Japan’s rising research stars: Yasuka Toda (original) (raw)
- NATURE INDEX
- 08 March 2023
Toda’s research shows that a love for umami allowed our evolutionary ancestors to start eating plants.
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- Sandy Ong
- Sandy Ong is a freelance writer based in Singapore.
This is the fourth in a Nature Index series of profiles about emerging early-careers researchers in Japan.
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Nature 615, S76-S77 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00663-4
This article is part of Nature Index 2023 Japan, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.
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