Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024(english.kyodonews.net)

166 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 42 comments

World’s first drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials(globalnews.ca)

37 points by stanislavb 3 years ago | 5 comments

Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine(japantimes.co.jp)

66 points by nogajun 1 year ago | 13 comments

Japan's Space One rocket explodes shortly after launch(japantimes.co.jp)

30 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 6 comments

1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo(mainichi.jp)

118 points by pologreen 3 years ago | 85 comments

Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years(japantimes.co.jp)

249 points by rgovostes 10 months ago | 200 comments

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.

Robot dentist performs first human procedure(newatlas.com)

330 points by voxadam 2 years ago | 350 comments

New Atlas article reporting that a fully automatic robot dentist performed the world's first dental procedure on a human patient.

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries(tech.supercarblondie.com)

663 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 175 comments

Tech news article about a Japanese method that recovers up to 90% of the lithium from used electric vehicle batteries.

China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024(japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

116 points by mushstory 13 days ago | 98 comments

Yomiuri Shimbun news article reporting that China surpassed the U.S. as the world's top R&D spender in 2024, citing Japanese science ministry data.

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners(aljazeera.com)

120 points by mikhael 1 month ago | 323 comments

Al Jazeera article on Japan raising requirements for permanent residency and tightening rules for foreigners amid a rightward political shift.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.