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I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe’s laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what’s going on inside of us.
In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory.
Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.
When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.
Humans are very imaginative animals.
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen.
My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.
