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Major Japanese national university conducting research across sciences, medicine and engineering, including immunology, physics and chemistry.
University of Osaka researchers distinguished L- and D-amino acids at the single-molecule level with over 80 percent accuracy. The gold nanogap chip, published in Nature Communications, is far smaller than current instruments but is not yet a scanner.
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University of Osaka chemists report in Nature a rhodium-catalysed reaction that inserts one carbon atom into biphenylene single bonds to form spirocycles. Earlier carbon-transfer methods worked largely through double bonds, so single-bond insertion is the new part.
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University of Osaka researchers used a gold nanogap and AI to tell L- from D-amino acids one molecule at a time, at over 80% accuracy. On meteorite and desert extracts it matched standard methods, so a compact life-detection instrument is still a hope.
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University of Osaka researchers drove protons to 132 MeV with a long-pulse laser and graphene targets that survived the prepulse. That shows ultrathin targets can work with long pulses, though the release reports a peak energy without the beam figures a practical accelerator needs.
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University of Nottingham researchers tie remembered responsive care, free play and a warm home to adult well-being in the UK, US and Japan. Both ends of the link come from participants' own reports, so the study cannot yet separate how people were raised from how they remember it.
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Osaka researchers found CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes rise from 4 percent to 17.6 percent of circulating T cells across the oldest age brackets. Outside immunologists want function, not just counts.
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A University of Osaka team solved the first crystal structure of the pufferfish Tas1r1/Tas1r3 binding domain and found bridges between subdomains that keep the clamshell closed on an imperfect fit. Flavor design sits several steps downstream.
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A University of Osaka group pumped a light-chain protein through flexible tubing and microchannel grids and watched fibrils appear first at the constrictions, which makes deposition partly a plumbing question.
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A University of Osaka team built a core-shell catalyst that concentrates CO2 right at isolated copper sites, and their own control runs suggest the gain comes from the interface between shell and core rather than from the copper.
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