Press Releases 2021

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 during Tokyo 2020 via wastewater　―Wastewater-based epidemiological tracking of COVID-19 in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic village showed that SARS-CoV-2 was present in areas without diagnosed individuals―

COVID-19: Omicron displays reduced pathogenicity in hamster model

Development of an accurate and rapid diagnostic method for COVID-19 using CRISPR-Cas3－Paper test strip results are possible within 40 minutes－

B-cell signaling factors essential for immunological memory in infections and vaccines discovered

Tracing the emergence of primordial germ cells from bilaminar disc rabbit embryos and pluripotent stem cells

Gut Microbiota Induces the Secretion of Maternal Antibodies in Breastmilk

The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo and IBM jointly developed a SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis and visualization system to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 in Japan

Preclinical evaluation for engraftment of CD34+ cells gene-edited at the sickle cell disease (SCD) locus in xenograft mouse and non-human primate models

Sustained fetal hemoglobin induction in vivo is achieved by BCL11A interference and co-expressed truncated erythropoietin receptor