Teijin and Australia’s Cell Therapies Form Strategic Partnership for Cell & Gene Therapy CDMO Business Across Asia-Pacific

Source:Teijin Limited & Cell Therapies Pty Ltd.“Strategic Business Alliance on Cell and Gene Therapy CDMO in the Asia-Pacific Region” (October 1, 2025)Official Press Release PDF (Japanese) 🌏 Overview On October 1, 2025, Teijin Limited (Osaka, Japan; President: Tetsushige Uchikawa) and Cell Therapies Pty Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia; CEO: Bev Menner) announced that they have signed a … Read more

Japan’s Ministry of Health Issues New Safety Guideline for Regenerative Medicine — “Microbiological Safety of Specified Cell-Processed Products”

Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Japan“Guideline on the Microbiological Safety of Specified Cell-Processed Products” (Issued October 6, 2025)(Official PDF, Japanese)MHLW Regenerative Medicine Information Portal 🩺 OverviewOn October 6, 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) released a new national guideline titled“Guideline on the Microbiological Safety of Specified Cell-Processed Products.” This … Read more

Kyoto University Keeps Winning Nobel Prizes — Japan’s “Free Spirits” of Science

「ノーベル賞、科学系は京大卒が10人となり最多　『まだ底力ある』」「京都大学、やっぱり我々はまだきちんと底力を持っているんだなと、自分で言うのも変ですけれど、心から誇り高い気持ちでいっぱい」— Asahi Shimbun via Yahoo! News Japan, news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/1ea6eebf935d4b11f4005bc819f1334265052448 Japan’s Academic Powerhouse Does It AgainKyoto University, Japan’s famously independent-minded institution, has done it again — producing not one but two Nobel Prize laureates in 2025:Shimon Sakaguchi (Physiology or Medicine) and Susumu Kitagawa (Chemistry). With their wins, Kyoto University now boasts 10 Nobel laureates in the sciences … Read more

Final English Article (with Japanese Source Citation Up Front)

「ノーベル生理学・医学賞、坂口志文氏ら３人 『制御性Ｔ細胞』特定」授賞理由は「末梢免疫寛容に関する発見」で、自己免疫疾患やがん治療に新たな可能性を開いた。 — Reuters Japan, jp.reuters.com Japan’s “Immune Peacekeeper” Wins the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine When your immune system gets confused, it can wage war — not on viruses, but on you.Luckily, a calm and persistent Japanese scientist has spent decades figuring out how to stop that friendly fire. On October 6 2025, the … Read more