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18-9 Japan permits marketing of genome-edited fish
In the red sea bream, 14 bases of the myostatin gene suppressing muscle hyperplasia were deleted, using CRISPR/Cas technology. The average amount of the edible portion was increased about 1.2 times, and the ratio of weight gain to ingested feed improved by 14%. Since...
16-9 NEC plans to grow healthcare and life science business to a value of 500 billion JP¥ in 2020
According to Mr Seiko Kitase, CEO of NEC, the focus of NEC’s related plans are Medical care business, e. g. analysis of image data by AI,Lifestyle support business, e. g. walking analysis of seniors (gait analysis),Life science business, such as AI-supported drug...
14-9 MHLW will establish a „Genome Medical Support Center Japan“
The center (tentative name) will be an organization under the national government. In a whole genome analysis execution plan for cancer and intractable diseases, patient samples will be provided by cooperating medical institutions, and the samples and clinical...
16-9 Cultured meat industry will submit proposals on safety standards and IP
A Cell Farming Study Group was established in January 2020 by Tama University as a forum for experts to discuss food production using cell culture. More than 70 organizations are participating, including domestic and foreign companies engaged in cultured meat...
12-9 Moonshot program for human well-being
In the attached article published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie| 69 | September 2021 | p. 55 – 57 (in English), a brief summary of the program and some current highlights are provided (see downloads). Moonshot-program-Japan-092021Download
7-9 Ministry of Agriculture inks major programs on biotech
Within its biotech-related 74 billion Yen (about 570 million €) budget for FY2022, the ministry aims to strengthen production capacity and improve sustainability of the domestic agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries. Topics include: low-temperature storage...
27-8 Secure storage of genome analysis data by quantum cryptography
Toshiba and others explore a system to store personal genetic data from projects of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) using a combination of quantum cryptography communication technology and secret distribution technology. The consortium has...
27-8 Grillus, a startup on edible crickets for human nutrition
Grillus is a startup from the University of Tokushima that produces edible crickets and sells cricket-derived as „circular food“. Basic technology consists of mass production of a highly uniform albino strain of the Dipterocarpus cricket, which has been maintained at...
26-8 Japanese consortium achieves solar hydrogen production on 100 m2 scale
A consortium of ARPChem, Fujifilm, TOTO, Mitsubishi Chemicals and the University of Tokyo, supported by NEDO, has installed and operated, since August 2019, a demonstrator for photocatalytic water splitting and succeeded in separating and recovering high-purity „solar...
16-8 Promising ventures in Japan: The University Venture Award 2021
Japan’s Science and Technology Agency JST and NEDO, project house of the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, offer an annual award to startups, financially supported by companies. The 2021 prize was awarded to Heartseed Co. https://heartseed.jp Heartseed, a...