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Three Companies Commence Joint Research on Fish Breeding

FOOD & LIFE COMPANIES, Inc. (Head office: Suita City, Osaka, President and CEO: Koichi MIZUTOME, hereinafter “F&LC”), which owns restaurant-related businesses such as Sushiro and Kyotaru, and PtBio Inc. (Head office: Higashi-Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, CEO: Keisuke OKUHARA, hereinafter “PtB”), a genome editing technology platform provider, and Regional Fish Corporation (Head Office: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, President: Tadanori UMEKAWA, hereinafter “RF”), which promotes the improvement of marine products through the use of genome editing technology, will begin joint research with three companies on fish breeding using cutting-edge technologies such as genome editing.

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○Press Release (PDF)

○Press Release (PR TIMES)

○F&LC [FY22-FY24 Mid-term Business Plan] (p.31-32)

○F&LC and two university-launched startup companies to edit the genome of fish using domestically produced technology (2021/12/06 Nikkei Shimbun electronic edition)

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