According to a report in Nikkei Biotech, the Plant Science Center and the Biomass Engineering Research Program, both at RIKEN Yokohama’s Center, might reorganize shortly into a RIKEN Research Center for Environmental Resources which will include a plant immunology research group (a pertinent position has been offered by RIKEN). Nikkei Biotech, Dec. 6, 2012
Japan Tobacco applies for permission to introduce new anti-HIV drug in Japan
The compound is named Elvitegravir (JTK-303) in Japan. Marketing outside Japan has been licensed to Gilead, under the brand name Stribild. The function is based on the inhibition of integrase strand transfer Japan Tobacco press release, Dec. 6, 2012
Team at National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences uses transcriptome data to predict time of rice leaf formation in rice paddies
By transcriptome data from the leaves of rice plants in a paddy field along with the corresponding meteorological data and genomic information, statistical models were developed for endogenous and external influences on gene expression and prediction of rice leave formation Atsushi J Nagano et al., doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.10.048,