• Column: New Students From 15 Different Countries and Areas

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    The forth article is now online : OIST's column series at the Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+ "Scientists without boarders from Chura-shima". It is about...

  • Structural Cellular Biology Unit in the News

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    An paper published in Nature Communications has detailed a study into the shape of bacterial cells and their associated z-rings. Authored by Dr. Bill ...

  • Marine Genomics Unit Decodes Asian Catfish Genome

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    The Marine Genomics Units teamed with researchers at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology to decode the striped catfish’s entire genome. Th...

  • BOOKS AND ARTS : Do luxe labs shape science?

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    Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions Sandra Kaji‑O’Grady, Chris L. Smith and Russell Hughes MIT Press (2019) ...

  • Arrow Worm Study Reveals Evolutionary Trends

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    Chaetognaths, whose name means “bristle-jaw,” can be found all over world, swimming in brackish estuaries, tropical seas and above the deep dark o...

  • SCORE! Event - TV Report

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    SCORE!, a start-up contest for local high school students jointly hosted by OIST was featured in QAB's evening news:   QABプラス...

  • Mouse Model of Parkinson's in the News

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    Researchers in the Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit uncovered abnormal brain activity patterns that may contribute to the symptoms of Parkinson's di...

  • Prof. Kono Helps Uncover How Cells Split Smoothly

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    Prof. Keiko Kono of the Membranology Unit co-authored a new study unpacking the intricacies of mitosis. She and her colleagues discovered that cyclin-...

  • OIST News Creates Media Hurricane

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    The study "Slower decay of landfalling hurricanes in a warming world" by Lin Li and Pinaki Chakraborty of the Fluid Mechanics Unit was published ...

  • Column: Reduce, reuse, recycle… or remove

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    The latest OIST column in the Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+ is out now. This month, science writer Lucy Dickie interviewed PhD candidate Christina Ripken about...