About our services

  • Confocal Science Inc. is an integrated service company for protien crystallography. We offer services to solve difficulty in your protein crystallization. We set and work toward the goal.
  •  We have accumulated know-how to grow atomic-resolution crystal of target protein for 3-D structural analysis through Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s project since 2003. 
  •  Confocal Science Co., Ltd. supports protein crystallization experiments in a microgravity environment conducted by space experiment operators around the world by developing crystallization technology and crystallization cells. 
  • Confocal Science Co., Ltd. supports companies around the world conducting protein crystallization experiments in space.


 Information

 
1/11/2024New!!

C-Kit Education/Space is now available.

For more information, please see the pamphlet.

12/23/2023New!!

JAMSS "Kirara#5" left the International Space Station (ISS) on December 22 and returned safely to Earth the following day.

11/10/2023

JAMSS "KIRARA#5" has been installed in the ICE Cubes Facility of Space Applications Services on Columbus Module.

5/26/2023At the "Bioscience in Space" seminar (hosted by Medtech Consulting, LLC), to be held on Thursday, July 13, 2023, Hiroaki Tanaka, Chief Executive Director of Confocal Science Inc, will give a lecture on "Technologies for High-Quality Protein Crystal Growth, from Sample Preparation to Space Experiments".
4/19/2023JAMSS "Kirara#4" left the International Space Station (ISS) on April 15 and returned safely to Earth the following day.
4/1/2023C-Kit GroundPro(XRD)(#CRT101-1) is now available from Cosmo Bio USA
3/18/2023

JAMSS "KIRARA#4" has been installed in the ICE Cubes Facility of Space Applications Services on Columbus Module.

7/28/2022  C-Kit Ground Pro, a logical and low-cost protein crystal growth kit that does not require large-scale screening, is newly released.

C-Kit Ground Pro XRD is for X-ray diffraction experiments.

C-Kit Ground Pro ND is for neutron diffraction experiments. is newly released.

6/11/2022 

Through Diffusion Measurements of Molecules to a Numerical Model for Protein Crystallization in Viscous Polyethylene Glycol Solution

Crystals 2022, 12, 881; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12070881

1/25/2022  JAMSS "KIRARA #3" protein crystallization mission return in SpX-24.
12/22/2021

JAMSS "KIRARA" has been installed in the ICE Cubes Facility of Space Applications Services on Columbus Module.

11/6/2021

Drug Discovery in Space Webinar Series 2021-2022 will be held in:

11/18/2021 What makes microgravity an emerging tool?

1/27/2022 Applications and case studies

3/24/2022 Commercial opportunities & perspectives

Please register for free.

Mr. Tanaka, CED ofConfocal Science, will give a presentation on Jaunary 27th.

For more in formation, please see the pamphlet.

10/28/2021

Novel Device and Strategy for Growing Large, High-Quality Protein Crystals by Controlling Crystallization Conditions

Crystals 2021, 11(11), 1311; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11111311

10/5/2021 JAXA PCG#18 launch in Soyuz space ship from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Confocal Science supply the technical support for this mission.
8/4/2021 A video of "Protein crystallization in a capillary by batch method" is released.
1/13/2021 JAMSS "KIRARA #2" protein crystallization mission return in SpX-21.
12/9/2020

JAMSS "KIRARA" has been installed in the ICE Cubes Facility of Space Applications Services on Columbus Module.

12/7/2020

JAMSS "KIRARA" protein crystallization mission launch in SpX-21 to the ISS. Confocal Science  supply the technical support for this mission.

*Kirara try of cellulase in space for neutron diffraction

*FIRST EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE FOR COVID-19 DRUG RESEARCH WITH KIRARA

12/1/2020

Semi-empirical model to estimate ideal conditions for the growth of large protein crystals 

H. Nakamura et al., Acta Cryst. (2020). D76, 1174-1183; https://doi.org/10.1107/S205979832001445X

9/24/2020 Oral presentation in ISS R&D Conference 2020 Online Series

Oral: Scalable and Robust Capillary Devices for Protein Crystal Growth in Space.

9/18/2020 Confocal Science Co., Ltd. and AXIOM Inc. of the United States have signed a professional service contract for the purpose of crystallization experiment service at the International Space Station.
3/16/2020 First cellulose synthesis by enzyme in space in JAMSS "KIRARA" protein crystallization mission (technical support by Confocal Science)
2/6/2020 JAXA PCG#17 return in Soyuz space ship to Baikonur, Kazakhustan.
1/30/2020 Methods for Obtaining Better Diffractive Protein Crystals: From Sample Evaluation to Space Crystallization.

Y. Hashizume et al., Crystals (2020). 10, 78; doi:10.3390/cryst10020078

1/8/2020 JAMSS "KIRARA" protein crystallization mission return in SpX-19.
12/6/2019 JAXA PCG#17 launch in Progress space cargo from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Confocal Science supply the technical support for this mission.
12/6/2019 JAMSS "KIRARA" protein crystallization mission launch in SpX-19 to the ISS. Confocal Science  supply the technical support for this mission.
7/22/2019 C-Tube LCDM catalog is uploaded.>> C-Tube LCDM catalog
7/20-24/2019

Oral and poster presentation in ACA2019 Annual Meeting in Kentucky USA

Oral : Methods and devices for protein crystal growth in space

Poster : A capillary device for growing large protein crystals

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