{"id":979,"date":"2026-02-03T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/?p=979"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:42:23","slug":"review-paper-published-in-molecules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/2026\/02\/03\/review-paper-published-in-molecules-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective Paper Published in Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/02\/\u56f31.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-980 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/02\/\u56f31.jpg 848w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/02\/\u56f31-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/02\/\u56f31-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/02\/\u56f31-660x360.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>A Perspective paper co-authored by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach\/omega-nucleic-acid\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach\/omega-nucleic-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Omega Nucleic Acid (\u03a9NA)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach\/omega-nucleic-acid\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach\/omega-nucleic-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Discussion Group<\/a>, established last year with Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanoeng.net\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nanoeng.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Shogo Hamada<\/a> (Institute of Science Tokyo), Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/labhp\/bioanal3\/m_murayama-e.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/labhp\/bioanal3\/m_murayama-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Keiji Murayama<\/a> (Nagoya University), Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/researchmap.jp\/yusuketakezawa?lang=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/researchmap.jp\/yusuketakezawa?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Yusuke Takezawa<\/a> (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/researchmap.jp\/ryojun_toyoda\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/researchmap.jp\/ryojun_toyoda\">Ryojun Toyoda<\/a> (Tohoku University), and Aki, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/molecules31030523\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/molecules31030523\">published<\/a> in Molecules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omega Nucleic Acids (\u03a9NA), Ultimate Nucleic Acids for Future Technology<br>Shogo Hamada,* Keiji Murayama, Yusuke Takezawa, Ryojun Toyoda, Akinori Kuzuya*<br><em>Molecules<\/em> <strong>2026<\/strong>, <em>31 (3)<\/em>, 523. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/molecules31030523\">10.3390\/molecules31030523<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We proposed a concept for developing the ultimate nucleic acid = Omega Nucleic Acid (\u03a9NA), suitable for use in extreme environments such as living organisms and outer space. The photo shows the \u201cultimate nucleic acid\u201d conceived by Google Gemini (not used in the paper).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Perspective paper co-authored by members of the Omega Nucleic Acid (\u03a9NA) Discussion Group, established last year with Dr. Shogo Hamada (Institute of Science Tokyo), Dr. Keiji Murayama (Nagoya University), Prof. Yusuke Takezawa (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Dr. Ryojun Toyoda (Tohoku University), and Aki, has been published in Molecules. Omega Nucleic Acids (\u03a9NA), Ultimate Nucleic\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/2026\/02\/03\/review-paper-published-in-molecules-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/mol-mach2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}