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), researchers have built DNA origamis of increasing complexity. The approach could find applications in fields such as chemical synthesis and drug delivery.
Dozens of research teams at RIKEN’s network of basic research laboratories will be closed down early next year.Thousands of researchers and university staff members in Japan are at risk of losing their jobs next year because of apparent loopholes in employment laws implemented a decade ago., and say the cuts would have a devastating effect on research capacity.
The laws, introduced in 2013 and 2014, were designed to give researchers on fixed-term contracts some long-term job security, by putting a ten-year time limit on such agreements. After that time, employees have the right, in principle, to request a permanent position. Next April marks a decade since the first of the rules came in.
There are roughly 3,100 researchers on fixed‑term contracts at dozens of national universities and research centres who will have been employed for 10 years by the end of March, according to Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Some of those people might be made permanent employees, but many will lose their jobs, say researchers.
They warn that if the potential job losses go ahead, the effect could be devastating for Japanese science. Enrolment in doctoral programmes has been declining since 2003.
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