The consortium, centered at Tohoku University in Sendai after the Great Northeast Earthquake and aiming to connect doctors, hospitals and research centers in the disaster-struck area, has announced that 6 months after registration of a cohort of regional residents,...
Supported by NEDO, the company has set up a prototype production facility („Prototyping Studio“) for fibroin materials which can be processed into fibers, films, gels, sponges, powders and nanofibers. For 2015, an annual production of 10 to is targeted. NEDO press...
The consortium led by RIKEN’s Life Science Technology Center and involving researchers from several universities found that a HCV-coded protein is cut by NS3 protease to induce a Smad activation signal which leads to the expression of TGF-ß and collagen, leading to...
A team led by the Chiba Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry Research Center sequenced the genome of the „Lettice“ variety containing about 700 million bp. The wild strawberry genome contains 200 million bp. Wild strawberries are diploid or tetraploid, whereas the...
Among infants born vaginally, several Bifidobacterium strains transmit from the mother and colonize the infant’s intestine shortly after birth. The mother’s intestine is an important source for the vaginal delivered infant’s intestinal microbiota....
