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Kyoto U Research News interactive web edition
2019 Spring
Contents
Congratulations, Honjo-sensei!
New gears in your sleep clock
What does the koala genome tell us about the taste of eucalyptus?
Japanese in Canada, with mixed feelings
Using microcredit to increase rice yield in Bangladesh
Science with industry: Microbes are us. But how can we see them?
2018 Autumn
Contents
The high-tech astronomy of Seimei
Understanding the machines, Kyoto style
High achievement not always based on high student initiative
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Electro-mechano-optical NMR detection
Capturing the rare Yanbaru whiskered bat
KURNe: research news in motion
2018 Spring
Contents
Humanities 101 : A Kyoto approach to history, society, and the study of humanity
Special delivery : macromolecules via spider’s ‘bite’
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia
How am I feeling? Ask my house
The secret lives of ancient land plants
2017 Autumn
Contents
Earth, sky, space, and everything in between
ARN:student perspectives
Energizing immune cells to combat cancer
Visualizing nuclear radiation
Choosing a simpler path to drug discovery
Charting the skies of history
Born to love superheroes
High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet
You don’t see what I see?
Disentangling chloroplast genetics
Untangling the knots in cell stress
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Nicking in new nucleotides
2017 Spring
Contents
Kyoto into Africa
The genetics of wildlife breeding and conservation
Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter
Homosexual termite regicide
Is it your second cousin? Cotton swabs may tell you
Drinking green tea to prevent artery explosion
Great apes can “read minds”
Mt Aso could erupt much sooner, scientists warn
Aging bonobos in the wild could use reading glasses too
A big nano boost for solar cells
Proteins at the movies
The sea roils and life returns
Safety in darkness
2016 Autumn
Contents
03 from the President
Reading beyond time and across disciplines
Working in CiRA labs
11 News from overseas centers
12 Cutting edge
The search for happiness: using MRI to find where happiness happens
Fish oil helps burn fat by transforming fat-storage cells into fat-burning cells
"Seeing" black holes with home-use telescopes
To hear a pit ter patter from afar: catching hear tbeats with milimeter-wave radar
Genetically modified E.coli pump out morphine precursor
"Popular girls" have less lice . in the monkey world
Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rif t Valley
'Slow' NZ seabed quake sheds light on tsunami-earthquake mechanism
Cancer cell immunity in the crosshairs: wor th the expense?
Flipping a protein switch to illuminate brain functions
"Big mama" bonobos help younger females stand up for themselves
Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes?
18 International activities
20 Student voices
22 Global outreach
23 Eternal aesthetic