News Institutional News Research Update Facet News type Algebra Analysis Artificial intelligence Atomic physics Biochemistry Bioinformatics Biology Biophysics Biotechnology Botany Cell biology Chemistry Complex systems Computer sciences Condensed matter physics Cyber Security Data science Deep learning Developmental biology Developmental neuroscience Ecology Engineering and applied sciences Environmental sciences Evolutionary biology Fluid dynamics Genetics Genomics Health sciences Immunology Informatics Machine learning Marine sciences Material science Mathematics Mechanics Medicine (-) Molecular biology Nanoscience Neuroscience Optics Organic chemistry Photonics Physics Physiology Polymer chemistry Psychology Quantum Quantum field theory Robotics Soft matter physics Structural biology Synthetic biology Synthetic organic chemistry Theoretical sciences Topology Virology Facet Specialty 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 Facet Date Created Clear filters Research Update Coping with Jumping Junk In the journal Nature Communications, Prof. Saze and his collaborators announced the discovery of a cellular mechanism in the flowering plant Arabidopsis that masks the effects of transposable elements. 13 August 2013 Research Update How Do Neurons Recognize Each Other at Synapses? In a paper in the June 5 issue of Neuron, researchers in the Cell Signal Unit and colleagues identified the mechanism behind how synapses assemble in cortico-basal ganglia circuits. 17 May 2013 Research Update New Unit Profile: Knocking Out Pathogens As an immunologist, Prof. Ishikawa studies how our bodies defend themselves against pathogens like bacteria, fungi, and viruses using the mouse as a model. 12 November 2012 Research Update Basis of a Novel Drug-delivery System May be Hiding in our Cells In a paper published on August 17 in Cell, a team of researchers including OIST's Ulf Skoglund details a major step forward in understanding what caveolae look like and how they behave—and points the way toward a potentially game-changing method of drug delivery. 20 August 2012 Research Update Two OIST Units Team Up to Probe Life’s Beginnings As we grow, an intricate choreography of genetic controls begins to differentiate our cells, turning some genes off and others up to full-blast, eventually yielding fully-formed animals. Researchers at OIST are working to learn more about this choreography. 24 July 2012 Research Update Fly spit yields find about genetic controls and differences between sexes In a paper published yesterday in Science, a team of researchers that includes OIST's Nick Luscombe shows that the long-accepted view of how male fruit flies manipulate their genes’ activity should be revised. Their finding shows how cells use a single, crucial regulator to change the activity of large numbers of genes at the same time. 19 July 2012 Research Update New Unit Profile: Beautiful Viruses Using the papilloma and polyoma viruses as subjects, Prof. Matthias Wolf’s team is focusing on how viruses latch on to cells, poke holes in the cell membrane, and inject their genetic material into their hosts, thereby infecting them. 06 June 2012 Research Update Interrogating Elusive Membrane Proteins The Trans-Membrane Trafficking Unit is taking a sort of good cop-bad cop approach to one membrane protein complex, using two different means to grill it for information. 05 June 2012 Research Update Skin-Deep Secrets In a recent paper published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Prof. Skoglund and his co-authors describe for the first time the structure of the waterproof part of the skin. 18 May 2012 Institutional News Prof. Mitsuhiro Yanagida elected to US National Academy of Sciences Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his excellence in original scientific research, the NAS announced on May 1. 02 May 2012 Research Update Genetic Mutation Isn’t So Random After All A team led by Nicholas Luscombe has answered a key question about the mechanism of genetic mutation and evolution. His new study shows that living things are able to tightly guard their most valuable genes, while leaving others more vulnerable to chance mutations. 26 April 2012 Research Update New Unit Profile: DNA’s Minders The Plant Epigenetics Unit, headed by Hidetoshi Saze, studies how epigenetic changes come about, a question with wide-ranging implications for plants and animals. 16 April 2012 Pagination First page … 6 7 8 Last page Media Coverage Coverage of OIST in the media and on the web Media Coverage
Research Update Coping with Jumping Junk In the journal Nature Communications, Prof. Saze and his collaborators announced the discovery of a cellular mechanism in the flowering plant Arabidopsis that masks the effects of transposable elements. 13 August 2013
Research Update How Do Neurons Recognize Each Other at Synapses? In a paper in the June 5 issue of Neuron, researchers in the Cell Signal Unit and colleagues identified the mechanism behind how synapses assemble in cortico-basal ganglia circuits. 17 May 2013
Research Update New Unit Profile: Knocking Out Pathogens As an immunologist, Prof. Ishikawa studies how our bodies defend themselves against pathogens like bacteria, fungi, and viruses using the mouse as a model. 12 November 2012
Research Update Basis of a Novel Drug-delivery System May be Hiding in our Cells In a paper published on August 17 in Cell, a team of researchers including OIST's Ulf Skoglund details a major step forward in understanding what caveolae look like and how they behave—and points the way toward a potentially game-changing method of drug delivery. 20 August 2012
Research Update Two OIST Units Team Up to Probe Life’s Beginnings As we grow, an intricate choreography of genetic controls begins to differentiate our cells, turning some genes off and others up to full-blast, eventually yielding fully-formed animals. Researchers at OIST are working to learn more about this choreography. 24 July 2012
Research Update Fly spit yields find about genetic controls and differences between sexes In a paper published yesterday in Science, a team of researchers that includes OIST's Nick Luscombe shows that the long-accepted view of how male fruit flies manipulate their genes’ activity should be revised. Their finding shows how cells use a single, crucial regulator to change the activity of large numbers of genes at the same time. 19 July 2012
Research Update New Unit Profile: Beautiful Viruses Using the papilloma and polyoma viruses as subjects, Prof. Matthias Wolf’s team is focusing on how viruses latch on to cells, poke holes in the cell membrane, and inject their genetic material into their hosts, thereby infecting them. 06 June 2012
Research Update Interrogating Elusive Membrane Proteins The Trans-Membrane Trafficking Unit is taking a sort of good cop-bad cop approach to one membrane protein complex, using two different means to grill it for information. 05 June 2012
Research Update Skin-Deep Secrets In a recent paper published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Prof. Skoglund and his co-authors describe for the first time the structure of the waterproof part of the skin. 18 May 2012
Institutional News Prof. Mitsuhiro Yanagida elected to US National Academy of Sciences Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his excellence in original scientific research, the NAS announced on May 1. 02 May 2012
Research Update Genetic Mutation Isn’t So Random After All A team led by Nicholas Luscombe has answered a key question about the mechanism of genetic mutation and evolution. His new study shows that living things are able to tightly guard their most valuable genes, while leaving others more vulnerable to chance mutations. 26 April 2012
Research Update New Unit Profile: DNA’s Minders The Plant Epigenetics Unit, headed by Hidetoshi Saze, studies how epigenetic changes come about, a question with wide-ranging implications for plants and animals. 16 April 2012