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September 25, 2023: Dr. Pauline Robbe, Research Scientist of the Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology, received Hamblin Prize 2023 at the UK CLL Forum NEWS
July 31, 2023: Dr. Pauline Robbe, Research Scientist of the Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology, received the JSH Best Symposium Award Diamond NEWS
July 19, 2023: French Minister of Higher Education and Research visits Yokohama Campus NEWS
July 4, 2023: Feature Highlight: Double whammy inflates gastric cancer risk by 45%
Working in tandem, a stomach microbe and rare variants found in nine genes greatly increase the risk of gastric cancer over a lifetime NEWS
June 16, 2023: Dr. Yukinori Okada, Team leader of the Laboratory for Systems Genetics, received the EULAR 2023 Abstract Award (Basic Science) NEWS
June 6, 2023: Research Highlight: How the immune system becomes overactivated in old age
By engineering mice lacking a key signaling molecule, researchers have shed light on how the immune system causes problems in elderly people NEWS
June 6, 2023: Dr. Arita's research introduction movie "Cutting-edge lipidomics technology reveals the biology of lipid diversity and disease control" is now available on the RIKEN English YouTube channel NEWS
April 19, 2023: Research Highlight: Gene-silencing complexes join forces to inactivate X chromosomes
Two protein complexes play key but different roles in silencing one X chromosome in female mammals NEWS
April 19, 2023: Research Highlight: A gut microbe that can exacerbate obesity
One species of bacteria that lives in the gut can contribute to weight gain in mice by overproducing trans fatty acids NEWS
March 27, 2023: IMS scientists received the 2022 RIKEN EIHO and BAIHO Awards NEWS
March 16, 2023: Research Highlight: The secret to preserving stem cell identity over time
The mechanism by which stem cells pass on their ability to change into other kinds of cells to the next generation has been uncovered NEWS
February 15, 2023: Research Highlight: New genetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis revealed by analysis of multiple ancestry groups NEWS
February 14, 2023: DeepInsight-3D architecture for anti-cancer drug response prediction with deep-learning on multi-omics NEWS
January 27, 2023: Research Highlight: Gut microbe degrades digestive enzyme trypsin in the large intestine
A gut bacterium in the large intestine may help keep a digestive enzyme in check and provide higher protection from viruses NEWS