Month: March 2018

Concerning bio-ventures, Taiwan is more aggressive than Japan: interview

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 capitalization of US $ 1 billion. Nearly half of the companies are developing new drugs. There are […]

Daiichi Sankyo signs into custom manufacturing by Hitachi Chemical for investigational cell products in Japan

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 Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC, one of the largest US companies in the field […]

Smart drones in a 4G LTE network as airborne police: Japan

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 operation control room, it was possible to identify suspicious individuals. It was also possible to […]

Kao Co. improves fumaric acid production in Rhizopus sp. by genome editing

A research team led by Kao’s Life Science Research Institute has developed a highly efficient homologous recombination procedure for Rhizopus sp., based on TALEN genomic editing with short-length single-stranded DNA. Using this technology, a pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) gene behind an adh promoter was inserted into the Rhizopus genome, leading to 1,2-fold increase of fumaric acid […]

NEDO team succeeds in autonomous remote monitoring by drones

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 operation control room, it was possible to identify suspicious individuals. It was also possible to […]

Kyoto Prefectural University reports clinical study on corneal endothelial cell transplantation against bullous keratopathy

Bullous keratopathy is a condition where corneal endothelial cells, which do not normally proliferate in vivo, are extensively impaired by trauma, disease, surgery or the like and do not longer maintain the transparency of the cornea, leading to edema and turbidity. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and Doshisha University jointly expanded corneal endothelial cells derived […]

JST to support venture Kyulux Co. for further development of hyperfluorescence materials

Thermally activated delayed Fluorescence Materials (TADEFs) hold promise to further improve OLED-based designs. Kyulux is a Fukuoka-based startup founded by Chihaya ADACHI and has developed a new organic light emitting material that can convert energy of excitons to light with almost 100% efficiency without using rare metals, for low cost and high efficiency light emission, […]

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