Sir John Gurdon 追悼 　上野直人 x.gd/6J7GX Sir John was a thoughtful and calm scholar, yet when it came to scientific discussions, he spoke with remarkable enthusiasm and passion. Although he was a great scientist, I will never forget the innocent, boyish smile that he would occasionally show.　(抜粋）

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Colorful Mt. Fuji🗻

Crossing on red light! #Nara

Congratulation for the grand prize! #worm25 Art Show

As it’s my first time joining Worm Meeting, I was excited to participate in Worm Art show as well. This year’s topic is resilience. In times of scarcity, worms gather holding one another to reach new grounds. Alone - they are fragile, together - they rise. Even the sky yields in unity. #worm25

My wormy watch😍

Totoro?

You have to hold your breath while we cross the bridge. #SpiritedAway

Snowcap refreshed!

Colorful Mt Fuji

Our Institute preserve >200 cherry species. We have open house today.

Shidare-Zakura + MIshima Sakura ＠Sano museum

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

March 3rd is Hina-Matsuri (Doll's Festival?) day.

Kawazu cherry 🌸

Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here’s a story about actual Nazis, the Original Gastruloid, and the lengths scientists will go for other scientists and for science itself. Welcome to Episode Two of the #LongBibliography #DevBiol #SciHist 🧵. 1/13

I am thrilled that our paper, which is packed with our 10 years of data on the venom proteins of the parasitoid wasp Asobara japonica, has just been published! Parasitoid wasp venoms degrade Drosophila imaginal discs for successful parasitism | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First 🌅 of the year

It is custom in Japan to have soba-noodle at the final day of the year. It is called toshi-koshi-soba (over-the-year soba).

✋ microPublication Biology has joined Bluesky.

Dr. Shigeru Kondo who has been working on Turing pattern in Biology is a new director of our institute. English version of his messages that are very encouraging is here. www.nig.ac.jp/nig/2024/12/...

12月1日から、国立遺伝学研究所の所長として赴任しました近藤滋です。 日本の基礎科学を盛り上げるために、精一杯働く所存です。皆さん、ご協力をお願いいたします。 所長挨拶： www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/about... 学生へのメッセージ： www.nig.ac.jp/nig/ja/phd-p... どちらも、楽しく読んでいただけるように書きました。特に、学生へのメッセージの方ができが良いので、まずそちらからお読みいただけますと幸いです。

Dr. Shigeru Kondo who has been working on Turing pattern in Biology is a new director of our institute. English version of his messages that are very encouraging is here. www.nig.ac.jp/nig/2024/12/...

Three Wnt signalling proteins help to organise cells in the gonads of a nematode worm. https://buff.ly/3OIeu6o

Here is the direct link to eLife digest. You can see the difference of DTC migration in wild (left) and triple mutant (right) elifesciences.org/digests/1030...

Formatted version has been published. Our work was selected for eLife digest. elifesciences.org/articles/103...

Using "show more/less like this" command, my timeline (Discover) now shows me mostly landscape and space photos except for posts by follow accounts😊

I think you know what it is!

Snow capped Mt. Fuji😊

Finally, snow on the mountain😊

Our recent publication! We showed how Wnt signaling makes C. elegans gonad mirror symmetric. elifesciences.org/articles/103...