Nagoya University

The group led by Associate Professor Kazuhiro Nakazawa at Nagoya University/KMI, and doctorial course student Yuki Omiya at the Graduate School of Science, in collaboration with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo…

A research group at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University in Japan has used artificial intelligence to determine that Piezo, a channel that receives mechanical stimuli, plays a role in controlling the mating posture of male…

A team of researchers led by Drs. Momoko Takagi and Yosuke Toda (concurrently affiliated with phytometrics co. ltd.) at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM※) at Nagoya University, part of the Tokai National Higher…

A group from Nagoya University in Japan has discovered that when the diet of nematodes, tiny worms measuring about a millimeter or less in length, includes the bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri, the weakening of associative learning ability…

A new type of aromatic nanobelt, methylene-bridged cycloparaphenylene (MCPP), has been synthesized and its properties elucidated by researchers at the Institute of Transformative Bio-molecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University in Japan, in…

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered a receptor, sigma-1 receptor, and a protein, ATAD3A, that are associated with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Since there are drugs that…

An international team of astrophysicists and cosmologists including researchers from Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI) at Nagoya University, the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics…

Researchers at the Institute for Future Materials and Systems at Nagoya University in Japan have successfully synthesized barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanosheets with a thickness of 1.8 nanometers, the thinnest thickness ever created for a…

A research group at Nagoya University in Japan has successfully developed an ultrafast and simple synthetic method for producing indole derivatives. Their findings are expected to make drug production more efficient and increase the range…

A group from Nagoya University has identified the optimal dimensions of glass filters for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), demonstrating that they could detect cells from lung cancer patients. Using…