Zitat des Tages von Susumu Tonegawa:
My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.
The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.
After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.
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.
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
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.
