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According to changes enforced on April 1, 2013, workers employed for 5 years or longer must receive unlimited labor contracts. This also relates to the employment of researchers in academia Nikkei Biotech, June 27, 2013
Gut bacterial metabolites of cholic acid such as deoxycholic acid have been shown to provoke the secretion of inflammatory and tumor-promoting factors in the livers of obese mice Shin YOSHIMOTO et al., Nature June 27, 2013, doi:10.1038/nature12347
Dr Takeshi IMAI and others at RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe have developed a fructose-based solution which rendered mouse embryos and brains transparent within 3 days, permitting observations of fine structures and flurescent labeling under a flurescence microscope without making sections Meng-Tsen KE et al., Nature Neuroscience 2013,doi: 10.1038/nn.3447