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IAB accepts fifteen local students as "Special Research Student"

Fifteen local students (ten from Tsuruoka Minami high school, twofrom Tsuruoka National College of Technology, two from Haguro high school, and one from Tsuruoka Chuo high school) started their research activity at IAB. A welcome ceremony for those "Special Research Student" was held on May 16, 2012.

IAB appoints nine local high school students as "RA-U18" research assistants

Nine local high school students joined on-going cutting edge projects at IAB. (This program was established in May 2009 ) The high school, Tsuruoka Chuo high school (Principal Mr. Toshiya Inoue, total enrollment of 866 students), is located right next to IAB and the nine students were selected after written examinations and interviews. A welcome ceremony for the students appointed as "RA-U18" research assistants was held on April 26, 2012.

Changes in the Charged Metabolite and Sugar Profiles of Pasteurized and Unpasteurized Japanese Sake with Storage

A group of IAB researchers including Dr. Masahiro Sugimoto of IAB, Keio University in collaboration with Tsuruoka Shuzo Kyogikai and Shonai Commerce and Industry Center, published the findings of a new study entitled "Changes in the Charged Metabolite and Sugar Profiles of Pasteurized and Unpasteurized Japanese Sake with Storage" in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry on March 7, 2012.

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Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Microbes in an Oceanfront Deep-Subsurface Hot Spring Reveals Novel Small RNAs and Type-Specific tRNA Degradation

A group of IAB researchers including graduate student Shinnosuke Murakami (Graduate School of Media and Governance, Master's program), Dr.Kosuke Fujishima (NASA Ames Research Center) and Professor Akio Kanai of IAB, Keio University published the findings of a new study entitled "Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Microbes in an Oceanfront Deep-Subsurface Hot Spring Reveals Novel Small RNAs and Type-Specific tRNA Degradation" in Applied and Environmental Microbiology on January 31, 2012.

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Nematode-specific tRNAs that decode an alternative genetic code for leucine

A group of IAB researchers including graduate student Kiyofumi Hamashima (Graduate School of Media and Governance, master's program) and Professor Akio Kanai of IAB, Keio University published the findings of a new study entitled "Nematode-specific tRNAs that decode an alternative genetic code for leucine" in Nucleic Acids Research on December 20, 2011.

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IAB and DAESANG Corporation　launch joint research on microbial fermentation　

IAB and DAESANG Corporation announced that they launch a joint research program to elucidate the mechanism of microbial fermentation.

JASSO Student Award 2011

Ms.Hanae Shimo(Undergraduate student) won JASSO Student Award 2011.

Can computer models based on fundamental laws assist the treatment for cancers?

Over the last decade, scientists have been intensely investigating on TRAIL, a protein released by our immune system, to treat malignant cancers. The benefit of using TRAIL, as compared to conventional chemo therapies, is that it specifically destroys carcinomas without affecting the surrounding normal tissues. This is done through a mechanism known as the programmed cell death or apoptosis. However, the TRAIL-based treatments so far have not been overtly successful as many carcinomas are able to 'cheat' the death signal, triggered by the TRAIL, into a survival signal.

A team of scientists from IAB, Keio University in Japan have formulated a method using a computational model and, with its aid,
predict a novel target that would in return cheat the cancer cells to switch from survival to apoptosis mode. The work of Dr Selvarajoo and colleagues, utilizing the fundamental physical law of conservation, pinpoints an intracellular target, whose removal will reroute most of the resultant signaling flux of TRAIL into a predetermined direction along the caspases-induced death pathway. Their findings are published in Scientific Reports, a newly launched journal of the Nature Publishing Group.

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http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111107/srep00144/full/srep00144.html

Special Seminar "Future of Cancer care" held Special seminar "Future of Cancer care" was held at Grand el-sun on November 13, 2011. (Co-host:Tsuruoka Medical Association, Shonai hospital, Tsuruoka ci...

31st Capillary electrophoresis Sysmposium

31st Capillary electrophoresis Sysmposium was held at Tsurouka Metabolome Campus, Tsuruoka city on Nov 9-11,2011. 4 keynote lectures, 2 special lectures, 37 general oral presentations and 34 poster sessions presented. About 210 participants from all over Japan gathered to Tsuruoka Japan.

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