Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research ... chromatin that often closed up during aging, preventing the regulator encoded by this region of DNA from being made.

The flow of water helps drive the formation of new blood vessels in zebrafish Figure 1: A confocal light micrograph showing blood vessels in a three-day-old zebrafish (magenta: endothelial cells of ...

Now researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) report they have discovered that acetate could trigger an immune response against potentially harmful bacteria.

A central regulator of the inflammatory response shows ... such as T cells and neutrophils," explains Takashi Tanaka of the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology in Yokohama.

Yoichi Gondo from the RIKEN BioResource Center in Tsukuba ... The identification of gumby as a regulator of angiogenesis could eventually lead to new cancer drugs that prevent tumors from growing ...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan have gained new clues that suggest the existence of a regulatory network that contributes to the irregular proliferation of ...

Now, a team of RIKEN biologists has discovered the master regulator that directs how these proteins are laid down in the neuroblasts of developing fruit fly, or Drosophila, embryos. Fumio ...

In efforts to understand the neural basis for loneliness, Kansai Fukumitsu and others at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have found a molecular indicator and regulator of social ...