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SciFrontiers is our first series of reports. For scientific knowledge that is strategic, future-facing, or historical in character, sometimes the best method is actually just to hold technical interviews with working scientists. That is to say, the knowledge is "already there" in the community – latently so – and can be drawn out through detailed discussion. Our SciFrontiers series consists of technical reports based on technical interviews with leading scientists in fields of interest to SciSci.
SciFrontiers No. 1
[Mathematics]
Arithmetic Geometry
How did the anabelian school develop at RIMS (Kyoto)? Where is it going?
With TAMAGAWA Akio (玉川 安騎男), MOCHIZUKI Shinichi (望月 新一), HOSHI Yuichiro (星 裕一郎), and Benjamin COLLAS.
Topics: Anabelian geometry (e.g., combinatorial, birational, p-adic), Grothendieck's anabelian conjecture, resolution of non-singularities, inter-universal Teichmüller theory, cyclotomic synchronization, Grothendieck-Teichmüller theory, the section conjecture, etc.
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SciFrontiers No. 2
[Biomedicine]
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
What are the basic and translational imperatives in pluripotency and reprogramming research?
With YAMANAKA Shinya (山中 伸弥), Steven FINKBEINER, Bruce CONKLIN, Benoit BRUNEAU, and TOMODA Kiichiro (友田 紀一郎).
Topics: Reprogramming efficiency enhancement, cocktail choice, episomal plasmids, reproducible differentiation, GMP-grade production, the Waddington landscape, transdifferentiation, translation-initiation factors, CiRA/Gladstone, etc.
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SciSci is a science think-tank that follows and analyzes current developments in scientific research. It was founded in 2025 by James Douglas Boyd, who is the former Co-Founder and CEO of the Wolfram Institute. SciSci covers research across disciplines. Its coverage is global, but it places a focus on the US and Japan.
SciSci launched with its SciFrontiers Series. In addition to new SciFrontiers reports, new series, including those offering code repositories and original research studies, will be on offer later in 2025.
