Tokyo Tech Bulletin: http://eu.vocuspr.com/Url.aspx?536016x226439x371071

From magnetic particle-based research on the destructive nature thalidomide, to a genetic circuit to control how cells diversify into different functional types, to wireless communication at a billion bits per second, the Tokyo Institute of Technology Bulletin contains information about cutting edge research projects at Tokyo Tech.

Research covered in the February 2012 issue of the Tokyo Tech Bulletin includes:

• Magnetic bead technology for the life sciences including insights into the interaction of thalidomide with proteins.

Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Hiroshi Handa trained as a physician and after a post-doc at MIT decided to pursue basic research instead of practicing medicine. Here he describes his research in a video interview.

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• Genetic circuits: A simple genetic circuit developed at Tokyo Institute of Technology could allow researchers to control how cells diversify into different functional types

http://eu.vocuspr.com/Url.aspx?536016x226437x64418

• Tailoring carbon chain lengths: conversion of two C5 fragments into C8 and C2 on a triruthenium cluster

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• Wireless communication at a billion bits per second

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• Adhesively bonded joints: a solution for impact stress

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Other features of the Tokyo Institute of Technology Bulletin include updates of news and events:

• The Gordon Bell Prize: the 2011 Special Achievement Award

http://eu.vocuspr.com/Url.aspx?536016x226433x213549

• Students excel at creating new biological cells

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• TIER: Tokyo Institute of Technology International Education and Research Program

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