discovery of a gene that can reprogram somatic plant cells to early embryonic status .(Aug 1, 2011)

Development of a multicellular organism usually starts from a single fertilized egg, the zygote. How this single cell can yield ...

Mechanism for fine-tuning of the biological clock that controls animal development.(July 28, 2011)

Repeated structure of axial skeleton is the most characteristic structure of vertebrate animals. It consists of...

Professor Yoshiko Takahashi (Graduate School of Biological Sciences) contributed an editorial to Science magazine.(June 10, 2011)

Professor Yoshiko Takahashi was in charge of writing an editorial for the Science, ...

Mobile small RNA as a means to sense cell-cell distance and control cell differentiation status.(May 17, 2011)

Several classes of RNA molecules play essential roles in converting genetic information to protein products....

Nintendo 3DS promotes science by projecting stereo photograph of atomic arrangement(July 11, 2011)

A portable game machine "Nintendo 3DS" opens a way to view atomic arrangement with stereoscopic three-dimensional effects for children....

Programmed induction of endoreduplication by DNA damage in plants(May 24, 2011)

Professor Masaaki Umeda and his team members have discovered that plants undergo a programmed endoreduplicative response...

Sequence specific error profile of Illumina Sequencer has been identified. Toward the higher throughput sequencing of DNA(May 17, 2011)

The emergence of so-called Next Generation Sequencers (NGS) is enabling the analysis of DNA/RNA sequence with much less cost and effort than ever. Among others...

Prof. Ko Shimamoto, Prof. Akiho Yokota and Prof. Hitoshi Kawaguchi received the Prizes for Science and Technology by MEXT on April 11, 2011.(April 11, 2011)

Prof. Ko Shimamoto, Prof. Akiho Yokota and Prof. Hitoshi Kawaguchi were granted the science and technology award (Research Category) by minister of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Bayanihan, save the people, save the country - students from Philippines develop a flood mapping system(March 29, 2011)

Students from the Philippines developed a Web 2.0 front-end for flood mapping systems. In their home country, a number of...

Utmost sensitivity of photoresponsive molecules was achieved in NAIST-MS(January 7, 2011)

Professor Kawai and Nakashima published a scientific paper entitled“Photon-Quantitative Reaction of a Dithiazolylarylene in Solution”in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed...

Novel Non-Self Recognition System That Prevents Inbreeding in Solanaceous Plants (November 5, 2010)

Self-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism that prevents inbreeding and promotes outcrossing to generate genetic diversity. Self-incompatibility provides a model for studying self/non-self discrimination, a fundamental process in biology...

Master Regulators ofNicotine Biosynthesis Discovered in Tobacco -Applications anticipated to boost productivity of useful plant-derived natural products- (October 26, 2010)

Professor Takashi Hashimoto and Assistant Professor Tsubasa Shoji (Graduate School of Biological Sciences) have discovered master genes in tobacco plants that regulate all known structural genes required to synthesize the bioactive...