Mar 30, 2015
A group around Jun OGAWA isolated a thermophilic yeast, Scheffersomyces shehatae JCM18690, which is thermoresistant and can metabolize starch directly due to a high content of glucoamylase. In addition, it is able to metabolize xylose. After 10 days cultivation in...
Mar 30, 2015
Cellular Dynamics is a leader in the production of iPS-based cells such as cardiomyocytes, hepatocytes etc., used for drug testing and other purposes. CDI was founded in 2004 and listed on NASDAQ in July 2013. The company had global revenues of $16.7 million in the...
Mar 30, 2015
The 10 center team generated influenza viruses expressing fluorescent proteins of different colours (‘Color-flu’ viruses) to facilitate the study of viral infection in in vivo models. On adaptation to mice, stable expression of the fluorescent proteins in infected...
Mar 29, 2015
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has introduced a new high-precision automatic translation system, first for English to Japanese, but with Chinese to Japanese also being included in the future. JSTChina, with the introduction...
Mar 29, 2015
At the JSBBA meeting in Okayama on March 27, a Kaneka researcher reported on the stabilization of this enzyme from Vanderwaltozyme polyspora, for applications in DMF, using protein engineering. JSBBA abstract book, Annual Meeting 2014 in Okayama