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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
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
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