Montana State University researchers to compare Montana, Japanese copper mines
Two Montana State University historians who see ...similarities between former copper mines in Montana and Japan have...received $306,000 from the National Science Foundation to investigate...and share their findings. ... Brett Walker, Tim LeCain and six MSU graduate students will compare how...Montanans and Japanese residents dealt with the technology, science and...pollution associated with t...Pitt study notes decline in male births in the US and Japan
PITTSBURGH, April 9 A study published in this weeks online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives reports that during the past thirty years, the number of male births has decreased each year in the U.S. and Japan. In a review of all births in both countries, the University of Pittsburgh-led study found significantly fewer boys being born relative to girls in the U.S. and Japan, and that a...Springer editor and author Koki Horikoshi to receive 2006 Japan Academy Prize
... Prof. Horikoshi received the award for his studies on the diversity, physiology, and application of alkaliphilic microorganisms. He was the first person in the world to isolate alkaliphiles (alkaline-loving microorganisms) and opened up a new vista of the microbial world....Yale licenses potential anti-HIV agent to Oncolys BioPharma of Japan
New Haven, Conn. - Yale University today announced that it has concluded a license agreement granting Oncolys BioPharma, Inc. of Tokyo the global exclusive right for clinical and business development of a novel compound for the treatment of HIV. ......A patent application has been submitted by Yale for 2',3'-Didehydro-3'-Deoxy-4'-Ethynylthymidine, or Ed4T, a compound with a new and potentially ef...Carnegie's Global Ecology inks partnership with Japanese satellite firm
Stanford, CA The Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology has signed a one-year contract with ImageONE, a Japanese satellite imaging company based in Tokyo. Under the terms of the agreement, Greg Asner's group will host an ImageONE engineer, who will learn ecological remote sensing and analysis techniques from Asner and his staff. In return, ImageONE will provide Carnegie with funds t...Japanese researchers get to the heart of atherosclerosis
SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Using positron emission tomography (PET), the medical isotope 15O-water and cold pressor tests, Japanese researchers were able to detect the beginnings of atherosclerosis--before the disease became clinically evident. These results were released during SNM's 53rd Annual Meeting June 37 in San Diego....... This revelation will allow physicians to advise high-risk patients--who s...Dust storms may carry bacteria to Japan from China
Bacteria found in soil around Tokyo are not indigenous to the area. A study published in the open access journal Saline Systems reveals a large proportion of salt-loving bacteria in non-saline soil around Tokyo. The researchers suggest that dust storms may have carried the bacteria from their natural habitats in China. ......Akinobu Echigo and colleagues, from Toyo University and the Noda Institu...International stem cell meeting in Kobe, Japan
A critical mass of leading experts will meet from 1st to 3rd September in Kobe, Japan, to discuss and summarize the current status in the highly contentious field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. It is expected that the meeting will help to clarify the potential and remaining challenges of this promising research area. The workshop is jointly organized by the Ernst Schering Resear...Japanese women found to have lower recurrence of breast cancer
May 2, 2005 Early-stage breast cancer patients of Japanese descent that are treated with a lumpectomy and radiation therapy are more likely to be cured of their cancer than women of other ancestries, according to a new study published in the May 2005 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radio...GroPep announces Japanese approval of biopharmaceutical that uses its cell culture products
Adelaide biotechnology company, Gro , announced today that a...biopharmaceutical product with a key manufacturing ingredient supplied by Gro has received regulatory approval in Japan....... 's Cell Culture Products to have achieved regulatory approval. ...... Limited (ASX: GRO) has today announced that a sixth biopharmaceutical product that uses the Company's Cell Culture...Products in its ma...Erkki Ruoslahti of The Burnham Institute named recipient of 2005 Japan Prize
(La Jolla, California) Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti, Distinguished Professor at The Burnham Institute, has been named as recipient of the 2005 Japan Prize in the category of cell biology. Dr. Ruoslahti will share the prize, 50 million yen (approximately $487,000 U.S.), with Dr. Masatoshi Takeichi, Director of RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. The award will be presented to the scie...Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
By pressing a few numbers on a phone keypad, health workers in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh in India will be able to report timely information in order to better respond to disease outbreak. ...Health workers are participating in a pilot project that aims to demonstrate that effective use of information technology can support health systems to control Japanese encephalitis. In partner...