The combined use of viral transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory elements to improve baculovirus-mediated transient gene expression in human embryonic stem cells
Juan Du, Jieming Zeng, Ying Zhao, Jerome Boulaire, Shu Wang

An efficient treatment for detoxification process of cassava starch by plant cell wall-degrading enzymes
Somphit Sornyotha, Khin Lay Kyu, Khanok Ratanakhanokchai

Development of a homogeneous competitive immunoassay for phosphorylated protein antigen based on the enhanced fluorescence resonance energy transfer technology
Yoshiyuki Ohiro, Hiroshi Ueda, Norio Shibata, Teruyuki Nagamune

Helvellisin, a novel alkaline protease from the wild ascomycete mushroom Helvella lacunosa
Guoqing Zhang, Hexiang Wang, Xiaoqing Zhang, TziBun Ng

Cloning and characterization of grpE in Acetobacter pasteurianus NBRC 3283
Morio Ishikawa, Akiko Okamoto-Kainuma, Takayuki Jochi, Ikue Suzuki, Kazuaki Matsui, Takayuki Kaga, Yukimichi Koizumi

Elevation of ceramide in Acetobacter malorum S24 by low pH stress and high temperature stress
Shin Ogawa, Hideki Tachimoto, Takayuki Kaga

Effect of oxygen concentration in gas phase on sporulation and individual ganoderic acids accumulation in liquid static culture of Ganoderma lucidum
Wen-Xian Zhang, Jian-Jiang Zhong

Continuous ethanol fermentation from non-sulfuric acid-washed molasses using traditional stirred tank reactors and the flocculating yeast strain KF-7
Yue-Qin Tang, Ming-Zhe An, Ya-Ling Zhong, Morimura Shigeru, Xiao-Lei Wu, Kenji Kida

Enhanced heavy metal phytoextraction by Echinochloa crus-galli using root exudates
Sunghyun Kim, Hyewon Lim, Insook Lee

Effect of Monosaccharides Composing Glycosaminoglycans on Type 2 Collagen Accumulation in a Three-Dimensional Culture of Chondrocytes
Erina Kagita, Masahiro Ikeda, Shigeyuki Wakitani, Mutsumi Takagi

Myogenic induction of human mesenchymal stem cells by culture on dendrimer-immobilized surface with d-glucose display
Mee-Hae Kim, Masahiro Kino-oka, Atsuhiro Saito, Yoshiki Sawa, Masahito Taya

Onset timing of transient gene expression depends on cell division
Kazumi Hakamada, Satoshi Fujita, Jun Miyake

Proliferative effects on neural stem/progenitor cells of a sulfated polysaccharide purified from the sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus
Yuejie Zhang, Shuliang Song, Di Song, Hao Liang, Weili Wang, Aiguo Ji

A mass separation of chondrocytes from cartilage tissue utilizing an automatic crushing device
Mutsumi Takagi, Hiromichi Yoshioka, Shigeyuki Wakitani

In vitro generation of anti-hepatitis B monoclonal antibodies from a single plasma cell using single-cell RT-PCR and cell-free protein synthesis
Yunita Sabrina, Muhamad Ali, Hideo Nakano

Optimization of a real-time PCR assay to quantitate airborne fungi collected on a gelatin filter
Naomichi Yamamoto, Minoru Kimura, Hideaki Matsuki, Yukio Yanagisawa

Pyrolysis GC-MS-based metabolite fingerprinting for quality evaluation of commercial Angelica acutiloba roots
Sukanda Tianniam, Takeshi Bamba, Eiichiro Fukusaki

Semi-quantitative discrimination of HBV mutants using allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization with Handy Bio-Strand
Harumi Ginya, Junko Asahina, Rumiko Nakao, Yohko Tamada, Masaaki Takahashi, Masafumi Yohda, Hiroshi Yatsuhashi

Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize

Young Asian Biotechnologist Form