Morinaga’s Aloe Sterol Drink Yogurt may be labelled by “keeping skin moisture”. The functional components are aloe-derived rophenol and cycloalananol. Results of clinical trials that confirmed the function of “keeping moisture on the skin” were announced in a paper of June 2016 (Skin Pharmacol Physiol 2016, 29: 309-317). Morinaga Milk news release, June 29, 2018
RIKEN’s supercomputer “Kyo” achieves world’s highest level in graph analysis
In the international performance ranking Graph 500, Kyo won the first place for the seventh consecutive term. Large-scale graph analysis is important in the analysis of big data requiring large-scale and complicated data processing. RIKEN news release, June 29, 2018
Cira’s Makoto IKEYA receives Gottfried Wagener Award 2018 by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tokyo
The prize, created in 2008 by a number of technology-oriented German companies and the AHK Tokyo, was awarded for Ikeya’s work on “Research on drug discovery for progressive ossification fibrosis dysplasia (FOP) utilizing disease-specific iPS cells”. CiRA news release, June 29, 2018