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Posted by Dina Mikimoto, on 2 June 2023
Gender problems in STEM are familiar to women researchers in every corner of the world. Japan is no exception. In a culture that seeks harmony and balance with people around, ...Posted by Guojun, on 10 January 2023
March 5-10, 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Asia will host a human development meeting in Awaji (Japan). Join us in this beautiful island and meet like-minded, human-centric dev bio and stem ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 23 July 2018
Parasitic plants are fascinating and agriculturally relevant organisms that rely for their success on the haustorium, a specialised root structure that invades host root vasculature to derive nutrients and water. A ...Posted by the Node, on 5 June 2017
This interview by Katherine Brown first appeared in Development, Volume 144, Issue 11. Hiroshi Hamada is the Director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan. His lab ...Posted by the Node, on 24 May 2017
This obituary by Hisato Kondoh and Harukazu Nakamura first appeared in Development, May 15th 2017. Tokindo S. Okada (here referred to as TSO) was one of the leaders who steered developmental ...Posted by NanamiMorooka, on 9 January 2017
This is the latest dispatch from a recipient of a Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship. Learn more about the scheme, including how to apply, here, and read more stories from ...Posted by Yhamada, on 14 July 2016
I am Yoshimasa Hamada, a Research Fellow in Okayama University Graduate School in Japan, working with Prof. Kenji Tomioka, Prof. Hideyo Ohuchi, Prof. Sumihare Noji and Dr. Tetsuya Bando. Our ...Posted by Juan Pascual-Anaya, on 19 June 2014
The heat started to increase in Japan, as the rainy season approached and with it the high levels of temperature and humidity. But this was not an obstacle for scientists from ...Posted by Robert Blassberg, on 26 April 2013
On the 25th and 26th of February 2013 we were invited to attend a joint UK-Japan workshop on Neural Epigenetics at the British Embassy in Tokyo, which aimed to stimulate ...Posted by Mariana Delfino-Machin, on 22 March 2013
When your model organism of choice is medaka, and you spend your mornings trying to rid your embryos of their tough chorion, you comfort yourself thinking that one day all ...