2022/09/08
Kobayashi Lab. appeared in NHK's TV program "Ashita ga Kawaru Trisetsu Show" and cooperated in taking biophoton imaging pictures of the face.

2021/07/18
Kobayashi Lab participated in Science-Day 2021 (Online) and introduced biophoton measurement of the human body.

2019/11/21
Shiseido issued a news release  regarding the results of joint research project with the Kobayashi Laboratory.

2019/07/24
The article entitled “Imaging of ultraweak photon emission for evaluating the oxidative stress of human skin” is published online in J Photochemistry and Photomiology B:Biology.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2019.111562

2019/07/19
Kobayashi Lab. recieved Science-day AWARD「IEEE Sendai WIE」 in Science-day 2019.

2019/06/12
The article entitled “Non-invasive visualization of physiological changes of insects during metamorphosis based on biophoton emission imaging” is published online in Scientific Reports.　www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45007-3; doi:10.1038/s41598-019-45007-3

2018/06/07
Collaborative reseach with Shiseido Company was introduced in Japanese several media.

2018/03/04
B4 student Syoko Usui has received the award from Hatakeyama Culture Foundation in MEXT science In-colle.

2018/02/01
B4 student Syoko Usui was nominated as aspeaker in MEXT Science In-colle.

2017/02/01
B4 student Mr. Torai Iwasa was nominated as a speaker in MEXT Science In-colle.

B3 student Ms. Syoko Usui was nominated as a poster presenter in MEXT Science In-colle.

2016/09/30
The article of biophoton spectroscopy is highlighted in Atlas of Science. (Twitter, Facebook)

2016/04/07
The article entitled "Polychromatic spectral pattern analysis of ultra-weak photon emissions from a human body" is published online in J. Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.

2016/03/18
B4 student Mr. Kosuke Aoki has received the best student award from The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan Tohoku branch.

2016/03/05
B3 student Mr. Torai Iwasa was nominated as a poster presenter in MEXT Science In-colle.

2015/12/10
The article entitled "Ultrasound-enhanced chemiluminescence tomography in biological tissue " is published online in Ultrasonics Sonochmistry.

2015/03/20
B4 student Mr. Kuon Togashi has received the best paper award from The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.

2015/01/12
The article entitled "Optical tomography of fluorophores in dense scattering media based on ultrasound-enhanced chemiluminescence" is published online in Applied Physics Letters.

2014/09/08
PhD student Mr Aditya Kumar from Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic started research stay at Kobayashi Lab as 3 months internship program.

2014/07/16
Dr. Ankush Prasad joined the research project as a postdoctoral researcher.

2013/09/27
Dr. Michal Cifra from Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic visited Kobayashi Lab.

2013/06/21
Prof. Kobayashi was invited to "Conference on Ultra-weak Photon Emission From Living Systems" and gave a plenary lecture.

2013/06/19
The research project entitled "Study on non-invasive imaging technique of oxidative stress" is accepted as a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology, Japan (MEXT)-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities.

2013/02/20
Biophoton lab received TV coverage from NHK program"Science ZERO" It aired on Feb. 17th.

2012/09/01
Dr. Trinh Quang Duc joined Hanoi University of Science and Technology, appointed a lecturer.

2012/03/19
Trinh Quang Duc, a student from Vietnam, received Ph. D. degree in engineering from Tohoku Institute of Technology.

2009/08/25
An article of the study of biophoton imaging of human body was sited on Science Links Japan

2009/07/22
An interview article of the study of biophoton imaging of human body was sited on the Yahoo News[pdf 567k], LiveScience, FoxNews, U.S.News, AOLNews, Slashdot

2009/07/17
An article of biophoton imaging of human body was sited on the Gurdian News http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/17/human-bioluminescence