National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Jointly Develops Ricin Detection Technology with National Police Agency.Tokyo, Japan, Oct 4, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - The Glyco-Informatics Team, an in-house research unit of the Research Center for Advanced Bionics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (産業技術総合研究所 (AIST), has developed the world's first highly-sensitive, fast ricin (known as RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. 60, caster bean-based biotoxin) detection technology, in collaboration with the Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science An ateeached National Police Agency in Japan.
The technology utilizes AIST's proprietary carbohydrate ligand to detect even 15ng of ricin, 1/10,000 the amount of lethal dose, in just 10 minutes, and, with combined use of three synthesized sugar derivatives fixed on a toxin sensor chip, identifies RCA60 and RCA120, similarly structured recin agglutinin Agglutinin A substance that will cause a clumping of particles such as bacteria or erythrocytes. Of major importance are the specific or immune agglutinins, which are antibodies that will agglutinate bacteria containing the corresponding antigens on their . Going forward, AIST will continue to work on easy-to-use detection kits in a national project sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Source: JCN http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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