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RIKEN researchers elucidate new clues for immunosuppression mechanisms influenced by the intestinal community which trigger autoimmune diseases

Apr 27, 2012

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...

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

Apr 27, 2012

Ezose Co. press release, March 23, 2012

Morishita Jintan manufactures and sells in China Salacia reticulata plant extracts which help to control weight

Apr 26, 2012

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

Apr 24, 2012

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

Apr 24, 2012

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...