Research Results

2026/09/10

Co-digestion of Waste and Wastewater from Biomanufacturing for Energy Recovery
—New Reactor Developed to Efficiently Enable Solid Organic Waste Solubilization and Methane Production by Anaerobic Microorganisms—

2026/09/02

Exercise Alters Brain Activity During Cognitive Tasks
—By performing repeated measurements using advanced imaging techniques, we can isolate the effects of exercise and task repetition and visualize changes in brain activity.—

2026/08/31

New Insights into the Mechanisms of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Involved in Gene Regulation
—Potential Role of the Histone Acetylation Site in Regulating Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation—

2026/08/24

From “Disposal” to “Reuse” of Wastewater
—Technology Developed to Control Microbial Communities in Activated Sludge at Nitrogen Removal Treatment Plants—

2026/08/20

Cell Culture Supporting Biomanufacturing: New Technology for Identifying Differences and Conditions in Culture Media
—Detecting the overall characteristics of culture medium components as fluorescence patterns and evaluating quality using machine learning—

2026/07/17

From “AI That Sees a Single Object” to “AI That Compares Multiple Objects”
—A point-cloud language model that describes individual parts and the geometric relationships between them—

2026/07/02

Could “Trojan horse”-type microorganisms that exploit symbiotic systems be candidates for new biological pesticides?
—Discovery of a pathogenic microorganism that invades the symbiotic organ of stink bugs and proliferates abnormally, by mimicking symbiotic microorganisms—

2026/06/25

Elucidating the Mechanism by Which Soil Contributes to Pest Outbreaks
—Soil pH Regulates the Symbiosis Between Agricultural Pests (Stink Bugs) and Gut Bacteria—

2026/06/01

Intrinsic High Elasticity in Pristine Glass via Melt-Quenching

2026/05/26

Estimating the Key Coral Source Populations that Connect Coral Reef Islands
—Visualization of Marine Ecological Networks Using Population Genetic Analysis and the Kuroshio Current Model—

2026/05/21

Want to see inside a battery?
—Ultra-thin working electrodes enable direct, real-time visualization of electrochemical reactions inside pressed and closed batteries.—

2026/05/13

New Technology Developed for Stable Magnetic Data Writing Using Voltage-Driven Switching
—Toward the Realization of Ultra-Low-Power Non-Volatile MRAM—

2026/04/20

Decoding coastal environments from space: Hyperspectral insights into the signature of chlorophyll-α
—An innovative environmental monitoring approach enabled by Space–Biodiversity integration—

2026/04/07

Development of multi-stage dimming blinds enabling quick and easy operation
—Specially designed patterned polarizing sheets molded in a single step via nanoimprint technology—

2026/04/06

Simultaneous analysis of numerous low-molecular-weight metabolites in human plasma in less than one second
—Development of an analytical method enabling big data generation and disease stratification—

2026/03/25

A Micro-Step Mixing Experiment with Ilmenite and Pyroxene
—Establishing a data infrastructure to accurately determine the ilmenite content in the lunar maria through remote sensing—

2026/03/24

Controlling Pancreatic Cancer's Immune Evasion Capabilities with Glycans
—Development of a Novel Screening Technology for Glyco-immune Checkpoint Molecules—

2026/03/17

Streamlining Protein Function Prediction
—Combining molecular simulations and protein language models to augment training data—

2026/03/13

Konica Minolta and AIST Develop AI-based Technology to Optimize the Conditions for Compounding and Molding Composite Plastics

2026/03/12

Identification of a key bacterial gene for symbiotic evolution
—Disruption of a tryptophan-degrading enzyme gene makes E. coli mutualistic to stinkbug—