Aflac Incorporated to Webcast Tokyo Analysts Meeting

COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL ) announced today that it will webcast its analyst meeting that will be conducted in Tokyo, Japan. Members of Aflac Japan's management and its sales force will discuss the company's operations in Japan. The meeting...

Samplify Systems Announces Distribution Agreement With Tokyo Electron Device Limited, Broadening Availability of Signal Compression Technology

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and YOKOHAMA CITY, Japan, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Samplify Systems, Inc., a real-time signal compression technology company, and Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TED), the leading Japanese distributor of Xilinx FPGAs, manufacturer of inrevium evaluation board solutions, and pr...

Samplify Systems Announces Availability of Compression for Computed Tomography; Integrated Slip-Ring Solution to be Jointly Developed with Schleifring und Apparatebau and Tokyo Electron Device Ltd.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., FURSTENFELDBRUCK, Germany and YOKOHAMA CITY, Japan, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Samplify Systems, Inc., a real-time compression technology company, Schleifring und Apparatebau GmbH, the market leading slip- ring manufacturer to the medical and defense markets, and Tokyo Electro...

UCLA, Tokyo University nanobiotechnology symposium at UCLA to highlight advances in nanomedicine

UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and the University of Tokyo's Center for NanoBio Integration (CNBI) will jointly sponsor an international symposium on nanobiotechnology at UCLA Nov. 12. The CNSI-CNBI Symposium on NanoBiotechnology, which will be held in the auditorium of UCLA's n...

MakroCare opens new office in Tokyo

MakroCare, a global clinical services firm, opens office in Tokyo. (PRWEB) March 1, 2009 -- MakroCare, US based multidisciplinary knowledge and technology driven global clinical services firm, which provides clinical research support services to pharmaceutical, biotechn...

UCLA signs historic memorandum with pediatric institution in Tokyo

As part of a new initiative to create partnerships with pediatric research institutions around the globe, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the department of pediatrics at Tokyo's Jikei University School of Medicine. The memorandum is the first among...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

Just a short walk from some of Tokyo's most chic addresses, the smell of fish permeates the air. But not for long, if the government gets its way . In one of the most jarring scenes in Tokyo, fishmongers carry baskets loaded with their fresh catch at Tsukiji market, minutes away from the glitz of t...

Armani to Launch First Spa in Tokyo

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani's group said Wednesday it will open its first spa this autumn in Japan, a nation beloved of both hot springs and high fashion. The Armani Group is opening its giant Armani/Ginza Tower in Ginza, one of Tokyo's ritziest districts, as part of its strate...

John Hopkins Hospitals- Now at Tokyo

John Hopkins Medical Institutions based mainly in Baltimore, United States, are now spreading their wings with distant shores in mind//. As part of that move, a John Hopkins clinic will be set up at Tokyo, Japan. The reason behind this is cited to be Japan’s growing discontent with the nation...

Novo Nordisk Appoints Per Falk, M.D., Ph.D., as Vice President for Clinical, Medical and Regulatory Affairs for North America

... Dr. Falk joined Novo Nordisk in 2002 as a vice president to establish the Experimental Medicine unit in Denmark. Later he served the company in tokyo where he was responsible for drug development and market authorization of Novo Nordisk's medical entities in Japan and Australia. In 2008, Dr. Falk t...

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Current Status of the Development Programs of New Indications and Formulations for Aricept(R) for Enhancing Patient Value

... tokyo and WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Eisai Corporatio...

In Rare Disorder, a Familiar Protein Disrupts Gene Function

...o-authors on the study came from Children's Hospital; the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Drexel University School of Medicine; the tokyo Institute of Technology; the Misakaenosono Mutsumi Developmental, Medical, and Welfare Center, in Isahaya, Japan; and the National University of Col...

New Analysis Evaluated Impact of Genetic Variation on Response to Prasugrel

... tokyo and INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new substudy from... Securities and Exchange Commission and Daiichi Sankyo's filings with the tokyo Stock Exchange. Daiichi Sankyo and Lilly undertake no duty to update for...

InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group Announce Partnership to Facilitate Open Innovation

... Nature Network , helps scientists to meet, communicate and collaborate. NPG is a global company with principal offices in London, New York and tokyo and offices in Basingstoke, Boston, Buenos Aires, Delhi, Hong Kong, Madrid, Melbourne, Munich, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul and Washington DC. For more...

Applying Clinical Findings to the Practice of Medicine

...-bone insertion," stated Dr. Thomopoulos. Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis Hiroshi Kawaguchi, MD, Ph.D. and co-authors at the University of tokyo won the 2009 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award. Takashi Yamada, MD, Ph.D., Toru Akune, MD, Ph.D., and Naoshi Ogata, MD, Ph.D. worked with Dr. Kawa...

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Announces Development Policy for Anti-Parkinson's Disease Drug KW-6002 (Istradefylline)

... TOKYO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, tokyo Japan; President, Dr. Yuzuru Matsuda) announced on January 15 (Tokyo Time) that it has decided to continue the domestic development of its proprietary...

Daiichi Sankyo Initiates Phase III Trial of Its Investigational Factor Xa Inhibitor, DU-176b, in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

... tokyo and EDISON, N.J., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568), announced today that it has initiated its pivotal Phas...

Daiichi Sankyo and Lilly Respond to Speculation on Status of Prasugrel New Drug Application

... tokyo and INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In response to recent m...es Securities and Exchange Commission and Daiichi Sankyo's filings with the tokyo Stock Exchange. Daiichi Sankyo and Lilly undertake no duty to update forwar...

NVA237 Phase II Results Presented at the European Respiratory Society Annual Meeting Show Promising Efficacy and Tolerability With Potentially Faster Onset Than Tiotropium

... tokyo and CHIPPENHAM, England, October 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sosei Group Corporation ("Sosei"; TSE Mothers Index: 4565) and Vectura Group plc ("Vectur...

Eularis Releases First-Ever Study on ROI of Pre-Launch Named Patient Programmes

.... Bates has gained wide recognition within the international pharmaceutical industry for her expertise in marketing return analysis and is speaking in tokyo and Sydney in October on this topic also. In addition to this paper and other articles in peer-reviewed journals, she has also authored several must-h...

Tokyo in Medical Dictionary

Venom

...a, and is produced by modified saliva glands. ... proteinaceous nature of snake venom was established by Napoleon ... ... man 3, spider-man 4, tokyo superpunch, venom . New Details On the Venom ' Script ... We haven't mentioned the Venom movie since last August here at Screen Rant ... Explo...

Panic

...aracterized by un-expected and repeated episodes of intense ... people with panic disorder develop intense ... What Causes Panic Disorder? ... tokyo Therapy - Psychotherapy and Healing Practice in Tokyo. ... Panic attacks are "discrete periods of intense fear or discomfort... APA information ...

Tokyo in Biological News

A bird's eye view of art

...oncept of beauty similar to that of humans, and if so, how do they do it? A mixture of watercolor and pastel paintings by children from a school in tokyo were classified by the school's art teacher and 10 other adults as either 'good' or 'bad'. Paintings were considered 'good' when the images were clear...

Wet ear wax and unpleasant body odors signal breast cancer risk

...r predication of breast cancer risk by genotyping," said Toshihisa Ishikawa, Ph.D., a professor from the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the tokyo Institute of Technology and the senior researcher involved in the work. "Using a rapid and cost-effective typing method presented in this study would ...

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker awarded the Order of the Rising Sun

... matter for the DFG and its research funding, the President of the DFG continued, as was very clearly demonstrated by the opening of the DFG office in tokyo in mid-April this year. The Order of the Rising Sun is the second most prestigious Japanese award and the highest national award that can be bestow...

Protein structure determined in living cells

...ture and by its interaction partners in the cell. Until now, proteins had to be isolated for analyzing them. An international team of researchers from tokyo Metropolitan University, Goethe University, and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) has, for the first time, determined the structure ...

Self-digestion as a means of survival

...ts at Frankfurt's Goethe University, working together with scientists from the University of Troms in Norway, the Weizmann Institute in Israel and the tokyo Metropolitan Institute in Japan have just come up with an explanation as to how autophagosomes know exactly which proteins and organelles they should ...

Structure of enzyme against chemical warfare agents determined

...me DFPase from the squid Loligo vulgaris , is able to rapidly and efficiently detoxify chemical warfare agents such as Sarin, which was used in the tokyo subway attacks in 1995. A detailed understanding of the mechanism by which enzymes catalyze chemical reactions is necessary for efforts aiming to im...

'Fishy' clue helps establish how proteins evolve

...o, a "new" amino acid was added to the alphabet of 20 that commonly make up proteins in organisms today. Now researchers at Yale and the University of tokyo have demonstrated how this rare amino acid and, by example, other amino acids made its way into the menu for protein synthesis. The study appeared i...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 17, 2008

... ARTICLE http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/bc800258v CONTACT: Atsushi Sato, Ph.D. School of Bioscience and Biotechnology tokyo University of Technology Tokyo, Japan Phone: 81-42-637-2197 Fax: 81-42-637-2112 Email: atsato@bs.teu.ac.jp ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 ...

Springer and the Physiological Society of Japan sign publishing agreement

...ertebrate physiology, comparative papers are also included. Dr. Yasuo Sakuma, head of the Department of Physiology at the Nippon Medical School in tokyo and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiological Sciences , said, "In the post-genome era, increasing interest is being devoted to phenotypic expr...

REGiMMUNE receives $12 million in grants to develop transplant and allergy drugs

... Mountain View, CA and tokyo December 8, 2008 REGiMMUNE Corporation, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing technologies and products for immune disord...

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Kornberg Associates Architects Opens Tokyo Office

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Kornberg Associates Architects ( http://www.kornberg.com ) has opened a Tokyo office. The company has also been retained by the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) to help design a new government funded scientific research campus and graduate univ...

Nanotech particles affect brain development in mice

...anoparticles while pregnant showed alteration in gene expression related to neurological dysfunction. Ken Takeda led a team of researchers from the tokyo University of Science, Japan, who carried out the tests. He said, "Nanotechnology and the production of novel man-made nanoparticles are increasing wo...

Asia Debut for Money-Saving Pharma-Packaging Machines from Ireland

...r the first time there at the world’s largest pharmaceutical event in tokyo on 1-3 July. Ahead of its presence at Interphex, Sepha has already recei...ere for the first time at the world’s largest pharmaceutical event in tokyo on 1-3 July. Ahead of its presence at Interphex, Sepha has already recei...

Structure of enzyme against chemical warfare agents determined

...me DFPase from the squid Loligo vulgaris , is able to rapidly and efficiently detoxify chemical warfare agents such as Sarin, which was used in the tokyo subway attacks in 1995. A detailed understanding of the mechanism by which enzymes catalyze chemical reactions is necessary for efforts aiming to im...

Multiple Types of Heart Attacks Reduced by Prasugrel in TRITON-TIMI 38 Trial

...arction provided jointly by leading international cardiology societies tokyo and INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Investigators from the P... Securities and Exchange Commission and Daiichi Sankyo's filings with the tokyo Stock Exchange. Daiichi Sankyo and Lilly undertake no duty to update forw...

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group Appoints Dr. Peng Wang as Chief Scientific Officer

...rch Institute where he worked for eighteen years with increasing responsibilities. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of tokyo in 1990. "As a recognized biopharmaceutical expert, Dr. Wang is well positioned to contribute to Simcere's strategic development in this area,...

Structure of enzyme against chemical warfare agents determined

...me DFPase from the squid Loligo vulgaris , is able to rapidly and efficiently detoxify chemical warfare agents such as Sarin, which was used in the tokyo subway attacks in 1995. A detailed understanding of the mechanism by which enzymes catalyze chemical reactions is necessary for efforts aiming to im...

NovaBay and Galderma Enter Into Global Agreement to Develop and Commercialize NovaBay's Novel Aganocide Drugs for Major Dermatological Conditions

...olutions for skin senescence. Galderma has research and development facilities located in Sophia Antipolis (France), Princeton, New Jersey (USA), and tokyo (Japan). Leading worldwide dermatology brands include Differin(R), Epiduo(R), Oracea(R), MetroGel(R) 1%, Rozex(R), Clobex(R), Tri-Luma(R), Loceryl(R)...

Structure of enzyme against chemical warfare agents determined

...me DFPase from the squid Loligo vulgaris , is able to rapidly and efficiently detoxify chemical warfare agents such as Sarin, which was used in the tokyo subway attacks in 1995. A detailed understanding of the mechanism by which enzymes catalyze chemical reactions is necessary for efforts aiming to im...

Alltech, Mitsui and Asahi Breweries Create New Venture

...www.asahibeer.co.jp/english/ Advanced Yeast Technologies Japan The headquarters of Advanced Yeast Technologies will be established in Sumida-ku, tokyo and the representing director will be Mr. K. Iwato. The company will sell yeast extract. The purpose of the company is to develop products from emergi...

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Parthenogenesis

...rthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis is seen as a possible way to clone primates , with the emphasis on human cloning . In April 2004, scientists at tokyo University of Agriculture used parthenogenesis to successfully create fatherless mice. The alteration between parthenogenesis and sexual reproduct...