1/25/2022New!! | 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 |