Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily determine a presence or absence of ketosis and/or the possibility of ketosis in an animal on site or the like. Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for performing the determination. A method for determining ketosis according to one embodiment of the present invention includes providing gas detection means with a gas generated from a body fluid collected from an animal (except for humans), and determining ketosis of the animal based on a composition of the gas generated from the body fluid using a response of the gas detection means to the gas generated from the body fluid.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily evaluate silage fermentation quality on site or the like. In one embodiment of the present invention, a gas generated from silage is applied to a surface stress sensor, and the amount of either one of organic acids and nitrogen-containing compounds contained in the silage is determined. The surface stress sensor can detect trace components in a gas by a simple device configuration and in simple procedures. Therefore, by utilizing the fact that relationship between the content of these components and the fermentation quality is known, the evaluation of fermentation quality can be easily realized by the above measurement.

Abstract: Provided are a skin disease analysis program, a skin disease analysis method, a skin disease analyzer, and a skin disease analysis system, which can analyze skin disease more accurately.

Abstract: An individual-identifying communication system of the present invention comprises: plural light-emitting devices; an imaging device; a display device capable of displaying an image based on image data obtained by said imaging device; a selection device for selecting a predetermined area within the displayed image; a storage device storing plural identification information data for specifying a mobile terminal to communicate with, each of the identification information data being associated with a unique data indicating a lighting pattern of each light-emitting device; an acquisition device acquiring acquisition lighting pattern data from the image data from the imaging device; a determination device determining the unique data corresponding to the acquisition lighting pattern data, based on the acquisition lighting pattern data acquired from selection area image data and plural unique data; and a communication device communicating with a mobile terminal assigned with identification information data correspond

Abstract: An individual-identifying communication system of the present invention comprises an imaging device; a display device capable of displaying an image based on image data obtained by said imaging device; a selection device for selecting a predetermined area within the displayed image; a storage device storing plural standard face information data and plural identification information data for specifying a mobile terminal to communicate with, each of the identification information data being associated with each standard face information data; an acquisition device acquiring acquisition face information data from image data; a standard face information data determination device determining the standard face information data corresponding to the acquisition face information data, based on the acquisition face information data acquired from selection area image data and plural standard face information data; and a communication device communicating with a mobile terminal assigned with identification information da

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide ES cells and mammals having enhanced RNAi effect, which can be used to analyze gene functions at an individual level. The present invention provides ES cells having enhanced RNAi effect, which are obtained by performing genetic manipulation on ES cells.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to develop a novel method for producing mammals such as mice having an RNAi phenotype, thereby enabling the production of RNAi-expressed progenies by a new mechanism to transfer information to progenies, and to improve a method for introducing dsRNA to improve the efficiency of obtaining mammals such as mice having an RNAi phenotype. The present invention provides a method for producing a non-human mammal with suppressed function of a target gene, which comprises injecting the double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) of the garget gene into the nucleus of a cell.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to improve a method for introducing dsRNA, so as to improve the efficiency of obtaining mammals such as mice having an RNAi phenotype. The present invention provides a method for producing a non-human mammal wherein the function of a target gene is suppressed, which comprises introducing into cells a papilloma virus vector into which the target gene has been incorporated.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide ES cells and mammals having enhanced RNAi effect, which can be used to analyze gene functions at an individual level. The present invention provides ES cells having enhanced RNAi effect, which are obtained by performing genetic manipulation on ES cells.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transgenic animal which is useful in a test for forecasting fetal toxicity and teratogenicity of drugs. The present invention provides a transgenic non-human animal or a part thereof wherein several foreign (human-type) proteins which are involved in the drug metabolism or mutant proteins thereof are expressed in the body; a recombinant gene which is useful for the production of said non-human animal; and a method for screening a substance having fetal toxicity and teratogenicity using said non-human animal.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve a method for introducing dsRNA in such a way that RNAi effect is sustained in mammalian (mainly mouse) cells for a long period of time. The present invention provides a recombinant gene which contains inverted repeats of a target gene which can be expressed in mammalian cells.