iPS cells bring hope for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, but China and the US are ahead in bringing Japan’s discovery to practical use.
Kobe City Eye Hospital in Hyogo Prefecture announced on October 16 that it had performed the world’s first clinical trial transplant to reverse blindness....
An Osaka University team’s transplant of pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into a patient suffering from a serious heart malfunction, which was unveiled by the...
A team of researchers led by Osaka University Professor Koji Nishida has successfully treated an eye disease patient by transplanting artificially-cultured corneal cells derived from...
The 2025 World Expo has been awarded to Osaka and plans are in high gear for the big event. It will be Osaka's...
The generation who joined the ranks of the so-called elderly this year, like myself, lived through the era that saw both a period of high economic...
On January 22, it was revealed that an assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA - headed by Shinya...
Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, 55, became more widely known after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012. Five...