Alcohol use in combination with ALDH2 mutations or germline changes in the CDH1 gene corresponded to a subset of diffuse-type gastric cancer cases in East Asian individuals.
By participating in the project, the company, located in Tokyo, hopes to improve its cloud-based data management services while winning over new customers.
A Japanese researcher may soon be developing rat and mouse embryos with human cells as part of a plan to eventually develop organs for transplants, according to Nature News.
The teams used different sequencing approaches — one using long reads and the other short reads — to uncover repeat expansions in people with a rare disease.
Mainichi reports that 43 percent of Japanese individuals said they did not want to eat agricultural products that had been modified using gene-editing tools.
