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Yano Lab
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A food molecular function lab that explores, at the molecular level, how food components act on cells.
AboutAbout the lab
How food components act on the body, explored at the molecular level.
The Yano Lab studies, at the molecular level, how components contained in food act on the body.
Its specialties are food molecular function and nutrigenetics, and it conducts its research as a member of the Food and Life Science lab seminar (Hara Lab) in the School of Human Sciences.
The lab pays particular attention to autophagy, the process by which cells break down their own components and rebuild them.
It investigates how processing such as fermentation changes this activity, aiming to lead to extended healthy life expectancy.
Key terms
- Autophagy
- A process by which cells break down components inside themselves that are no longer needed and rebuild them as materials
- Nutrigenetics
- A field that investigates how what we eat changes the way genes function
- Food molecular function
- A field that investigates how food components act inside the body, at the level of molecular mechanisms
NewsLab news
A presentation involving Lecturer Yano won an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology
A presentation involving Lecturer Yano won a Topics Award at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Nutrition and Food Science
Cell experiments showed that electrolyzed hydrogen water may enhance the effectiveness of anticancer drugs
Functional Food Factors, which includes a co-authored chapter on autophagy research in food functional science, has been published
A presentation involving Lecturer Yano won an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at JAACT2025 of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab analyzes, at the molecular level, how foods and food components change the functions of cells. Focusing especially on autophagy, it examines in both cultured cells and animals how processing such as fermentation changes its activity.
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- LecturerSatoshi Yano
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Saccharomyces cerevisiae 100x phase-contrast microscopy” Pilarbini / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Activating cellular cleanup with fermented foods: “Natto mixed by Kinchan1” Kinchan1 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hara Lab): “Garlic bulbs and cloves” Ivar Leidus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kohyama Lab): “Human Brain Organoid” Nreis1 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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