Life Science & Medical Technology

The world’s smallest and lightest artificial heart-lung apparatus has been developed by the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, the center announced. The device is small enough to be used in medical emergencies outdoors or on air ambulances.

A Japanese team is preparing a clinical trial to inject immune cells made from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into patients with head and neck cancer, it has been learned.

DNA profiling has established itself as an essential tool in criminal investigations in the nation, due to its vaunted accuracy in individual identification.

A group of Japanese researchers is developing a device in which a smartphone notifies epilepsy sufferers ahead of seizures via a sensor built into an undershirt that detects warning signs through fluctuations of the heart rhythm.

Two of the first kanji Conner Lowe learned were the ones that make up the word daizu, meaning soybeans.For him, knowing those two characters, 大豆, is a matter of life and death because he has a serious allergy to legumes.

U.S. food company Just Inc. and Japanese meat producer Toriyama Chikusan Shokuhin have forged a partnership for the development of lab-grown wagyu beef, with the aim of distributing their product globally.

Clinical studies on pre-implantation genetic screening, or PGS, of eggs fertilized in vitro has suggested that the screening can reduce the miscarriage rate, the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology said.

Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings will purchase the French over-the-counter drugmaker UPSA from Bristol-Myers Squibb, the latest move by Japan's top seller of nonprescription medicines to expand overseas.

Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine at a ceremony Monday in Stockholm, for his discovery of a protein on immune cells that paved the way for a new approach to cancer treatment.

The government said Tuesday it will offer free rubella vaccinations for three years to men who were unvaccinated in their childhood amid an outbreak of the disease that threatens to dampen demand for travel to Japan.