Japan bids to catch up on gene sequencing

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Japan currently has limited DNA sequencing capacity, with many observers attributing Japan's poor performance in genome sequencing to the failure by the government to deal with genome research in a coordinated manner. However, Japan is now making enhanced efforts to develop new technologies in functional genomics, with researchers becoming increasingly aware that the country's genome sequencing work is a long way behind that of the US and the UK.

Chromosome mapping

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Japan may lift industry-academy barrier

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Japan's existing civil service law prevents employees of national universities participating in profit-making activities. However, a new inter-ministerial committee will now consider recommending that this law is relaxed. This development is part of the government's latest job-creation initiative, which aims to create 700,000 jobs by backing rapidly expanding industries and encouraging the commercial application of university research.

Laws, regulations and rules, College teachers, College faculty, Research

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Physicist's dual role could help with Japanese merger

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Akito Arima, former president of Tokyo University and current education minister for Japan, will also be appointed director-general of the Science and Technology Agency (STA). His appointment is expected to increase the success of a merger between the STA and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho). Arima is a physicist and is outspoken in his support of reforms in the organization of Japanese science.

Human resource management, Administrative agencies, Government agencies

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