Sanatec Seeds, a venture spin-out of the Japan’s University of Tsukuba, is the first company in the world to commercialize genome-edited tomatoes, “Sicilian Rouge High GABA” “Sicilian Rouge High GABA” is a strain (variety registration pending)...
AuB, a Tokyo startup whose president Keita Suzuki is a former member of Japan’s national soccer team, has analyzed the stool of over 700 athletes and analyzed the type, number and composition of their intestinal bacteria, combined with information on eating...
The team of Yutaro MORI at RIKEN, in collaboration with Yokohama Rubber and ZEON Co., has developed a technology to produce 1,3-butadiene from glucose by recombinant Escherichia coli. Butadiene is currently produced at 12 million t/y worldwide and over 1 million t/y...