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Transplants of eye cells grown from another's iPS stem cells to begin

Masayo Takahashi of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology speaks at a press conference in Kobe on Feb. 6, 2017. A Japanese research team, led by Takahashi, said it will begin the world's first clinical trials involving transplanting retinal cells grown from iPS stem cells obtained from another person. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Kyushu University Professor Kosuke Morita (C), head of a team of researchers who created the atomic element 113, holds up the name of the element "nihonium" during a press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 1, 2016. An international body approved the team's proposed name for the element, in the first case in which scientists from an Asian country have named an atomic element. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Kyushu University Professor Kosuke Morita (L), head of a team of researchers who created the atomic element 113, holds up the name of the element "nihonium" during a press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 1, 2016. An international body approved the team's proposed name for the element, in the first case in which scientists from an Asian country have named an atomic element. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Kyushu University Professor Kosuke Morita (C), head of a team of researchers who created the atomic element 113, points to the "nihonium" on a periodic table during a press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 1, 2016. An international body approved the team's proposed name for the element, in the first case in which scientists from an Asian country have named an atomic element. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Kyushu University Professor Kosuke Morita (L), head of a team of researchers who created the atomic element 113, holds up the name of the element "nihonium" during a press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 1, 2016. An international body approved the team's proposed name for the element, in the first case in which scientists from an Asian country have named an atomic element. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Kyushu University Professor Kosuke Morita, head of a team of researchers who created the atomic element 113, attends a press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 1, 2016. The team's proposed name for the element "nihonium," with "Nihon" meaning Japan, has been officially approved by an international body, marking the first case in which scientists from an Asian country have named an atomic element. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Kyushu University Professor Kosuke Morita, head of a team of researchers who created the atomic element 113, attends a press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 1, 2016. The team's proposed name for the element "nihonium," with "Nihon" meaning Japan, has been officially approved by an international body, marking the first case in which scientists from an Asian country have named an atomic element. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science

Kyushu University professor Kosuke Morita, head of a team of scientists who discovered element 113, points to the superheavy synthetic element on a periodic table at a press conference at the Riken institute's research center in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on June 9, 2016. They plan to name it "nihonium" as "Nihon" means Japan in Japanese. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science

Kyushu University professor Kosuke Morita, who led a team of scientists in the discovery of element 113, speaks at a press conference at the Riken institute's research center in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on June 9, 2016. Morita voiced hope the addition of what the scientists plan to name "nihonium," with "Nihon" meaning Japan in Japanese, to the periodic table will help nurture young people's interest in science. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science

Kyushu University professor Kosuke Morita (L), head of a team of researchers who discovered element 113, and science minister Hiroshi Hase, point at the superheavy synthetic element on a periodic table at a press conference at the Riken institute's research center in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on June 9, 2016. The scientists plan to name it "nihonium" as "Nihon" means Japan in Japanese. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science

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Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

Atomic element 113 officially named "nihonium"

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science

"Nihonium" discoverers hope for greater interest in science