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The groups of Professor Naoki TAKAYA from Tsukuba University and Ass. Professor Tatsuo KANEKO from JAIST have engineered the shikimate pathway in E. coli to overproduce 4-aminocinnamic acid which can be photopolymerized to a heat-stable polyimine. To this end, a gene coding for the production of 4-amino phenylpyruvic acid from chorismic acid (papABC), occuring in […]
Sou NAKAMURA et asl., Cell Stem Cell doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.01.011
The group of Akira ENDO has developed a method for the inexpensive synthesis of cerium oxide adsorbent with a large surface area. It absorbs twice as much CO2 compared to zeolithe and 4 times as much compared to activated carbon. JST news release, February 13, 2014
The new variety (Nana Haruka) was tested in Morioka and Kagoshima over several years leading to good productivity of erucic-acid-free rapeseed cooking oil. NARO press release, February 13, 2014
Brand name is „StemFit“. Ajinomoto press release, February 13, 2014
The silk material was generated by transgenic silkworms that spins silk protein containing the fibroin L-chain linked with the single-chain variable fragment (scFv) as a fusion protein. Kojima KATSURA et al, Nature doi:10.1038/srep04080
By applying ultrasonic waves (intermittent ultrasound of 40kHz) to tomato and rice seedlings, it was possible to suppress tomato wilt and rice blast. The method is now being tested fort the protection of strawberries (powdery mildew) and other plant diseases NARO news release, February 12, 2014
The chemistry is based on non-agonistic dectin-1 ligands and leads to a powerful vaccine adjuvant against infectious diseases such as influenza. JST news release, February 12, 2013
The silk is produced by transgenic silkworms with embedded jellyfish or coral GFP-like genes. By processing the silk at low-temperature, luminescent material remains in the silk and provides fluorescence, e. g., on LED illumination. The manufacturing process has been cleared according to the Carthagena protocol and is said tob e implemented in summer 2014. China […]
The ERATO project team around Professor Takao SOMEJIMA at Tokyo University Institute of Engineeering Science and colleagues have developed disposable diapers which can measure moisture and temperature but are built to integrate also other parameters of diagnostic significance. JST news release, February 11, 2014