RCAST NAVI 2018/07

RCAST NAVI - 2018/07/31
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** Press Release
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Sorting ghosts
AI-driven ultrafast technology visually identifies cells without images
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A team made of a scientific start-up company and academic researchers has invented a new cell identification and sorting system called Ghost Cytometry. The system combines a novel imaging technique with artificial intelligence to identify and sort cells with unprecedented high-throughput speed. The scientists leading the project hope that their method will be used to identify and sort cancer cells circulating in patients' blood, enable faster drug discovery, and improve the quality of cell-based medical therapies.

http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pressrelease/2018/20180615release_rcast_en.html


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University of Tokyo's RCAST, Fujitsu, and Kowa
Successfully Create Promising New Compounds to Fight Drug-Resistant Cancer
Use IT-based drug discovery to develop effective compounds
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The University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Fujitsu Limited, and Kowa Company Ltd. today announced that using IT-based drug discovery technologies, which entails computer-based virtual design and evaluation, they have successfully created new small molecule compounds that can inhibit cancer-causing “target proteins,” and that demonstrate promise against cancers that have shown resistance to existing drugs.
In order to link the results of this research to the creation of new drugs, Kowa intends to improve upon the small molecule compounds discovered through this research.

http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pressrelease/2018/20180613release_rcast_en.html



** Research News
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Going a long way with super-short work
Researcher pushes new job model for people with disabilities
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UTokyo researcher pushes new job model for people with disabilities.
Despite all the talk of inclusion and diversity as core social values, many people with disabilities in Japan find their options dwindle fast as they start looking for jobs. Those who are unable to fit into 40-hour-a-week work style often find themselves shut out entirely from the job market. UTokyo researcher Takeo Kondo proposes an alternative:super-short employment.

UTokyo FOCUS
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z0508_00008.html


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Academic, Corporate Collaboration Succeeds at World's Most Efficient Solar Power-Generated Hydrogen Production
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A research group with Professor Masakazu Sugiyama (Energy System) designed and built a system for water electrolysis using electricity obtained from high-efficiency concentrator photovoltaic cells, successfully converting 18.8% of the solar energy (daily average) to hydrogen energy.

http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/report/2018/0719_en.html


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Your body is transparentized in a virtual environment
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A research group, including Professor Masahiko Inami (Information Somatics) have found that the visual-motor synchronicity of only the hands and feet can induce a sense of illusory ownership over an invisible body interpolated between virtual hands and feet. It can provide the illusory ownership over the invisible body at a distance, or enable the operation of one's own transparentized body in a virtual environment.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/tuot-ybi051118.php


** Award
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Project researcher Daigo Terutsuki (Intelligent Cooperative Systems) won the 32nd Advanced Technology Award “The Prize of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology”.

http://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/report/2018/0723_en.html


** Report
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Online Article:[The Mainichi] An unprecedented heat wave has washed over the Japanese archipelago, seeing the mercury rise to a record 41.1 degrees Celsius in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture on July 23.
- Professor Hisashi Nakamura (Climate Science Research)

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180724/p2a/00m/0na/002000c