Sep 22, 2021
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...
Sep 19, 2021
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...
Sep 19, 2021
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...
Sep 19, 2021
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...
Sep 13, 2021
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
Sep 7, 2021
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...
Aug 27, 2021
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...
Aug 27, 2021
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...
Aug 26, 2021
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...
Aug 16, 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...
