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X-ray micro-CT provides OIST researchers with the ability to visualize and take detailed 3D measurements of tiny structures, like the brain of an ant.

OIST’s Ecology and Evolution Unit has developed a method to extract and sequence DNA from old and fragile museum specimens.

Professor Robert Sinclair is using mathematics in unusual places, like paleontology.

Researchers in OIST’s Open Biology Unit are working on a physiological computer modeling platform called PhysioDesigner.

Researchers in the Information Processing Biology Unit have discovered the sensor for high pH in the tiny worm C. elegans.

OIST researcher uses a computational approach in identifying proteins that will interact with potential drugs to speed up the process of drug discovery.

Researchers discover the timer that tells jellyfish when to mature.

Researchers in the G0 Cell Unit investigated what exactly happened inside fission yeast cells under nitrogen starvation.

Prof. Economo described a new ant species and named it ‘Pristomyrmex tsujii’ after University of Ryukyus Professor Kazuki Tsuji.

OIST's Dr. Garth Ilsley has succeeded in modelling early regulation of development in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Ants specimens were collected over a two-week trip to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens. The species richness in Xishuangbanna is now being threatened by deforestation.

Prof. Evan Economo, who leads OIST’s Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, was awarded the 2013 Presidential Award from the American Society of Naturalists (ASN).