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
| 11/10/2023New!! | JAMSS "KIRARA#5" has been installed in the ICE Cubes Facility of Space Applications Services on Columbus Module. |
| 5/26/2023 | At 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". |
| 4/19/2023 | JAMSS "Kirara#4" left the International Space Station (ISS) on April 15 and returned safely to Earth the following day. |
| 4/1/2023 | C-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.
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| 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.
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| 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 |
