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The device (Aerobo marker) is an auxiliary system for civil engineering sites aiming at the reduction of surveying and data post-processing man-hours at construction sites. A GPS-equipped marker which communicates with cameras and drones sends continuously precise images of a construction to the 3D construction model, improving productivity and reducing workhours. The „i-construction“ system was […]
After a late start, Japan has now about 2,200 wind turbines with a cumulated capacity of 3,33 GW (Germany end of 2015: 28,200 wind turbines with about 50 GW total capacity). NEDO news release, June 29, 2017
11 medical institutions, mainly in Tokyo, were ordered to stop cord-blood therapy of cancer or aging because they had not requested permission from the designated MHLW committee. The cord blood was obtained from undisclosed cell-processing facilities and no provision plans were submitted. Nikkei Biotech news release, June 29, 2017
At the conference which took part in Senri Life Science Center Osaka from June 28, it was disclosed that the Society now numbers over 270 members, including 19 member companies such as Astellas, Takeda, Japan Ham, Monsanto and Lonza. Nikkei Biotech news release, June 29, 2017
Photoelectron spectroscopy can analyze various substances at the atomic level and is widely used in the study of electrode catalysts in fuel cell development. Up to know, this had to be done under vacuum making observation of the actual operation environment of the electrode catalyst impossible. By using hard x-ray waves generated by synchrotron radiation […]
The target is to reduce cost as much as to increase PV power generation in Japan in 2020 by 10 % or more. Major issues relate to industrialize double-sided power generation solar cell modules, and to reduce BOS costs (balance of system, the initial introduction cost of power generation system excluding solar cells but including […]
The focus was on clinical research on reginal pigment epithelial cell regeneration from skin cells as pioneered by Masayo TAKAHASHI’s group, in cooperation with Kyoto University’s CiRA. Prime Minister Abe said he hopes that Japan will lead the world in the fields of regenerative medicine and drug discovery. RIKEN news release, June 24, 2017
jTAS has developed a portable (4 kg), battery-driven PCR device which permits the analysis of 0.2 fM or less of DNA within 5 – 8 minutes (30 – 40 reaction cycles). The equipment has been used in the analysis of respiratory and urinary tract infections as well as in the detection of pathogenic microorganisms. Kyorin […]
The groups around Atsushi YASUMOTO and Yutaka YATOMI developed a rapid and reliable method to detect platelet clumps in human blood, indicators for potential thrombosis. The method is based optofluidic time-stretch microscopy on a microfluidic chip operating at a high throughput of 10000 blood cells per second. By performing cell classification with machine learning, aggregated […]
ResearchMap is Japan’s largest database which has registered data on some 257,000 researchers in Japan. From June 21, information from Web of Science which covers 18,000 academic journals and 190,000 conference proceedings will be automatically imported to ResearchMap and offer additional information on the targets and performance of Japanese scientists. JST news release, June 21, […]