Day: 10. July 2023

Hyperion FoodTech establishes bovine ES cells for application to cultured meat

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/23/07/05/10883/ Hyperion FoodTech (Nara City, President Kazuhiro Takekita), a company involved in the research and development of new food materials such as cultured meat, announced the establishment of pluripotent stem cells (ES cells) from fertilized embryos from domestic cattle. Bovine ES cells will be differentiated into bovine skeletal muscle cells, which will be used to […]

Spraying of yeast esterase accelerates degradation of biodegradable mulch films

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/23/07/05/10885/ Biodegradable mulch film has been commercially available for about 20 years. Hiroko Kitamoto and her team from theNational Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences had discovered that Pseudozyma Antarctica which is ubiquitous on plant surfaces, break down biodegradable plastics by a secreted esterase PaE . This degrading enzyme, PaE, was known to degrade polybutylene succinate adipate […]

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