The Tokyo-based company, newly formed by former employees of Illumina Japan, will use next-generation sequencing technology to analyze the vaginal and intra-uterine flora, e. g., in the context of in-vitro fertilization. https://varinos.strikingly.com Nikkei Biotech news release, July 31, 2017
Tsukuba Team creates blue chrysanthemums by anthocyanin B-ring hydroxylation and glucosylation
The group of Nanobu NODA at NARO’s Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science in Tsukuba succeeded to generate chrysantemums of a natural blue color when they overexpressed the Canterbury bell gene encoding flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase (F3′5′H), the key enzyme for delphinidin biosynthesis, and a gene encoding for UDP–glucose:anthocyanin 3′,5′-O-glucosyltransferase from butterfly pea. As shown earlier by […]
Rohto Pharmaceutical starts clinical trial of decompensated liver cirrhosis by fat-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADR-1)
The phase I/II clinical trial on 15 patients with moderate liver cirrhosis will be supervised by Professor Terui TERAI of Niigata University School of Medicine. For the treatment of liver cirrhosis, lysis of excessive extracellular matrix causing fibrosis, proliferation of hepatocytes, activation of hepatic progenitor cells, suppression of inflammatory response, etc. are effective, and such […]
Wird Wasserstoff der Energieträger der Zukunft? Japanisches Konsortium beginnt Demonstrationsprojekt für eine internationale Wasserstoff-Lieferkette
Wird Wasserstoff der Energieträger der Zukunft? Japanisches Konsortium beginnt Demonstrationsprojekt für eine internationale Wasserstoff-Lieferkette Ein Konsortium der Chiyoda Corp. mit Mitsubishi, Mitsui und der NYK Line, hat mit einem Demonstrationsprojekt zur marinen Versorgung Japans mit Wasserstoff begonnen. Grundlage dafür ist der bei Chiyoda entwickelte SPERA-Prozeß*, bei dem Methylcyclohexan als Wasserstoff-Träger eingesetzt wird. 2019 soll in […]
Die digitale Haut verstärkt den Trend zum “Quantified self” Xenoma Co., eine Ausgründung der Universität Tokio, bringt e-skin auf den Markt
Die künstliche Haut besteht aus einem Textil, das mit 14 ultradünnen Dehnungssensoren ausgerüstet ist. Sie sind über gedruckte Leiterbahnen aus in Kautschuk eingebetteten Silber-Nanopartikel geschaltet. Der Aufbau der einzelnen Module und der Einbau weiterer Sensoren für pH, Temperatur oder Druck wird auf der Webseite des Projekts geschildert, https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/someya/en/research_results/index.html. Die e-skin hält eine Reinigung in Waschmaschinen […]
University team engineers „bionic humanoid“ for training in microsurgery
The JST-funded program strives to build a robot modeled on human anatomy. It is equipped with sensors which provide feedback, e. g., on being pressed, and with realistic models of organs. A major objective is to use the humanoid for medical training, e. g., in „supermicrosurgery“. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDUq8M9uhN0 Nikkei Digital Health, July 27, 2017
Takeda licenses ovarian cancer drug Niraparib from US TESARO
The poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor (MK – 4827) is marketed in the US by TESARO Inc. as an oral drug for ovarian cancer maintenance therapy which can be administered independent of BRCA status of the patient. The agreement includes the development of niraparib for the treatment of all tumor types in Japan, and all […]
NEDO starts program to reduce cost of wind power by 40 % in 2020
Members of the consortium are Yoshidado Co., Japan Ocean Drilling Co., Japan Marine United Co., Hitachi Zosen Corp., Kyoto University, Toyo Construction Co., TEPCO Holdings Co., Oobayashi Corp., TEPCO Design Co., Hitachi, Ltd., University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, Maeda Construction Industry Co., Glocal Corp., Koga Construction Co., Power Development Co., Maritime / Harbor / Aeronautical […]
Japanese consortium to start international hydrogen supply chain from Brunei in 2020
Under a NEDO contract, a consortium of Chiyoda Co., Mitsubishi Co., Mitsui & Co., and NYK Line Corporation, in collaboration with Brunei Darussalam, will pioneer the world’s first maritime hydrogen supply chain. By 2019, a hydrogenation plant will be completed in Brunei, and a dehydrogenation plant in Kawasaki. From 2020, methylcyclohexane, a liquid hydrogen carrier […]
J-PARC Center resolves structure of orthosilicic acid, the extremely unstable basic structural element of glass and silicone
As orthosilicic acid, a basic element of glass, silicones and zeolites, is unstable in water and can not be isolated, it was synthesized in an amide solvent using a palladium/carbon catalyst for hydrocracking from a silicon compounds having 4 benzyloxy groups, obtaining orthosilicic acid at 96% yield. Orthosilicic acid was very stably in the absence […]