Background Cookies may be suitable for potluck party. So we decided to make various kinds of cookies, including Japanese flavors like macha and kinako (soy bean flour). We will give them to our friends and find out which cookie is the most…

I'm making experiments here in UCSF and sometimes remember Fujiwara-san, who was a mentor of BIOMOD Team Sendai in 2012 and 2013. He was very strict about not only experiments but also the management of the team (though I liked him a lot!)…

On Saturday Sushmita (a roommate from India) and I made cookies :) As we are both scientists, she called the recipe 'protocol' and the procedure of leaving cookie dough in a fridge for an hour 'incubation' :P We tried staind glass cookies …

First I used Medium as a blog to write about the life in SF and the U.S. But now I found that I was too lazy to continue it because it required pictures or photos every time you made a post. So I decided to move here. I'll use Hatena as a …

Hey today I wonder what are the two abbreviations used in a centrifuge machine. One if RPM, revolution/rotation per minute and the other is RCF, relative centrifugal force. You might have heard the word RPM, and can easily guess what it me…