ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Keio University. Keio University is a research-intensive university in Japan with strengths across medicine, life sciences, engineering, information science, economics, and interdisciplinary research. Its researchers contribute to advances in areas including regenerative medicine, neuroscience, cancer, robotics, artificial intelligence, materials science, and public health, linking fundamental discovery with clinical and technological applications.
Beta-2-microglobulin and cystatin C, both already on standard lab menus, tracked future disability in adults over 85 across Japanese and Italian cohorts, pointing to kidney strain and inflammation years before independence slips.