KyotoU Research News

2022 Winter

Contents

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cover story
101 years of Ashiu
10
cutting edge
Icarus can fly high and save on wax to
Quantum physics helps destroy cancer cells
11 Space: the wooden frontier
12
Setting Covid-19 drug trials up for success
Bringing order to hydrogen energy devices
13
Life is but a dream
14
Society is not ready to make human brains
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KyotoU today
Science with industry & society : Running LAPs together for citizen science
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Global endeavors
Strategic partnerships fostering mutual trust for effective international collaboration
Kyoto ASEAN Virtual Fields drones, VR images, & aerial photographs using ICT
Onsite lab: start-up and venture promotion from KURC-SD
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Student voices
19
Eternal aesthetic

2021 Winter

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
Crossroads of the world and the mind
08
KyotoU moving forward
10
In Covid’s wake
11
Cutting edge
A special elemental magic
How do birds understand ‘foreign’ calls?
12
From bacteria to you: the biological reactions that sustain our rhythms
13
Two for the price of one
Flaring, massively
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Two for the price of one
Order from chaos
15
Changing ties that naturally bind
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Reducing the high social cost of death
Detect with PKAch
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Terahertz zaps alter gene activity in stem cells
18
How does the spider spin its self-assembled silk?
19
KyotoU today
Science with industry: The forest and the trees: science supporting ASEAN
20
New strategic partnerships established
21
News from overseas centers
22
Student voices
23
Eternal aesthetic

2020 Spring

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
Into the human unknown
10
Cutting edge
Bridging the scales of the brain
An overactive cerebellum causes issues across the brain
11
Why fruit flies eat practically anything
12
Lend me a flipper
Using a chip to find better cancer fighting drugs
13
The little auks that lived in the Pacific
14
Reconstructing the clock of human development
15
KyotoU today
Science with industry: KyotoU venture bringing light to patients’ eyes
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News from overseas centers
18
Student voices
19
Eternal aesthetic

2019 Autumn

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
An Asian Humanities, for the future
10
Cutting edge
A petrifying virus key to evolution
Let there be light-activated genes
11
Infer tility’s roots in DNA packaging
12
Prince Charming’s kiss unlocking brain’s regenerative potential?
Chimps caught crabbing
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A study in scarlet Japanese macaques
14
Testing corneal cell quality? Apply physics
The worms that roared
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KyotoU today
So tell us...
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News from overseas centers
17
On-Site Laboratory network established
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Student voices
19
Eternal aesthetic

2019 Spring

Contents

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Nobel Prize 2018
Congratulations, Honjo-sensei!
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Defining ‘Kyotoness’ in the research environment
08
Driven by curiosity
10
Cutting edge
New gears in your sleep clock
What does the koala genome tell us about the taste of eucalyptus?
11
Meet ERICA. She wants to listen to you
12
Giant, recently extinct seabird also inhabited Japan
Japanese in Canada, with mixed feelings
13
Finding success through failure
Using microcredit to increase rice yield in Bangladesh
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Making an eye for you
15
KyotoU today
Science with industry: Microbes are us. But how can we see them?
16
News from overseas centers
18
Student voices
19
Eternal aesthetic

2018 Autumn

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
The high-tech astronomy of Seimei
08
Personnel profiles
Understanding the machines, Kyoto style
12
Cutting edge
High achievement not always based on high student initiative
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
13
Visualizing danger from songbird warning calls
14
What a handsome schnoz!
Electro-mechano-optical NMR detection
15
Twisting graphene into spirals
16
Studying the human impact on sea urchin abundance
Capturing the rare Yanbaru whiskered bat
17
Using geometry and qubits to build real universes
18
KyotoU today
KURNe: research news in motion
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News from overseas centers
20
Science with industry: Mining answers from the data mountain
21
So tell us... what do you do and how did you get to Japan?
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Student voices
23
Eternal aesthetic

2018 Spring

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
Humanities 101 : A Kyoto approach to history, society, and the study of humanity
12
Cutting edge
Special delivery : macromolecules via spider’s ‘bite’
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia
13
Black hole pair born inside a dying star?
How am I feeling? Ask my house
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Lightning, with a chance of antimatter
15
Winds blowing off a dying star
The secret lives of ancient land plants
16
What grosses out a chimpanzee?
17
Cells rockin’ in their DNA
18
News from overseas centers
20
Student voices
22
Global outreach
23
Eternal aesthetic

2017 Autumn

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
Earth, sky, space, and everything in between
08
Personnel Profiles
ARN:student perspectives
12
Cutting edge
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
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International activities
19
News from overseas centers
20
Student voices
22
Global outreach
23
Eternal aesthetic

2017 Spring

Contents

03
Backstage at the lab
Kyoto into Africa
08
Personnel Profiles
The genetics of wildlife breeding and conservation
12
Cutting edge
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
18
International activities
20
Student voices
22
Global outreach
23
Eternal aesthetic

2016 Autumn

Contents

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from the President
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On the cover: Backstage at the lab
Reading beyond time and across disciplines
08
Personnel Profiles
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?
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International activities
20
Student voices
22
Global outreach
23
Eternal aesthetic