Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a first cell image of a cell by a first observation method, obtaining a second cell image of the cell by a second observation method that is different from the first observation method, and determining the region of the cell based on the first cell image and the second cell image.

Abstract: A Web browser capable of providing an equivalent quality of user experience to a user even with respect to access of devices differing in processing performance. The web browsing system comprises a Web browser function which is divided between a browsing client unit and a browsing server unit, wherein the browsing client unit notifies a content input to the user terminal to the browsing server unit and displays a Web page on a user terminal by using information supplied from the browsing server unit, and wherein the browsing server unit supplies information necessary for displaying the Web page to the user terminal to the browsing client unit according to the content input to the user terminal notified from the browsing client unit.

Abstract: An organ for transplantation having a kidney, a ureter, and a urinary bladder and an organ structure in which a first ureter, a first urinary bladder, a second ureter and a second urinary bladder are sequentially connected to a kidney can produce urine and excrete the produced urine, and thus is useful for transplantation.

Abstract: For perfusion, blood vessels protruding from a removed organ or tissue and cannulas for circulating perfusate are tightened and bound at positions away from the cut ends of the blood vessels toward a proximal side viewed from the organ. The cut ends of the aforementioned blood vessels that are anastomosed to blood vessels of a living body are spaced from the binding positions at which the cannulas are secured. The direction to the blood vessels of the living body can be conducted while moving the cannulas in various postures relative to the blood vessels protruding from the organ or tissue. This enables performing an anastomosis operation while maintaining the perfusion state. In this way, organs and tissues that include at least one artery route and at least one vein route can be anastomosed to blood vessels of a living body while maintaining the perfusion state.

Abstract: A perfusion device and a perfusion method can allocate two routes of perfusate inflow pathways and two routes of perfusate outflow pathways for a liver graft. The perfusate inflow pathways have perfusate inflow cannulas connected respectively to the portal vein and the hepatic artery. The perfusate outflow pathways have perfusate outflow cannulas connected respectively to the suprahepatic inferior vena cava and the infrahepatic inferior vena cava. Perfusate is allowed to enter the liver from the perfusate inflow cannulas, and the perfusate in the liver is allowed to drain off from the perfusate outflow cannulas. This significantly shortens the time length of the liver graft being in an ischemic condition when the liver is removed or transplanted. That is, the onset of disorder in the liver graft can be suppressed. This increases the success rate of liver transplantation. Thus, deterioration of organ grafts during surgery is prevented in organ transplantation surgery that requires long hours.

Abstract: A mammalian cell suspension prevents pulmonary embolism formation during administration of mammalian cells, such as mammalian stem cells, through a blood vessel, and a preventive agent against pulmonary embolism formation during administration of mammalian cells through a blood vessel. suspending mammalian cells, such as mammalian stem cells, are suspended in a physiological aqueous solution containing trehalose or its derivative, or a salt thereof as an active ingredient to prepare a mammalian cell suspension for preventing pulmonary embolism formation during administration of the mammalian cells through a blood vessel, including the mammalian cells and trehalose or its derivative, or a salt thereof as active ingredients. Examples of the mammalian cells can include pancreatic islet cells, dendritic cells, natural killer cells, alpha/beta T cells, gamma/delta T cells, and cytotoxic T lymphocytes in addition to mammalian stem cells.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for obtaining differentiated cells and/or differentiated cell products, including the steps of: introducing undifferentiated cells into a perfused organ or living tissue; subjecting the undifferentiated cells introduced to perfusion culture together with the organ or living tissue so as to allow the undifferentiated cells to differentiate, thereby obtaining differentiated cells and/or differentiated cell products; collecting a perfusion culture solution that contains the resulting differentiated cells and/or differentiated cell products; and obtaining the differentiated cells and/or differentiated cell products contained in the collected perfusion culture solution.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mammalian stem cell suspension containing mammalian stem cells and at least one polysaccharide such as trehalose, and the like; a mammalian stem cell aggregation inhibitor containing polysaccharide such as trehalose, and the like; a method of suppressing aggregation of mammalian stem cells, containing suspending the mammalian stem cells in an aqueous physiological solution containing polysaccharide; an inhibitor of a decrease in the survival rate of mammalian stem cells containing polysaccharide such as trehalose and the like; a method of suppressing a decrease in the survival rate of mammalian stem cells, containing suspending the mammalian stem cells in an aqueous physiological solution containing polysaccharides, and the like.

Abstract: The point target can be easily and accurately instructed without disturbing the viewability of the point target and its neighboring display information. A touch panel type information terminal device comprises means for displaying on a display screen a touchable pointer comprising a pointer part for instructing a point target that is displayed on a display screen, and an operation part for a user to perform a touch operation, and means for integrally moving a display position of the operation part and the pointer part on the display screen in accordance with the touch operation of the user with respect to the operation part of the touchable pointer.

Abstract: An organ for transplantation having a kidney, a ureter, and a urinary bladder and an organ structure in which a first ureter, a first urinary bladder, a second ureter and a second urinary bladder are sequentially connected to a kidney can produce urine and excrete the produced urine, and thus is useful for transplantation.

Abstract: The present invention provides an artificial kidney precursor containing a non-human mammalian metanephros separated out from a living body, wherein the metanephros has been subjected to freezing and thawing treatments outside a living body, and contains mammalian mesenchymal stem cells transferred outside a living body, and a method of production thereof.

Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a first cell image of a cell by a first observation method, obtaining a second cell image of the cell by a second observation method that is different from the first observation method, and determining the region of the cell based on the first cell image and the second cell image.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide means with which it is possible to efficiently select a vector to which a foreign gene has been introduced when a foreign gene is to be introduced by homologous recombination to a vector having multiple sequences homologous with one another. The vector comprises, in succession, a replication origin, a sequence A, a marker gene X, two sequences C and D for introducing a foreign gene by homologous recombination, and a sequence B homologous with sequence A. The two sequences C and D are directly or indirectly adjacent to one another. The vector is used for introducing a foreign gene between the two adjacent sequences C and D.

Abstract: Methods of washing adherent cells, capable of effectively suppressing cell death due to proteolytic enzyme treatment for detaching the adherent cell from a culture vessel and subsequent cell treatment; cell-washing solutions used for the washing method; methods of producing cell suspensions for transplantation using the cell-washing solution; and kits comprising the cell-washing solution. Trehalose or its derivative or a salt thereof is added to physiological aqueous solutions to prepare cell-washing solutions containing trehalose or its derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient. The cell-washing solutions can be used to wash adherent cells before detaching the adherent cells from a culture vessel by proteolytic enzyme treatment to suppress cell death due to the proteolytic enzyme treatment. The concentration of trehalose applied to the cell-washing solution may be a concentration capable of suppressing the cell death due to the proteolytic enzyme treatment, such as 0.1 to 20 (w/v) %.

Abstract: Provided is a photo-electric power generating device having a great fill factor.

Abstract: Provided are a photo-electric power generating element having a sufficient fill factor, and enabling a manufacturing cost to be reduced, and a manufacturing method therefor. A photo-electric power generating element 10 including: an n-type crystal semiconductor substrate 11; a p-type amorphous silicon thin film 13 overlaid on one face side of the n-type crystal semiconductor substrate 11; and an n-type amorphous silicon thin film 15 overlaid on another face side of the n-type crystal semiconductor substrate 11, in which the photo-electric power generating element 10 further includes an intrinsic amorphous silicon thin film 12 interposed between the n-type crystal semiconductor substrate 11 and the p-type amorphous silicon thin film 13, the n-type crystal semiconductor substrate 11 and the n-type amorphous silicon thin film 15 are directly bonded, and a side on which the n-type amorphous silicon thin film 15 is provided is used as a plane of light incidence.

Abstract: Provided are: a photovoltaic element that achieves an increased electrical efficiency due to having a pyramidal texture provided through etching a silicon substrate without the use of any organic solvent harmful to humans; and a manufacturing method therefor. A photovoltaic element 10 includes: a silicon substrate 11 having a pyramidal texture on the surface thereof, the pyramidal texture including a large number of pyramids and being provided through anisotropic etching; and amorphous silicon thin films 12 to 15 provided on the pyramidal texture through chemical vapor deposition, wherein the average length of diagonals of the square at base of the pyramids is adjusted to less than 5 ?m through selection of etching conditions, the average length of diagonals being defined by the following formula of: average length of diagonals=(2*“area of visual field”/“number of vertices of pyramids found in visual field”)0.5.

Abstract: A Web browser capable of providing an equivalent quality of user experience to a user even with respect to access of devices differing in processing performance. The web browsing system comprises a Web browser function which is divided between a browsing client unit and a browsing server unit, wherein the browsing client unit notifies a content input to the user terminal to the browsing server unit and displays a Web page on a user terminal by using information supplied from the browsing server unit, and wherein the browsing server unit supplies information necessary for displaying the Web page to the user terminal to the browsing client unit according to the content input to the user terminal notified from the browsing client unit.

Abstract: An all-solid-state cell contains a combination of an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and has a plate-shaped fired solid electrolyte body of a ceramic containing a solid electrolyte, a first electrode layer (e.g. a positive electrode) integrally formed on one surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a second electrode layer (e.g. a negative electrode) integrally formed on the other surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte materials added to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer comprise an amorphous polyanion compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a duplexed operation processor control system that includes operation processors, an I/O device, and at least one communication path that couples the operation processors to the I/O device, and at least one communication path that couples the operation processors with each other. The duplexed operation processor control system switches over either of the operation processors to be a primary operation processor that executes a control operation for a control target, and the other to be a secondary operation processor that is in a stand-by state, and the secondary operation processor snoops control data synchronously when the primary operation processor acquires the control data from the control target.