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The world’s first three-generation birth cohort survey with pedigree infomation carried out at the Tohoku Medical and Mega Bank program has resulted in the registration of over 73,000 people. Pregnant women occupy a large proportion among all pregnant women in Miyagi prefecture. Moreover, the number of trios (three children and parents) was > 10,000, forming […]
Takara will construct a new facility at its head offices in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture. In the new facility, the production volume of the vector increases from the conventional 50 L scale to a 2000 L scale. It will allow the manufacture of retroviruses, lentiviruses, herpes viruses, adenoviruses, adeno-associated viruses, and Sendai viruses. In addition, the […]
In a collaborative research with Hideki HAYASHI, Chiba University, Toshiba Digital Solutions researchers found that the diagnosis of metastatic lymph nodes in images of tissues, after AI analysis, led to a quality of diagnosis equal or higher than by pathologists. Toshiba Analytics’ SATLYS ™” system used in these experiments provides highly accurate identification, prediction, factor […]