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MBSJ Code of Ethics
Guidelines relating to presentation of research results
November 2024
Fine cracks in the glaze on the surface of ceramics, known as crazing. The delicate crazing, created through the meticulous work of a skilled ceramic artist, resembles epithelial tissue. This piece was inspired by a microscopic image taken by Dr. Fumiko Matsukawa-Usami and Professor Toshihiko Fujimori (National Institute for Basic Biology).
October 2024
Ebisu (the god of fortune) is delighted to have obtained a mouse with a panda pattern through crossbreeding. In Japan, selective breeding of plants and animals became popular during the Edo period, and the method for producing mice with various patterns, including panda patterns, was described in Chin-Gan-Sodate-Gusa (1787). These fancy mice were likely exported to Europe and crossbred, and about 7% of the genome of the C57BL/6J strain is derived from the Japanese mouse subspecies Mus musculus molossinus. This cover illustration was created in reference to the meeting report published in the July 2024 issue of this journal (Abe et al. (2024) Genes Cells 29(7): 525-531, DOI: 10.1111/gtc.13131).
