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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), led by Center Director Satoshi Matsuoka, is an international hub for computational science that promotes “science of computing, by computing, and for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three-nucleon force (3NF), the forces where three nucleons interact, is a key element in the accurate description of nuclear phenomena. The main topic of this laboratory is the experimental study 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 ...