Month: February 2016

In collaboration with AIST, the company has used the confined system of a plant factory to prepare such preparation in recombinant strawberry plants. The preparation, termed “InterBerry”, is applied as a gingivities-reducing treatment for dogs in animal hospitals and distributed by Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Animal Health Hokusan news release, https://www.hokusan-kk.jp/product/interberry/index.html

The next round of non-clinical tests will be done with healthy volunteers and lidocaine, an analgesic agent. MedRx website news releases

The preparation is a class I collagenase (Col G gene) from Clostridium histolyticum prepared by recombinant E. coli and free of class II collagenase (Col H gene). It can be used to separate mesenchymal stem cells from adipose tissue and for other cell purification tasks. Meiji Seika Pharma news release, February 23, 2016

Since Kagome tomato juiice bears a label claiming “lycopene increases good cholesterol”, sales have tripled, according to a news release by the company. Kagome news release, February 22, 2016

JCR which has developed a “J-BrainCargoR” technology allowing to transport more substances through the blood-brain barrier has concluded a research agreement with Peptidream to use this technology for the transport of special cyclic peptides to the brain. Cyclic peptide libraries offer high diversity for targeting drugs. Peptidream news release, February 22, 2016

A team at Juntendo University School of Medicine has developed a technology to differentiate peripheral blood-derived human iPS cells into neural stem cells with high efficiency. iPS cells derived from about 150 patients are already stocked in liquid nitrogen tanks and this collection shall be expanded to over several thousand cases in the future. The […]

In experiments at Gamagori Municipal Hospital, involving over 400 test aged persons, it was shown that a four weeks daily intake of 35 g chocolate containing 72 % cocoa (630 mg cocoa polyphenols) led to an increase of brain-deerived neurotrophic factor BDNF in blood, indicating stimulation of brain cells. In another set of experiments at […]

The test will be based on a patient’s serum but the targe of the test has not been announced. It will either be based on an immune complex transfer methods based on Sysmex’ HISCL analyzers, or a super-resolution molecular imaging of a fluorescence-labeled target protein. Eisai news release February 16, 2016

The group of Takuro IDEGUCHI developed a to record 24.000 Raman spectra per second based on Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. The method was applied to the analysis of transient mixing dynamics of toluene and benzene in the fingerprint region (200–1500 cm−1) but could also be used for the screening of intracellular materials in stem cells […]

The groups of Koji SODE and Kazunori IKEBUKURO at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology succeeded to functionally express a green light inducible promoter from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 in E. coli. When an antigen43-coding gene was cloned behind this promoter, the recombinant E. coli cells aggregated when illuminated with green light, but not, when red […]