A group of Japanese researchers says it has succeeded in creating a functional "mini heart," using embryonic stem cells from a mouse.

The group at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, led by Professor Ishino Fumitoshi, cultivated the ES cells by adding a special protein called laminin.

A company by the name of SB Motorsport located 50 miles east of London has announced it is building an insane Nissan Navara with the powertrain of a GT-R.

The Japanese minister in charge of coronavirus measures says the government's emergency economic package will include measures to increase production of heart-lung machines.

Economic Revitalization Minister Nishimura Yasutoshi met on Thursday with Doctor Takeda Shinhiro, an expert on ECMO machines that replace the functions of the heart and lungs.

A survey by Japanese doctors shows a majority of patients who underwent therapy with a heart-lung machine are recovering from serious conditions caused by the new coronavirus.

The survey shows at least 23 coronavirus patients across Japan had received the treatment involving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, also known as ECMO.

A Japanese group of researchers says it has conducted heart surgery using sheets of heart muscle cells made from iPS cells.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are created from reprogrammed human cells and can develop into various kinds of body tissue.