Mar 28, 2018
According to LEE Jong-ho, president of the Taiwan Biological Industry Development Organization, Taiwan now has 111 listed bio ventures (including medical equipment). Most of them develop pharmaceutical products, and seven out of these 111 companies have a market...
Mar 28, 2018
An investigation committee of Kyoto University found Assistant Professor YAMAMIZU Kohei of CiRA guilty of scientific fraud (forgery of 11 main figures in an article) and dismissed him from his position. CiRA’s head, Professor Shinya YAMANAKA, being the direct...
Mar 27, 2018
In Japan about 1 in 20 people over 40 years suffer from glaucoma – the number one cause of blindness. In order to study human retinal ganglion cells, a team around Masayo TAKAHASHI of RIKEN Kobe Institute and Toru NAKAZAWA of Tohoku University Medical School...
Mar 19, 2018
Daiichi Sankyo has signed a contract with Hitachi Chemical to manufacture investigational cell products derived from iPS or somatic cells at Hitachi Kazei’s Yamazaki Plant in Yokohama. Hitachi Chemical formed in May 2017 in the US a a wholly-owned subsidiary, Hitachi...
Mar 18, 2018
NEDO, KDDI, Teradrone and SECOM, utilizing a 4 G LTE standard, conducted security experiments on multiple autonomously flying drones in Kanagawa Prefecture and succeeded in remote patrol security. By remote monitoring of camera images installed in the drones from the...
