Noevir Co. starts to market DHA and EPA health food supplement
Noevir Co., a cosmetics company, starts selling a DHA/EPA health food supplement directed towards control of lifestyle diseases. Noevir press release, June 26, 2013
Joint Japanese-Chinese research group develops trinuclear titanium polyhydride complex for dinitrogen cleavage at ambient temperature and pressure
The results are coauthored by scientists from RIKEN’s Center for Sustainable Resource Science and the State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University, China. Science June 28, 2013, DOI: 10.1126/science.1238663
Tokyo Institute of Technology researchers identify linolenic acid as main source of acrolein, causative agent for „oil drunkenness“
The study was jointly done with Tsuno Food Industrial Co. Yasuhi ENDO et al., JAOCS July 2013, DOI 10.1007/s11746-013-2242-z
Stocks of PeptiDream Co. plunge 41 % within two days upon cancellation of an Upjohn contract
PeptiDream is a startup company with a focus on innovative peptide therapeutics, https://www.peptidream.com/en/ Nikkei Biotech, June 28, 2013
MHLW gives green light for clinical research on iPS studies to treat age-related macular degeneration
The studies will be done by Masayo TAKAHASHI of RIKEN’s Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe. Age-related macular degeneration concerns up to 700.000 elderly Japanese. It is planned to create autologous iPS cells using skin cells taken from a patient, and then induce retinal pigment epithelium cells, or RPE cells, from each patient’s iPS cells. […]