💉JAXA | Develop artificial blood for cats = contribute to animal health care, the market is world scale =
The research team of Koumatsu Akiyuki Professor of Science and Engineering, Chuo University succeeded in developing artificial blood for cats.
Komatsu et al. First produced genetically modified cat serum albumin and clarified its three-dimensional structure from X-ray crystal structure analysis.
Artificial oxygen carriers are artificial blood that can be administered to living bodies instead of blood transfusions.
In the crystallization of the genetically modified feline serum albumin used for analysis, JAXA is responsible for providing opportunities for protein crystallization experiments, crystallization, and structural analysis, which is being conducted at the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station “Kibo” did.