The group of Sidonia Fagarasan at RIKEN’s Research Center for Allergy and Immunology in Yokohama has published a report on mouse experiments that a shift in intestinal bacterial balance leads to a trigger in immunosuppression receptor PD-1 which may lead to the onset of autoimmune diseases. Science, April 27, 2012
US Ezose Science, a subsidiary of Shionogi Diagnostics, to collaborate with Hirosaki University in glycomics research to find new biomarkers for prostate and urological cancers
Ezose Co. press release, March 23, 2012
Morishita Jintan manufactures and sells in China Salacia reticulata plant extracts which help to control weight
Proof of efficacy was done in Japan with support of Toyama University and MAFF Morishita Jintan press release, April 23, 2012
Hirosaki University: new RNA silencing technology in grafted tomatos, apples leads to transformed plants which are not transgenic
Professor Takeo Harada, https://nature.cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/lab/1/tharada/e/presen.html Nikkei Biotech, April 24, 2012; website Professor HARADA
ANA performs first transpacific flight using cooking oil biofuel; delivery flight of a 787 dreamliner
The 787 flew with biofuel made mainly from used cooking oil and emitted an estimated 30 percent less CO2 emissions when compared to today’s similarly-sized airplanes. Of the reduction in greenhouse gasses, about 10 percent can be attributed to the use of biofuel and approximately 20 percent to the technology and efficiency advancements offered by […]
Japan Health Research Institute founds Onsen Medical Science Research Center, specializing in balneotherapy
Director is Dr Shinya HAYASAKA, a specialist for balneotherapy and antiageing. Collaborative Researchers are Yosikazu Nakamura. Professor, Jichi Medical University, Toshiyuki Ojima, Professor, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Seiji Nishino, Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Yoshinori Otsuka, Professor, Hokkaido University, and Hiroharu Kamioka, Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture. Press release, Onsen Medical Science Research Center, […]
Yamato Systems starts security box service for biological specimen, visualizing storage status etc.
The security box can maintain a temperature suitable for a specimen etc. and is combined with a system which visualizes the condition of use and storage status, the institution which enclosed the specimen, take-outs etc. Yamato Systems press release April 20, 2012
Research team at Science University of Tokyo and Organ Technologies Inc. grows hair from transplanted hair follicle primordium, mouse experiments
A research team at the Science University of Tokyo (Professor Tsuji and others), Showa University, Kitasato University, and Organ Technologies (Chiyoda, Tokyo, President Hiroaki Asai) succeeded in extracting an epithelial stem cell and a papilla-pili cell from the hair follicle of a mouse adult, regeneration a hair-follicle primordium, transplanting this to the skin of a […]
Nikento Honsha and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology develop technology to remove tsunami-borne salt from rice paddies by microalgae
Nikkei Biotech, April 16, 2012
Ajinomoto will provide, through Japanese Olympic Committee, special leucine-containing supplement to Japanese athletes, counteracts muscle fatigue
Ajinomoto press release, April 12, 2012