General Manager Koji Asahara and his study group of “National Center for Child Health and Development announced that they found the gene which plays a huge role when a tendon becomes developed. A tendon has an important role to join muscle & bone, and then transmit the power of muscle [...]

 On May 13th, 2010, Medical School of Kurume University announced to start the new clinical trial regarding “cancer peptide vaccine therapy” against lung cancer, liver cancer and vaginal cystocele. The school is looking for patients who have ideas to receive this therapy.
 ”Cancer peptide vaccine therapy” of the school is that [...]

 The combined teams of Akita University, Gunma University and Kobe University found out that the specified enzyme within a cell has the mechanism, which inhibits the effects of the toxicity of glutamic acid to wipe out brain cell. The team put up the result on line Nature dated May 12th, [...]

 ”Takara Bio Inc.” begins to provide “the RetroNectin treatment” for profit from May 13th, 2010. The treatment is to administer lymphocyte, which boosts the immune system’s ability to fight cancers to patients with cancers. By using special protein developed by the company, the company incubates the lymphocyte.
 The company has carried [...]

 When Westerners visited Japan during the Edo Period, most of them were surprised that Japanese women had fine skin texture at the time. The secret of their beauties lied in their eating habits. They had eaten Japanese traditional foods, i.e. Rice, “Aozakana”, Miso Soup (Bean Paste Soup) and so on.
 Rice [...]

 The study team of Nagoya University, which Professor Ashikari is the team leader, discovered the gene which increases drastically the number of branching of rice ear. The team succeeded in increasing the number of rice grain per a rice ear of “Nippon-bare”, the name of rice plant, by 52% in [...]

 We advised that Medical School of Kurume University had announced to start the new clinical trial regarding “cancer peptide vaccine therapy” on May 13th, 2010. On May 18th, Expert Committee on Advanced Medical Care in Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry approved the therapy as advanced medical care, provided that it [...]

 On April 30th, 2010, Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital announced the hospital could succeed in the simultaneous surgery of rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and acute gallbladder disease against 98-year-old male patient. According to the hospital, he has been the oldest patient in patients who have had surgery [...]

 Two teams of Tokushima University and Hiroshima University figured out the causal gene of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and its pathogenic mechanism. According to medical professionals, that must contribute to the development of treatment agent which controls the development of disease. On April 28th, 2010, they posted on Nature (on [...]

 On March 29th, 2010, Ryohei Hasegawa, Group Manager of Neuro Technology Study Group, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology at Tsukuba-city in Ibaraki-pref announced to have developed “Neuro Communicator”, which understands what a severely disabled person would like to say by analyzing his brain wave and send [...]