Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Japan As Represented by Director-general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management

Junji Fujimoto

Koichi Watanabe

Eiji Yamamoto

Ryuichiro Tanaka

Takuya Akiyama

Koji Miyazaki

Kazumasa Kimura

Tomoyuki Sako

Harumi Mizukoshi

Yasuhisa Shimakawa

Mika Miura

Takashi Makino

Takahiro Matsuki

Fumiko Nagai

Kazunori Matsuda

Hideyuki Saino

Hiroshi Omura

Tsuyoshi Osanai

Katsuhiro Tomaru

Yukiko Miyamoto

Takeshi Yoshimoto

For providing a method capable of physically and objectively evaluating the consistency and state of a stool, provided is a method for measuring a stool consistency with a texture analyzer provided with a probe, the probe having a shape capable of measuring a consistency of a stool in a liquid form and in a solid form.

Method for measuring stool consistency and method for evaluating stool state using same

A method for producing bacteria belonging to the genushaving excellent viability even under various conditions with different environmental factors, novel bacteria belonging to the genusobtained by the method, and a method for detecting the bacteria are provided. By subculturing and storing bacteria belonging to the genusalternately in systems under conditions with different environmental factors, the bacteria belonging to the genusexhibiting excellent viability under all the conditions used for the alternate subculturing and storing can be produced.

[object Object]

A microorganism capable of degrading an estrogenic substance contained in wastewater and the like; a method for the simple and effective degradation of an estrogenic substance contained in domestic wastewater, wastewater discharged from a livestock farm, or the like by using the microorganism; and an apparatus for achieving the degradation are provided. An estrogenic substance-degrading microorganism which belongs to the genusorand has an ability to degrade an estrogenic substance; a method for the degration of an estrogenic substance by using the microorganism; and an apparatus for achieving the degradation are provided.

Estrogenic substance degradable microorganism and use thereof

The present invention provides an apparatus for extracting nucleic acid from a specimen, including traditionally difficult specimens, in preparation for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. The apparatus includes: a shaker, a centrifugal separator, a particle supply mechanism for supplying particles of different sizes, a liquid chemical supply mechanism, a conveyance arm for transporting the specimen or tube-containing specimen, and a control means. The control means is designed to shake tubes containing large and small diameter particles and transport the tubes through a centrifuge in order to separate the nucleic acid-containing material from the remainder of the specimen and crush the material to extract the nucleic acid.

Nucleic acid extraction device

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Minato-ku, Japan

Junji Fujimoto