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New chemistry techniques improve hybrid scanner performance

...usly provide the complementary strengths of PET and MRI in imaging rats and small animals," said Mitsuaki Tatsumi, associate professor of radiology at osaka University Graduate School of Medicine and Medical Hospital, Osaka, Japan. "This ability opens up exciting new opportunities in research in terms of i...

ASGE and ASGE Foundation hold Crystal Awards Dinner as part of Digestive Disease Week

...DO, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Erica Moran, MD, Two Awards - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Kiyokazu Nakajima, MD, PhD, osaka University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan Brant K. Oelschlager, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Adrian Park, MD, University of Maryland ...

Dr. Tanaka Appointed as Honorary Consul-General by Republic of Singapore

...naka and the Menicon Co., Ltd. are proud of this appointment, given that the Nagoya region is Japan's most important area after the areas of Tokyo and osaka where Singapore is represented by their own offices of Embassy and General Consulate respectively. "I am very gratified to have been selected for...

Support Network May Play Role in Benefits of Drinking

...avoidance of unhealthy behaviors and enhancement of stress buffering," the study's corresponding author, Hiroyasu Iso, a professor of public health at osaka University, said in a university news release. "In our study, compared with light-to-moderate drinkers with high social support, those with low soc...

Studying the female form

...more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges. According to Kensuke Nakamura of Kyoto Institute of Technology and Takao Kurokawa of osaka University, identifying body shape components is critical for designing close-fitting products, whether underwear, everyday clothes, or safety garment...

Scientists discover key factor in controlling the breakdown of bone

...es (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. A report describing the project, conceived by Masaru Ishii, M.D., Ph.D., a visiting fellow from osaka University in Japan, appears online in Nature . Bone is a dynamic tissue, constantly undergoing growth and degradation. Bone degeneration, also k...

Orion Health Signs Trinity Design for Japanese Market

...er and distributor of Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine. Trinity Design is a systems implementation and integration company based in osaka Japan, specializing in the design and development of hospital software and clinical applications. Trinity Design has already negotiated its first ...

Crowded Households Raise Women's Heart Risk

...nts were two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with serious heart disease than those living with just a spouse, a group led by researchers at osaka University reported in the Dec. 11 online issue of Heart . No similar increase for men in such households was seen in the study, which followed al...

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. Announces Three Studies of Oral Factor Xa Inhibitor DU-176b Accepted for the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology

...revention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients After Total Knee Arthroplasty (Abstract 34), by Takashi Fuji, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, osaka Koseinenkin Hospital, Osaka, Japan, Satoru Fujita, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Takarazuka Daiichi Hospital, Hyogo, Japan, Shintaro Tachiban...

The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates

...rystals, respectively. Physiology or Medicine Shizuo Akira Professor, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, osaka University, Osaka, Japan -and- Bruce A. Beutler Professor and Chairman, Department of Genetics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif....

Osaka in Medical Technology

Alexion Reports Positive Results from AEGIS Registration Study of Soliris in Japanese Patients With PNH

...observed in the clinical trials conducted in the United States and Europe," said Yuzuru Kanakura, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Hematology and Oncology at osaka University Hospital in Suita, Japan, and lead author of the study. "Consistent with the results from the SHEPHERD and TRIUMPH trials, these patients ...

Alexion Commences Dosing in AEGIS Registration Study of Soliris(R) (eculizumab) in Patients with PNH in Japan

...ady available to patients in the U.S. and Europe," said Dr. Yuzuru Kanakura, M.D. Ph.D., Professor and Chairman Department of Hematology and Oncology, osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. "We are excited to be participating in such an important study and look forward to the Soliris program progres...

BioMarin Partner AnGes MG, Inc. Submits BLA to Japanese Ministry of Health

...ease. About AnGes MG, Inc. AnGes MG, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company founded in 1999, was established on an innovative discovery by researchers of osaka University. The company specializes in research, development and practical application of genetic medicine. Current programs include the Hepatocyte Gr...

LANI completes Phase I in Japan and to commence Phase I in UK

...ny name: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED Representative: Takashi Shoda, President and Representative Director (Code no.: 4568, First Section, Tokyo, osaka and Nagoya Stock Exchanges) Please address inquiries to Toshio Takahashi, Corporate Officer in Charge, Corporate Communications Department Telephon...

Osaka in Medical Dictionary

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Osaka in Biological News

New link in liver cancer

...ion or alcohol-induced cirrhosis. In severe cases, this damage can lead to cancer. A new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and osaka University reveals how one protein helps decide the fate of damaged livers in mice. The study will be published online on March 30th in the Journal o...

Lower your blood pressure, hydrate your skin and reduce dental plaque -- with chocolate?

... increased circulation. Think chocolate is bad for your teeth? Think againit may actually be beneficial. A study out of the University of osaka Graduate School of Dentistry in Osaka, Japan found that after four days of rinsing with a cocoa flavanol extract without other oral hygiene methods (s...

Biophysical Society names 2009 award recipients

...dicine for her outstanding contributions to the field of quantitative FRET and fluorescence imaging as applied to cell signaling. Keiichi Namba of osaka University will receive the Biophysical Society Founders Award for his multi-faceted biophysical achievements and innovative studies of the mechanisms...

Scientists discover a new player in innate immune response

...ptible to bacterial infections. And when they knocked down the protein in all body cells, the fly larvae died in an early stage. Colleagues at Japan's osaka University investigated the corresponding mouse Akirin: In mice, too, the protein fulfills the same function as in the fruit fly and in man. "What...

Japanese beetle may help fight hemlock-killing insect

...ial Insects Quarantine Laboratory at Virginia Tech after a scientist at the osaka Museum of Natural History discovered an adelgid predator in the island coun... and discovered that the insect plaguing eastern hemlocks originated in the osaka region of Japan. Virginia Tech researchers are hopeful that the Japanese be...

A new male-specific gene in algae unveils an origin of male and female

...ate in sex-specific sperm development, are reported by Hisayoshi Nozaki and colleagues at the University of Tokyo, Rikkyo (St. Paul’s) University, and osaka University. The paper appears in the December 19th issue of the journal Current Biology, published by Cell Press. The familiar notion of the separat...

New roles for growth factors: Enticing nerve cells to muscles

...nal contributors to this study included first author Ryuichi Shirasaki, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in Pfaff's lab and now a faculty member at osaka University, Japan; postdoctoral fellow Joseph W. Lewcock, Ph.D.; and research assistant Karen Lettieri, both at Salk. ...

15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome

...Sakai, Chengzhe Xu, Keiichi Ozono and Koji Inui of osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; Quinten Wa...Hopkins; Itaru Yanagihara and Minoru Yamada of the osaka Medical Center for Maternal and Child Health; and ...anbul University. Vega and Gordillo studied at the osaka Graduate School of Medicine, also. ...

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R-Tech Ueno Notifies R&D Items

... Ltd. Representative Director & President: Yukihiko Mashima Head Office: 1-1-7 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Code No.4573, osaka Securities Exchange; Hercules CONTACT: Koji Nakamura Business Management Department R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. ...

Elsevier Releases Results of Alternative Energy Research Leadership Study Identifying Top 25 Institutions Worldwide

... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration United States 121 University of California at Irvine United States 101 osaka University Japan 97 California Institute of Technology United States 97 Harvar...

Forward-Thinking Patient Recruitment Company Poised to Create Bridges Between Japanese Clinical R&D Industry and Global Clinical Trial Marketplace

...dges -- between recruitment barriers and enrollment solutions, and between cultures and business practices," said Jeremy Buchman, who will head up the osaka office. "And, it is an optimal location from which to help operationalize our patient recruitment efforts on behalf of our clients throughout the Asia...

Beckman Coulter to Acquire Lab-Based Diagnostics Business From Olympus Corporation

...l endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. The company's stock is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Section 1 (Ticker: 7733) and the osaka Securities Exchange Section 1 (Ticker 7733) also the company's ADR trades on the OTC (Over the counter) market in USA. (Symbol: OCPNY). In its most r...

Tsunami invisibility cloak, dark energy v. the void, sorting nanotubes with light, and more

...es and with different amounts of twist (also known as chiralities). Each type of nanotube has its own electronic and optical properties. Physicists at osaka University in Japan used colored light to selectively manipulate different types of carbon nanotubes. They found that some of nanotubes displayed a te...

Molecular hula hoop

...is. Trying to observe such rotational motion on the molecular scale is an extremely difficult undertaking. Japanese researchers at the Universities of osaka and Kyoto have now met this challenge. As Akira Harada and his team report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they were able to get "snapshots" of indi...

Naglazyme Approved by Japanese Ministry of Health

...se. About AnGes MG, Inc. AnGes MG, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company founded in 1999, was established on an innovative discovery by researchers of osaka University. The company specializes in research, development and practical application of genetic medicine. Current programs include the Hepatocyte Gr...

Rice wins innovation award for international program

...dents have both a great laboratory experience and a life-changing cultural experience." Rice junior Paul Thompson, a 2007 NanoJapan participant at osaka University, said, "Not only have I made friends and connections abroad, but Ive also been able to continue research in a similar vein here at Rice und...

Japanese Continue Relentless Biotech Stake in Midwest

... Japans most prolific life science areas, which includes the core cities of osaka (pharmaceuticals), Kobe (medical devices) and Kyoto (nanotechnology and tis...tember 2002 and was started by Ryuichi Morishita, an assistant professor at osaka University (one of the prestigious national universities). Similar to ch...

Japan's pharma mergers will trickle to the Midwest

...d Otsuka. How will all of this affect the Midwest? A couple thoughts come to mind. Most Japanese pharma companies are either located in Tokyo or osaka (the New York and Chicago of Japan). Likewise, most Japanese pharma companies in the U.S. have set up shop in the New York area (New Jersey) and Chica...