#Waseda University

Waseda University and NTU Singapore gave a live cockroach a tiny diving suit that lets it work underwater for up to three hours. A genuine rescue breakthrough wrapped in the least reassuring messenger imaginable.

Over 100 researchers across six Asian countries, led by Japanese institutions including RIKEN and Waseda, have published a 10-year roadmap to build a synthetic cell from scratch. Their two-stage ProtoCell-to-AutoCell plan and AI-driven central biofoundry mark a new approach to a question Europe and the US have chased for 20 years.