iCeMS FRONTRUNNERS

Smart genetic switches for precision medicine

Epigenetic information can change how a DNA sequence is read without changing the sequence itself...

Precision Tumor Targeting Using Nanoparticles

Health Discovery Defying Conventional Biochemistry

In the world of science, a single discovery sometimes overturns many established notions. One suc...

Integrating Engineering and Biology to Create Artificial Cellular Microenvironments

Bringing drugs and other medical products to the market requires large capital R&D investments an...

Expressing the mysteries of nature in astonishing new ways

The process by which cells proliferate and differentiate, growing from a fertilized egg into an o...

Potential for a New Kind of “Empty Space”

“I urge young researchers to step up, claim a new field, and announce it to the world. Open an un...

新型 “空间”的潜力

"我敦促年轻的研究人员站出来，发现一个新的领域并公诸于世。开辟一个未被探索的研究领域并且吸引其他参...

Pursuing the unelucidated structure of beauty

Our brain contains about 86 billion neurons and more than tenfold this number of glial cells, whi...

Opening up the future of materials science

The products around us, such as clothes, memo paper, and liquid crystal displays are made from ma...

Observing cell function to research the truth

Human cells number around 37.2 trillion. Of these, around 10 billion expire every day. As they di...

Focus on your interests to lead the way

“Animals have so many different shapes. How interesting!” Hasegawa’s boyhood excitement motivates...

Towards ultra-thin wires using mathematical models

A central processing unit (CPU), the brain of a computer, has eight billion transistors arranged ...

“Reversing the brain damage” to treat mental diseases

As Wang talks about the inner working of the brain, her eyes light up. “The human memory is a big...