Day: 25. August 2017

Under a NEDO contract, the company installed the world’s first submerged floating power generation system off the coast of Kagoshima. During the test, an autonomous control system kept the system floating at depth of about 30 to 50 m in the Kuroshio current, resulting in a maximum of about 30 kW power generation. Practical application […]

80 to 90 % of enzymes derived from animals and plants will become insoluble and inactive when heterologously expressed in microorganisms. With a new software (INTMS Align) which identifies aggregation hotspots based on secondary structure and amino acid hydrophobicity Asano’s group succeeded to predict changes realised via protein engineering which lead to soluble, active enzymes. […]