Hawaii is a paR&Dise

Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi and his international team of researchers at the University of Hawaii first captured the world’s attention in 1998 with breakthrough cloning research. Cumulina was the first of more than 80 mice cloned using the “Honolulu Technique.”

The next year, the team amazed the world again. Using freeze-dried mouse sperm to fertilize eggs they cloned green mice by a new technique called “Honolulu transgenesis” for transferring genetic information or DNA from one organism into the egg of another. It could lead to improvements in human organ transplants.

Biotechnology, by enhancing the efficiency and adaptability of plant and animal growth, improves and enriches our lives. Hawaii is a world-leader in this field, as it is in other fields of research and development.

Hawaii-based research reaches around the world. Hawaii’s Big Island is home to telescopes from England, France, Canada, and Japan with an astronomy infrastructure to match. University of Hawaii researches collaborated with over 100 other scientists on a program at the Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector in Japan on the remarkable discovery that neutrinos, particles as small as quarks, have mass and can change form.

Not surprisingly, Hawaii is a leader in the development of ocean industries. Our oceans are a living laboratory for marine research and development with clean waters and abundant marine life.

Nutrient-rich ocean waters, pristine environment, and an excellent technical infrastructure, make Hawaii ideal for research and commercial cultivation of many high-value land and ocean plants and animals - including micro-algae, medicinal/nutraceutical herbs, prawn broodstock, and fin fish.

For example, the State’s Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, on the Big Island, is a one of a kind ocean science park in which cutting edge research and development activities in alternate production and aquaculture are undertaken, along with the successful commercial culture of microalgae, shellfish, and other edible marine species.

The Maui High Performance Computing Center, which has one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, is also home to research and development activities in fields that include telemedicine, 3-D animation, advanced imaging, remote sensing, and weather and natural disaster modeling.

Technology

Oahu has the most advanced telecommunications infrastructure in the world. Its location at the center of the Pacific Ocean gives it a virtual monopoly on traffic between Asia and the U.S.

By locating your operations on Oahu, you can do business with New York in the morning and Tokyo in the afternoon, all in the same business day.

Unlike most places that offer only one or two communications technology options, Oahu-based businesses can choose from fiber optic or copper land lines, digital switching, transpacific cable, or satellite access to do business around the world.

According to the Pacific Telecommunications Council, Oahu is one of the best places from which to serve Asian markets, especially if it involves the Internet.

The University of Hawaii is among the top sites for breakthrough research in reproductive biology, oceanography, astronomy and volcanology. Developing a genetically-engineered, disease-free papaya, and a caffeine-free coffee bean are just two of dozens of recent technological developments engineered at the University of Hawaii.

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DBEDT "Hawaii Global Islands"