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Research Update

Smartgels Are Thicker Than Water

Professor Amy Shen develops smartgels, viscous and elastic substances with useful properties such as sensitivity to glucose spikes, which would help diabetics monitor their blood sugar.

19 September 2014

Institutional News

Minister Yamaguchi Visits OIST

Newly appointed minister acknowledges interaction and interdisciplinary studies on his first visit.

11 September 2014

Research Update

OIST Welcomes New PhD Students

The third class of doctoral students introduced themselves to OIST and received a resounding welcome from the community.

02 September 2014

Research Update

To See or Not to See

OIST researcher Sigita Augustinaite suggests a mechanism for how dendritic potentials in thalamocortical neurons allow visual signals to pass from retina to cortex.

01 September 2014

Research Update

The Mystery of Cell Proliferation: Matching Histone to DNA

New research from Professor Ichiro Masai points to stem-loop binding protein for cell proliferation and differentiation in living vertebrates

Institutional News

New Facilities for OIST’s Youngest Learners

The new Child Development Center is ready to replace the temporary structure that has hosted the CDC since January 2013, doubling the number of children that the CDC can accommodate to 100.

Research Update

Surviving the Attack of Killer Microbes

If some microbes have the ability to kill all other microbes, how do the non-killers survive?

Research Update

To See OIST on a Grain of Salt

OIST specialist used an ion beam to carve the logo so small that it can fit onto a grain of salt.

Institutional News

Japanese Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki Visits OIST

Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki visits OIST to discuss her long journey of training and space travel in a talk entitled “Linking Space, People, and Dreams.”

Research Update

Simulating the Invisible

Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos simulates the interactions of particles that are too small to see, and too complicated to visualize.

Institutional News

Humpback Whale Comes to OIST

OIST has a new resident: a life-size humpback whale! On June 28, eighty children visited OIST to paint a mural of a humpback whale with Okinawan artist pokke104.