The study team of Hiroshima University succeeded in the remedy of gum disease by using a stem cell was harvested from bone marrow. On March 18th, 2010, the group announced the result at Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine held in Hiroshima-city. A gum disease is that a patient’s ligament, which [...]

 At a news conference, Medical School of Gunma University announced that it made a first therapy against a male patient with prostate cancer in the premises of heavy particle radiotherapy. And also it announced the course of his symptoms and future treatment plan. An initial heavy particle beam was radiated [...]

 On April 19th, 2010, “Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research” announced that it figured out the pathogenic mechanism of early-onset Parkinson’s disease, which is a neurodegenerative disease and begins at under the age of 40 years. The cause is that abnormal mitochondria accumulate within cells due to the gene variant. [...]

 By using mice, Professor Shousuke Nakajima, Nara Medical University, succeeded in producing a bowel from iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cell), which can be a cell of all anatomies and internal organs, for the first time in the world. According to him, he and other two researchers cultivated iPS cells [...]

 ”Merck & Co., Inc.”, one of US major pharmaceutical firm, penetrates into the Japanese market of generic drug of biotechnology-based medicine. First of all, it develops the generic drug of anti-anemia agent and then has a desire to sell it from 2012. A lot of biotechnology-based medicines, which are developed [...]

 Professor Hiroshi Takayanagi and his study team, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, discovered the gene which brings on an autoimmune disease, i.e. Rheumatoid Arthritis and so on. By using mice, they confirmed that they benefited symptomatically from the destruction of this gene, and explained it leads to the development of [...]

 The study group of Tokyo University, which consists of Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, research worker Maki Kiso and so on, confirmed that the anti-flu medicine of CS-8958, which “Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.” is filing its production and sales to Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry, has effect against H5N1 bird flu virus, [...]

 ”Osaka University” and “CosMED Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.”, bio venture company, developed a sheet-like vaccine, which is put on a skin. The sheet developed consists of collagen, hyaluronic acid and so on. There are many a-few-micrometer-long projections on the surface of the sheet. A vaccine component leaks out of such projections [...]

 The number of people with diabetes in the world is 240 million persons (as of 2006), and it is 8.97 million persons (as of 2007) in Japan, which is still increasing. If the figure of 13.2 million, which is the number of “would-be people with diabetes”, is added to this [...]

 Lecturer Motoko Yanagida and her fellows, Kyoto University, have created the promising technology, which relieves the case of Alport’s syndrome, and posted it to the medical journal in USA on February 9th, 2010. Alport’s syndrome is arising out of gene defect and brings on kidney failure. The feature of the [...]