Figure 1: Experiments are underway to recreate the conditions at the heart of neutron stars, such as this one discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s ...

Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered ...

Figure 1: A computed molecular structure showing an intermediate structure formed during the uphill formation of a bond between two neighboring tetrasubstituted carbon atoms (purple dotted line: a ...

A cryo-electron microscopy study reveals how antiepileptic drugs are recognized by a key protein found in the synapses of neurons ...

A never-before-seen folding structure may have enabled early molecular evolution and the diversification of proteins Figure 1: A computer illustration showing the structure of a molecule of RNA ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) have developed technology that can alter, within the body, the recognized identity of proteins. The innovation, published in Nature ...

Interview with President Makoto Gonokami: Creating a Scientific Research Structure to Break New Ground through Collaboration RIKEN is home to outstanding researchers in a broad range of fields of ...

The Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) views the functions of molecules, cells, and organs that support all life stages of organisms as a dynamic system, and aims to elucidate developmental ...

Our team aims at the development of “next generation synthesis”. We are working on the development of new catalytic systems for direct and selective functionalization of organic molecules to create ...

Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative medical sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered that food antigens like milk proteins help keep tumors from growing in our guts, ...

The Research Instruments Group is responsible for the operation, maintenance, management, and enhancement of the core research equipment and related infrastructure at the Radioactive Isotope (RI) Beam ...

The Prediction Science Laboratory pioneers a new science of prediction as the 5th paradigm fusing the computational science (3rd science) and the data science (4th science) through tight ...