{"id":512660,"date":"2026-03-01T22:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:30:40","slug":"how-japan-is-revolutionising-healthcare-with-personalised-genetic-data-and-targeted-exosome-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512660\/","title":{"rendered":"How Japan is revolutionising healthcare with personalised genetic data and targeted exosome therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published on                 23\/02\/2026 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+1\u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     15:51\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>At Genequest Inc. in Tokyo, Takahashi Shoko, Director and Founder, is building one of Asia\u2019s largest DNA databases. By offering accessible saliva-based testing, Takahashi aims to shift healthcare from a &#8220;one-size-fits-all&#8221; model to personalised prevention, allowing individuals to improve their health and lifestyle while identifying genetic risks for diseases such as cancer and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the Institute of Science Tokyo in Yokohama, Yamayoshi Asako, Professor, Life Science and Technology, is &#8220;hijacking&#8221; exosomes, the body\u2019s natural cellular messengers, to deliver drugs directly to tumours. This &#8220;Exhijack-Oligo&#8221; method could bypass the side effects of traditional chemotherapy by using the patient&#8217;s own cells as &#8220;taxis.&#8221; According to Professor Hamamoto Yasuo, this breakthrough significantly reduces manufacturing costs and time while offering a vital lifeline for severe conditions like gastric cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 23\/02\/2026 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+1\u2022Updated 15:51 At Genequest Inc. in Tokyo, Takahashi Shoko, Director and Founder, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500,941,14262,1679,10164,118512],"class_list":["post-512660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-japan","tag-medical-research","tag-medicine","tag-new-technologies","tag-research-on-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}