May 29, 2015
The test pond with 5 m diameter is located in Kitakyushu and has achived outdoor stability of 307 days in 2014. The program is done under a NEDO project jointly with JGC Co. Nikkei Biotech news release, May 29, 2015
May 26, 2015
Using angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory test as a screening for sulfur-containing metabolites of Asparagus, the group of Kazuki SAITO could identify asparaptine as an active ingredient. RIKEN news release, May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015
The groups of Yoshiki YAMAGUCHI at RIKEN, Peter Seeberger at MPI of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm and TEN Feizi at Imperial College London have discovered that lectin ZG16p present in human intestines binds to phosphatidylinositol mannoside, a surface...
May 18, 2015
The team of Kensaku SAKAMOTO at RIKEN Yokohama has modified an E. coli strain to incorporate phenylalanine modified by bulky residues such as azide or sulfonate. To this end, 178 UAG codons were reassigned to synthetic amino acids by expressing the specific pairs of...
May 15, 2015
The team of Jun KIKUCHI at RIKEN’s NMR center in Yokohama has used 3D solid NMR in a pulsed mode to analyze the composition of Euglena algae. Major polysaccharide components and other useful material such as unsaturated fatty acids could be determined. RIKEN news...
