Dr. Hideki Makinoshima, the team leader of the Cancer Metabolomics Laboratory at the National Cancer Center Tsuruoka Collaborative Research Center Cancer research is a critical concern because one in...

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When you are interested in new technology or products, have you ever wished that you could easily obtain more information than a simple catalog or Web page? To address this, we have started posting va...

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Research into the structural analysis of collagen has progressed since the 1930s, and it has been discovered that type I collagen consists of polypeptide chains with approximately 1,000 amino acids t...

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(This article is a partially modified version of an advertorial published on Research-er.jp) Founded in 1959, Koken Co., Ltd. began with research into the use of external prostheses to replace defect...

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In recent years, with advances in stem cells, such as induced pluripotential stem (iPS) cells, culture technology, and the promotion of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement) in in vivo exp...

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Open innovation has been increasingly heard over recent years but what does it exactly mean? According to books by Professor Henry Chesbrough ‘Open Innovation: the New Imperative for Creating and Pro...

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We guess for many people the term molecular crowding is not familiar. According to a search in PubMed, the number of papers published about it in 2017 is 63, making it seem not a hot topic of researc...

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Collagen is widely used as a coating for cell cultureware to promote cell adhesion and proliferation. This coating potential of collage was first reported in a 1956 paper1) by Gey et al. who establis...

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The final products resulting from a non-enzymatic glycation reaction (the Maillard reaction) of proteins by reducing sugars are collectively referred to as AGEs. The Maillard reaction consists of a r...

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At one point, many pharmaceutical companies were conducting research on oligonucleotide therapy, which employs chemically synthesized nucleotide-like small molecule drugs with potential specificity s...

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