2007.08.09 PRESS RELEASE inflammationIn August, Kazusa DNA Research Institute and RCAI launched a joint research program to identify the genes which cause congenital immuno-deficiency syndrome and elucidate the mechanisms of its pathology.
2007.07.27 PRESS RELEASE How eating cell 'corpses' reduces inflammation Laboratory for Innate Cellular Immunity of RCAI elucidated a new mechanism inducing immunologic tolerance, an acquired immunity that is induced through phagocytosis of dead cells.
2007.07.24 PRESS RELEASE Silencing allergic inflammationLaboratory for Transcriptional Regulation of RCAI discovered that a transcription factor, Runx, regulates the production of IL-4, a substance associated with the body's allergic response.
2007.06.06 PRESS RELEASE Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases and Laboratory for Statistical Analysis of Center for Genomic Medicine, in international collaboration with University of Oxford of UK and Nanjing University of China, found that the effect of asporin, a component ex
2007.05.24 PRESS RELEASE Cell fusion may create niche for immune cell education Discovery of dendritic cell precursors which are important to the ripening of B-cells generating antigens
2007.05.08 PRESS RELEASE A new type of fluctuation behind the metal-nonmetal transition in fluid mercury The Laboratory for Cell Signaling of RCAI has elucidated a new activation mechanism for innate immunity, the frontier of biological defense system studies.
2007.04.30 PRESS RELEASE Halting the inflammation overload Laboratory for Host Defense of RCAI clarified a new regulatory mechanism of innate and adaptive immunity.
2007.04.17 NEWS RIKEN RCAI and the Max Planck Society Hold Joint Meeting on Activation and Regulation of the Immune System
2007.03.26 PRESS RELEASE Genetic polymorphism a potential grind for arthritis patientsJoint research conducted by Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases of RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicineand Nanjing University of China identified a new gene, growth differentiation factor 5 (GDF
2007.03.16 PRESS RELEASE Artificial lymph nodes induce strong immune response Research Unit for Immune Surveillance in RCAI has succeeded in the induction of a strong immune response to severe combined immunodeficient mice by using advanced artificial lymph nodes and identified t
