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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 shake flasks, up to 9g/L ethanol was produced. The strain is believed to be able […]
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 year ended, December 31, 2014 and had 155 employees as […]
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 animals allowed their detection by different types of microscopy and by flow cytometry. Satoshi FUKUYAMA et al., […]