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Oriental Yeast was founded in 1929 as Japan's first Bakers’ yeast manufacturer. Since that time it have expanded from providing a variety of food products, starting with yeast, into the animal feed and then biotechnology businesses.
OYC is dedicated to providing the highest quality ingredients to the food and bakery industry and thus invest significant resources to continually develop its ingredient related technologies.
OYC’s core technologies in biotechnology involve in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo with molecular biology or genetic technology as the foundation. Due to the company history in yeast , OYC has made efforts to create current business on the technologies originated from research of yeast. OYC is one of the major providers of high valued products and services to aid drug development and life science research in Japan and overseas. OYC also offer various products and services to pharmaceutical companies such as laboratory animals, feed, culture substrates, safety and pharmacological/therapeutic testing and laboratory animal care. The company has received high acclaim for its precision and reliability in this segment. In recent years it has addressed the need for additional support services for pharmaceutical research by offering genetically modified animals and genetic analysis services. In addition, OYC biochemical such as recombinant enzymes, recombinant human proteins, coenzymes, substrates, and antibodies are used around the world as raw materials in manufacturing of diagnostic reagents. Furthermore, some of our coenzymes (cofactors) are used in manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) through bio-catalysis.