The article points out that the capacity of Kumamoto University’s Institute of Resource Development and Analysis to produce genetically modified mice for domestic and overseas research institutes has been impaired.
“Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka, professor at Kyoto University, has asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to extend state support to the Kumamoto institute. State-affiliated research institute Riken is considering giving researchers at the Kumamoto institute access to its gene analysis equipment.”
