Mar 30, 2017
The allogenic cells were selected from a same donor type stocked at the iPS cell bank of CiRA, expanded at RIKEN’s CDB, and transplanted at Kobe City Medical Center into a 60-year-old male’s right eye. The patient suffers from age-related macular degeneration in the...
Mar 29, 2017
The center will be a base for promoting medical applications of artificial intelligence (AI), such as diagnosis based on radiographic images, pathological images, vital data and bed control (hospital bed management). Nikkei Biotech news release, March 29,...
Mar 24, 2017
Among the scientific papers included in the Nature Index, the proportion of papers posted from Japan declined by 6% from 2012 to 2016. The number of papers by Japanese authors has decreased by 8.3%. In addition, the contribution of Japan in the same period has...
Mar 24, 2017
Within a NEDO-sponsored consortium, 5 Japanese steelmakers have done experiments in a test blast furnace of 12 m3 using a technology where the amount of coke required for reduction is reduced by substituting hydrogen. Using this technology, CO2 emissions from the...
Mar 24, 2017
Using multiple machine learning methods, the group of Kenichi FUKUI extracted sleep-related environmental sounds with high accuracy, mapping them to a two-dimensional plane according to their characteristics. By associating these sounds with individual sleep patterns...
