The group around Toshiro SATO has succeeded to culture human adult normal colon stem cells into mice and grow them for 10 months or longer. By genome editing techniques, GFP was introduced into the human stem cells before transplantation. As a result, their growth in...
The hair shaft contains minerals and proteins, lipids, hormones, melanin pigments, etc. It has been reported that ingredients contained in hair change with the onset of diseases. Thus, there is a tendency that the concentration of iodine in the hair of cancer patients...
Megakaryon was founded in 2011 aiming at the clinical application of platelets produced by megakaryocytes derived from human iPS cells. It owns intellectual property of immortalizing and storing frozen megakaryocytes derived from human iPS cells. In August 2017, the...
The group around Yuichi TANIGUCHI at RIKEN has developed a method to observe individual E. coli cells. Using electron beam technology, a capsule-like pattern of dips 4 × 0.6 × 0.5 μm size was drawn on a photoresist coat on the surface of a silicon wafer, and this...
Under a NEDO contract, the company improved the CIS light absorbing layer and surface treatment of light absorption. CIS solar cell use copper, indium, selenium, etc. as a light absorbing layer and have a structure in which a transparent conductive film/buffer...