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• Institute of Science Tokyo Researchers Develop Sustainable, Metal-Free Method for Producing Essential Biaryl Compounds

  Published: Apr 30, 2026

  Section: Research

  Organic chemists have pioneered a transition-metal-free strategy for synthesizing polyfunctionalized biaryls, which are critical building blocks for pharmaceuticals and functional...

• Institute of Science Tokyo Researchers Propose Searching for Extraterrestrial Life Through Multi-Planet Statistical Patterns

  Published: Apr 15, 2026

  Section: Research

  A groundbreaking study suggests shifting the hunt for alien life away from individual biosignatures toward identifying large-scale patterns across entire planetary systems. By mode...

• New scSurv Computational Tool Maps Individual Cell Data to Patient Survival Rates Using Legacy RNA Sequencing

  Published: Mar 24, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed scSurv, an open-source Python package that bridges the gap between single-cell data and clinical outcomes. By deconvolu...

• New scSurv Deep Learning Model Deconvolutes Bulk RNA Data To Map How 10,000 Individual Cells Influence Patient Survival

  Published: Mar 21, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed "scSurv," a computational framework that identifies which individual cells drive disease progression by analyzing widel...

• Subglacial Chemical Reactions Consumed Greenhouse Gases and Prolonged Ancient Snowball Earth Glaciations for Millions of Years

  Published: Mar 10, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have discovered that chemical weathering continued beneath kilometer-thick ice sheets during global glaciations, drawing down atmosphe...