Jul 31, 2014
In this international demonstration project, NEDO will commission the development of robots which can be used in disaster recovery and humanitarian assistance. Japan builds the program on experiences with the great eastern earthquake in 2011. NEDO news release, July...
Jul 31, 2014
In experiments with synthetic alkane benzene sulfonates (ABS), it was shown that addition of 1 % of surfactin, a biosurfactant isolated from, e. g., Bacillus natto, allowed to reduce the synthetic surfactant by 90 % without loosing overall surfactant activity JST news...
Jul 29, 2014
The group of Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo prepared a PDMS-based hydrogel microchamber in which selected recombinant insect odor receptors were embedded. The micromachined system allowed to detect VOCs by changes in electric potential and was stable for...
Jul 25, 2014
The targets of the new institute will be total healthcare systems (MEMS), stem cell technology and in-vitro clinical testing based on “organs on a chip”. 8 Faculty members of the University of Tokyo will participate in the center. Director is Professor Yasuyuki SAKAI...
Jul 22, 2014
In collaboration with Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Takara Bio studies NK (natural killer) cells induced by RetroNectin for cancer immunotherapy. At the 12th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology, a collaborating group from Mie...
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