February, 2022 - window-to-japan.eu

2022/02 Nanocarriers may lead to pest-resistant crops without changing the plant genome

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 27. February 20229. July 2022Posted in News of the month

https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/research_news/pr/2022/20220223_1/index.html Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have shown that cell-penetrating peptides (CPP*) can be used to introduce plasmid DNA into plants by spraying. Depending on the DNA carried by the plasmid, the researchers showed that they could express foreign proteins in the plant, introduce interfering RNA which silences specific […]

Plants can be transfected by spraying, using DNA and cell-permeable peptide

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 25. February 202227. April 2022Posted in News

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c07723

Japan starts 1 billion € program on “green power” semiconductors and data centers

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 25. February 20226. July 2022Posted in Environmental solutions, News

https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101513.html

Hydrogen generation from electrolysis: enhancing catalyst lifetime by Co2MnO4

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 21. February 20226. July 2022Posted in Environmental solutions, News

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-021-00732-9

Cellular medicine for fecal incontinence: Austrian Innovacell Biotechnologie venture starts phase III clinical studies in Japan

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 21. February 202227. April 2022Posted in News

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/column/16/021500017/022100228/

CO2 to plastic raw materials – Japan starts 10 years program

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 18. February 20226. July 2022Posted in Environmental solutions, News

https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101517.html

Antibody-covered masks allow for real-time detection of Corona infection

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 10. February 202227. April 2022Posted in News

https://www.jst.go.jp/pr/announce/20220210-2/index.html

Corona monitoring from sewage: Shionogi and Shimadzu’s joint venture AdvanSentinel

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 9. February 202227. April 2022Posted in News

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/02/08/09139/

Shimazu and Shionogi establish Advan Sentinel, a joint venture for sewage monitoring of COVID

By schmid_wordpressPosted on 9. February 20226. July 2022Posted in News

The company Advan Sentinel in Osaka will provide sewage monitoring-related services to the national and local governments, companies, etc., aiming for sales of 1 billion JP¥ (~7.6 million €) in the next 2-3 years. Shimadzu has developed a „PoP-CoV“ sampler which is installed in manholes for continuous collection over 1 or 2 days. The sample […]

Month: February 2022