Riken Podcast

RIKEN Podcast: February

Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:00:00 +0000

This month it's all about the brain: Yoshiki Sasai's recipe for growing brain tissue from stem cells, how our early life experiences shape the wiring of our brain's visual centre, and the RIKEN researchers that used brain cells to clone mice frozen for over a decade.

RIKEN Podcast: December

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:46:01 +0000

Join us on a trip to the English countryside to see how RIKEN researchers are using beams of muons to probe the micro-structure of materials. Also in this show, sex cell determination and the unusual wave-bending properties of metamaterials.

RIKEN Podcast: November

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:56:08 +0000

A new kind of microscope that could bring colour to the nanoworld and the latest research from RIKEN's Plant Science Centre.

RIKEN Podcast: October

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:58:29 +0000

Learning and memory-building in the brain, the enzyme complex behind metabolic syndrome and the origin of superconductivity.

RIKEN Podcast: September

Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000

A radical new approach to blood transfusions, the genetics of lower-back pain and how research into plant toxins could help scientists design better anti-cancer drugs.