乳酸菌が作る菌体外多糖による腸内環境改善と肥満抑制 --新世代ポストバイオティクス成分EPSの機能性とシンバイオティクス乳酸菌--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-18. / Fermented foods demonstrate remarkable health benefits owing to probiotic bacteria or microproducts produced via bacterial fermentation. Fermented foods are produced by the fermentative action of several lactic acid bacteria, including Leuconostoc mesenter...
脊髄性筋萎縮症における骨格筋病変の発症メカニズムの一部を解明. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-17. / Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a congenital neuromuscular disease caused by the mutation or deletion of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. Although the primary cause of progressive muscle atrophy in SMA has classically been considered the degeneration of motor neurons, recent studie...
超高層大気分野のデータ駆動型科学を支えるウェブサービス「IUGONET（ユーゴネット）Type-A」 --登録データセット数1200超 すでに180以上の研究成果に貢献--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-07-08. / This paper presents tools that help researchers implement the processes of data-led studies of upper-atmospheric phenomena. These tools were developed as a part of the activities of the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observat...
歴史的観測から蘇る1957～1958年のオーロラ観測の全貌：過去4世紀最大の太陽活動極大期に起きた太陽嵐の痕跡. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-03-28. / Solar Cycle 19 was probably the greatest solar cycle over the last four centuries and significantly disrupted the solar-terrestrial environments with a number of solar eruptions and resultant geomagnetic storms. At its peak, the International Geophysical Year (IGY: ...
高活性・高耐久な世界最薄の白金ナノシート電極触媒を開発 --新奇軸の触媒開発で、FCVなどの飛躍的な普及拡大に期待--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-12. / Increasing the performance of Pt-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is essential for the widespread commercialization of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Here we show the synthesis of double-layer Pt nanosheets with a thickness of 0.5 ...
なぜ免疫系はウイルスを排除して食べ物を排除しないのか？ --予測符号化に基づく免疫記憶のアップデート--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-12. / The immune system discriminates between harmful and harmless antigens based on past experiences; however, the underlying mechanism is largely unknown. From the viewpoint of machine learning, the learning system predicts the observation and updates the prediction based ...
患者由来iPS細胞を用いた筋強直性ジストロフィー骨格筋病態の再現と薬効評価のための定量的な細胞評価系の確立. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-11. / Reproducing skeletal muscle pathology of myotonic dystrophy using patient-derived iPS cells and establishing a new system to quantitatively evaluate drug efficacy. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-11. / Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by expanded CTG repeats (CTGexp) in...
八重山諸島（石垣島と西表島）に生息する日本最大のヤスデであるヤエヤママルヤスデを新種記載. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-01-19. / The taxonomic status of millipedes of the genus Spirobolus Brandt, 1833, referred to as “Yaeyama-maruyasude” from the Yaeyama Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, was unresolved. We assess the taxonomic status of these Yaeyama Spirobolus sp. using an integrated morphological and mo...
トポロジカル量子物質のスピン機能開拓に成功 --電気的スピン生成・計測を室温で実現--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-10-19. / Topological quantum materials (TQMs) possess abundant and attractive spin physics, and a Weyl semimetal is the representative material because of the generation of spin polarization that is available for spin devices due to its Weyl nature. Meanwhile, a Weyl semimetal allows th...
