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18 Jul 2017

Parasite Revealed: New Insights into Dicyemida

Researchers decisively classify marine parasite Dicyemida, yielding new opportunities for understanding parasites and evolution.

13 Jul 2017

Chillier Winters, Smaller Beaks

Researchers find that cold winters contributed to the evolution of beak size in Australasian songbirds.

11 Jul 2017

OIST Diving Incident - the Way Forward

It is now nearly eight months since the tragic diving incident when an OIST professional diver disappeared. Since that date OIST has been engaged in a rigorous examination to understand the background to the incident and to understand how OIST must adapt its health and safety procedures to make sure that such an incident does not happen again.

7 Jul 2017

Recruiting Manganese to Upgrade Carbon Dioxide

OIST researchers developed simple catalysts based on Earth-abundant manganese to use carbon dioxide for energy storage or turn it into useful chemicals for the industry.

3 Jun 2017

New Mechanism Behind Parkinson’s Disease Revealed

Researchers have identified the toxic mechanism at work during an overabundance of alpha-synuclein, a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease, in neurons.

30 May 2017

Subduing the Rebellion: Unmasking Rogue Cells in the Immune System

OIST researchers discovered a target to single out immune system cells responsible for auto-immune diseases such as arthritis or irritable bowel syndrome.

6 Apr 2017

Into the DNA of a Coral Reef Predator

Researchers from OIST and Australia have sequenced and decoded for the first time the genome of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish, paving the way for the biocontrol of this invasive predator responsible for the destruction of coral reefs across indo-pacific oceans.