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The active ingredient are five types of peptides which target malignant mesothelioma. Phase ib is carried out at the University of Chicago. Oncotherapy news release, January 26, 2016
The sake yeast GSP6 has been shown to enhance firm sleep (more delta waves), increase growth hormone secretion and to reduce sleepiness during wakes. The yeast is available as drink, blended with tomato vinegar, and as pill. Nikkei Biotech news release, January 26, 2016
A group around Shigeyuki KAWANO at the University of Tokyo has carried out whole genome sequencing, transcriptomic analysis and metabolic map construction of Parachlorella kessleri, an algae which can produce starch or oil. From transcriptome and microstructure analysis, autophagy has been implicated as a major for oil accumulation in Chlorella JST news release, January 16, […]
A team around Yasuhiro KAJIHARA of Osaka University has coupled six synthetic glycopeptides with different glycosylation patterns and arrived at five functional and correctly folded EPO glycoforms. Experiments on in vivo erythropoiesis in mice showed that biological activity is different in all glycoforms, providing information about the most important structural features, thus paving the way […]