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Cyberdyne, developer of the HAL robot suit, and Keio University have initiated a study to combine rehabilitation of spinal cord-injured patients by combined use of iPS cell-derived neural stem cell transplantation and use of HAL robot suit. Cyberdyne news release, April 118, 2016
In the procedure, developed at RIKKEN’s SPring8 radiation facilities, microcrystals of proteins are mixed into hyaluronic acid as a hydrogel transport medium, and 20.000 to 30.000 high-resolution diffraction patterns are obtained by femtosecond laser irradiation from which the protein structures can be calculated at about 2 A resolution or better. The procedure is expected to […]
The society HQ is located in Kyoto, and its president is Taku YAMAMOTO of Hiroshima University. https://jsgedit.jp
The sequencing service on gene mutations in cancer tissue of cancer patients was started in April 2015 with Kyoto University Hospital and later expanded to Okayama and Hokkaido University Hospital. By the end of 2016, two more university hospitals will follow. Sequencing is done in the USA, and MKI carries out IT analysis of the […]