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2025-01-24

Thank you for your continued support this year as well. The photo for the New Year Card shows the Toki birds at Sado Island. The picture was taken when the 'Sado Conference' was help by Professor Soga last July. Once a common bird in the satoyama (village-vicinity mountain area) of Japan, it had faced extinction and become an 'imaginary bird'. Now, on Sado Island, you can see its former appearance.

2024-08-09

We have identified that mature adipocytes function as a strong promoter of breast cancer invasion, highlighting the molecular mechanisms underlying why obesity is a risk factor for breast cancers. Our research has been published in Scientific Reports.

»Article

2023-06-02

I had a chance to visit Dr. Takeuchi, a professor of Ehime University Department of Developmental Biology and Functional Genomic and my university clasmate, and presented about our research at the seminar.

»Ehime University Department of Developmental Biology and Functional Genomic

2023-05-20

"Adipocytes promote cancer stem cell properties and metastatic progression of breast cancer cells through adipsin" was awarded the Excellent Poster of the 20th Stem Cell Symposium. Congratulations, Dr. Behnoush.

2022-11-11

"Suppression of the colorectal cancer stem cell phenotype by the induction of terminal differentiation" was awarded the Excellent Presentation of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis.We highly appreciate the members of the selection committee.

»The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis

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2022-03-08

We have identified that miRNAs upregulated in the terminally differentiated cells in the human colon epithelium cooperatively suppress BMI1, a key regulator of self-renewal in stem cells. Our findings reinforce the concept that identification of terminal differentiation pathways can guide the discovery of stem-suppressor and tumor -suppressor pathways. This research is performed in collaboration with the researchers in Stanford, Columbia, UCSD, Kyoto and Kobe Universities, and published in Journal of Gastroenterology.

»Article

2021-10-15

Dr. Andrei (Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, France, and Gunma University) and Dr.Romanas (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Gunma University) kindly visited us and discussed our collaborative research on cancer stem cells.

2021-08-23

We have identified that adipokine adipsin dependent secretion of HGF mediates the adipocyte-cancer stem cell interactions.

»Article

2021-06-23

Dr. Ishihara and colleagues published 'Local states of chromatin compaction at transcription start sites control transcription levels.' in Nucleic Acids Research.

»Article

2021-06-28

These handmade lapel pins are Father’s Day gifts.

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