Enu Pharma, a biotech venture spun off from Hokkaido University, announced on January 31st that it has raised a total of 400 million yen in seed funding. The funding round, conducted in December ...

Even though 'glacial' is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has found that glaciers speed up and slow down on a daily -- even hourly -- basis in response to changes ...

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University and the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR).Detailed study of a Greenland ...

From the nation's best ranked university to ones teaching according to Christian values, you'll find that the English ...

Kristina Schmidt, 24, developed agonizing pain in her right hip that “felt like someone was tearing her leg off” and ...

Because of climate change, harmful algal blooms are increasing in frequency and intensity. New science helps demystify the frequent harmful algal blooms in the Pacific off the coast of Chile by ...

On Oct. 20, at the COSMAX China R&I Center in Shanghai, China, Meng Hong, the Deputy Director (Professor) of the ...

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes called HABs, occur when algae grow out of control. Algae are photosynthetic organisms that mostly live in water and ...

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan 's northern main island of Hokkaido, disrupting traffic, causing airport closures and ...

Life on South Tyneside was a merry occasion after the Second World War if this amusing tale was anything to go by.