The “2021-22 China-Japan High-Level Researchers Exchange Meeting (Decarbonization and Growth),” jointly organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Tsinghua University, took place on September 21 in Beijing. Nearly 30 researchers and business representatives from China and Japan participated in the activity, which focused on “virtually […]

NEDO has adopted five projects to identify new technologies to achieve the Moonshot Goal 4 “Achieve sustainable resource recycling for global environmental regeneration by 2050”. The five adopted projects will determine the potential of technology to efficiently capture and absorb CO2 by artificially accelerating the natural carbon dioxide absorption capacity (artificial acceleration of natural processes). […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/report/16/011900001/22/09/21/00447/ “Wastewater Surveillance” is an epidemiological survey method that measures nucleic acids of pathogenic microorganisms, including viruses, in sewage to determine the occurrence and prevalence of various diseases. Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Regional Institutes of Health have conducting polio environmental water surveillance since  2013 to monitor the spread of poliovirus, and […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/09/21/09955/ Sekisui Chemical plans to commercialize a technology that uses microorganisms to convert combustible garbage into ethanol by 2025. In April 2022, a 1/10th demonstration plant in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, began operating, marking the start of the final stage of verification testing toward practical application. About 800 l ethanol are produced from 20 t of […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/09/20/09950/ Ecologgie https://ecologgie.com/en/ produces food ingredients using edible crickets and have started to commercialize a chocolate containing cricket powder. The company will begin offering the product via crowdfunding and aims to sell it at retail stores in the future. The company has contracted with Cambodian farmers to buy locally produced crickets and process them into powder and […]

https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101572.html In collaboration with the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NEDO has jointly engaged in a “moonshot-type R&D project for directly capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere on the scale of several kilograms per day. It is planned to design a pilot-scale direct air capture (DAC) test apparatus and evaluate […]

https://cureapp-en.blogspot.com/2022/05/worlds-first-medical-device-regulatory.html https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/09/03/09888/ On September 1, 2022, CureApp launched the “CureApp HT Hypertension Treatment Assistance App”, an application to assist in the treatment of hypertension. The six-month program is priced at 2,910 yen for the first month for patients who pay 30% of the total cost, and 2,490 yen per month for the following five months. In […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/08/29/09868/ The company plans to start clinical trials in 2023 for allogeneic soft bone cell sheets for knee osteoarthritis. CellSeed develops regenerative medical products based on a technology invented by Professor Mitsuo Okano of Tokyo Women’s Medical University that enables cells to be cultured in sheet form. While selling cell culture equipment, the company is […]

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https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/08/24/09846/ https://www.symbiobe.jp https://www.nature.com/articles/s41428-022-00675-3.pdf?proof=t2020-6-29 Symbiobe is a Kyoto University startup commercializing technology for bio refineries based on marine photosynthetic bacteria. Technology is based on the research results of Professor Keiji Numata of the Department of Materials Chemistry, Kyoto University. Using carbon dioxide and atmospheric nitrogen as raw materials, the company plans to develop four businesses: (1) services […]

https://www.toray.com/global/news/details/20220818103248.html Adipic acid is a key material for the production of polyamide 66 (nylon). Unlike petroleum-derived adipic acid, bio adipic acid synthesized by this method does not emit any nitrous oxide (N2O). Toray Industries, with support from NEDO, is developing a highly efficient microbial fermentation process based on metabolically engineered Pseudomonas strain and an energy-saving purification method […]

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https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/08/15/09819/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44211-022-00161-z The system developed by a joint research group from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine uses a synthetic polymer that is photoreactive and inhibits nonspecific adsorption which is coated on a chip, and viral proteins are placed on the chip in the form of spots. The […]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32015-7 https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/08/18/09831/ A Japanese team has found bacteria in the microbiome of Japanese people that may improve obesity and diabetes symptoms in a joint study with Waseda University and others. In a cohort study, Blautia wexlerae was identified as an intestinal bacterium that is less common in obese and type 2 diabetic Japanese and more common […]

https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101562.html The products and the project coordinators are Oil and fat production technology from inedible biomass using yeast, Idemitsu Kosan Co A rose flavor production system using a growth-independent bioprocess and continuous isolation, Takasago International Corp Mass production technology in plants for highly modified proteins, Chiyoda Corporation Production system for useful flavor and fragrance intermediates, […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/07/26/09752/ https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/07/25/09744/ By May 2022, Sanatec Seed https://sanatech-seed.com/en/ plans to sell four types of genome-edited Sicilian Rouge High GABA tomato puree with the following claims: lower blood pressure in people with high blood pressure relieve temporary mental stress caused by work or study help improve sleep quality (depth of sleep and refreshed awakening) maintain skin […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/column/16/021500017/072000249/ TAKEO, a Tokyo-based startup company, develops and sells edible insects and commercializes a wide variety of insects as food ingredients. One of the company’s unique features is its “Domestic Insect Series,”  made from edible insects coming from various parts of Japan and processed using proprietary methods.  The products range from crickets to silkworm chrysalis, […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/report/16/011900001/22/07/15/00407/ Genetically modified foods must undergo a safety review by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare before they can be sold. The Food Safety Commission conducts a safety review to determine the impact of the food on human health. When a genetically modified organism is used as a food for humans, if the foreign […]

Ergothioneine is a rare amino acid used as an antioxidant in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. In 2015, Nagase Sangyo Cobegan development of an environmentally friendly bioproduction process capable of providing a stable supply of inexpensive ergothioneine by microbial fermentation. In 2019, Nagase joined NEDO’s Smart Cell Project to accelerate this program and, using synthetic biology, […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/07/04/09683/ Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) announced on June 30, 2022, that it has completed the analysis of the whole genome information of 50,000 Japanese. The Tohoku Medical Megabank has accumulated health information and biological samples of 150,000 local residents, mainly in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, and ToMMo is currently analyzing them. ToMMo […]

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/column/16/052000031/060900090/ A group led by Takashi Igarashi, president of the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), and Yoshihide Hata, president of Nippon Ham (NIHON HAM), has successfully developed a technology to prevent egg allergy, which is a problem among infants and young children. At present, the research results are from mice (published online […]

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https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/22/06/10/09602/ To construct cultured skin on a flat surface, a collagen solution in which dermal cells are suspended is first gelatinized, and then dermal tissue is cultured on the gel. Then, epidermal cells are seeded on the surface of the cultured dermis to form an epidermal layer. In order to align the flat cultured skin […]

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