Shinoda Taketo

CUBICStars is a Japanese biotechnology company specializing in advanced 3D tissue clearing and whole-organ imaging technologies. Founded by Dr. Taketo Shinoda and based on research from the University of Tokyo and RIKEN, the company utilizes its proprietary CUBIC platform to provide high-resolution, three-dimensional visualization of biological structures. The CUBIC technology allows for the rapid clearing of tissues, making them transparent for light-sheet microscopy and enabling the comprehensive analysis of cellular distributions and vascular networks within intact organs. CUBICStars offers contract research services and specialized reagents to pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions to accelerate drug discovery and basic research. Their solutions are particularly valuable in neuroscience and oncology for overcoming the limitations and sampling biases of traditional 2D histological sectioning.