Sep 25, 2018
The doctor-initiated study will be conducted with one patient with aplastic anemia with platelet transfusion failure complication. Production of platelets are done from the patient’s (autologous) iPS cells through megakaryocyte cells, a method developed by Hiroyuki...
Sep 25, 2018
Hitachi will establish and demonstrate “cloud-type energy management system (AEMS)” which will avoid power outage and secure electric power quality at factories through countermeasures against instantaneous voltage drop. Partnership is between the Ministry...
Sep 24, 2018
Some of the features are: AMEDs budget may increase by 20 % and include a new program on „brain and mental health“. METI plans for a big-budget „Medical Device and System R & D Project to Realize Future Medical Care“. In response to the microplastic problem, the...
Sep 21, 2018
The groups around Takashi SAKITA and Miyako TAKASHIMA have isolated over 1000 yeast strains from Okinawa. Among them, Cystibasidium irimotoense from the soils of Iriomote Island, Okinawa, was shown to metabolize glucose and xylose almost simultaneously and nearly...
Sep 19, 2018
A group at RIKEN has tracked the movement of nine types of fluorescently labeled G protein-coupled receptors (GPLC) in living cultured HEK 293 cells using a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope. It turned out that movement of nine kinds of GPCRs became...