Papers of the Month Aug 2018

• New on-site analysis technique for precious metals in wastewater

  Hiroshi Hasegawa (Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Science and Engineering), et al.

  "On-site analysis of gold, palladium, or platinum in acidic aqueous matrix using liquid electrode plasma-optical emission spectrometry combined with ion-selective preconcentration"

  Sens. Actuator B-Chem.

• Mechanism for protein disaggregation in bacteria solved by high-speed AFM

  Toshio Ando (WPI Nano Life Science Institute), et al.

  "Dynamic structural states of ClpB involved in its disaggregation function"

  Nat. Commun.

Papers of the Month Jul 2018

• Precise measurement of single molecular vibrations

  Norio Okabayashi (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Science and Engineering), et al.

  "Vibrations of a molecule in an external force field"

  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.

• Novel damage-free procedures to process diamond

  Norio Tokuda (Faculty of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering), et al.

  "Anisotropic diamond etching through thermochemical reaction between Ni and diamond in high-temperature water vapour"

  Sci. Rep.

• Prevention of diet-induced leukemogenesis by control of stem cell self-renewal

  Yuko Tadokoro (Cancer Research Institute), Atsushi Hirao (Cancer Research Institute), et al.

  "Spred1 Safeguards Hematopoietic Homeostasis against Diet-Induced Systemic Stress"

  Cell Stem Cell

Papers of the Month Jun 2018

• Model for dark matter stability and neutrino mass generation

  Daijiro Suematsu (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Science and Engineering)

  "Dark matter stability and one-loop neutrino mass generation based on Peccei–Quinn symmetry"

  Eur. Phys. J. C

• Lung metastasis promotion by two types of macrophages

  Takuto Nosaka (Cancer Research Institute), Naofumi Mukaida (Cancer Research Institute), et al.

  "Alveolar macrophages drive hepatocellular carcinoma lung metastasis by generating leukotriene B4"

  J. Immunol.

• Technique to simulate extreme weather events

  Kenji Taniguchi (Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering)

  "A Simple Ensemble Simulation Technique for Assessment of Future Variations in Specific High-Impact Weather Events"

  J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos.