Dialogue between Katalin Kariko and Professor Yamanaka
Since last year, Katalin Kariko became a Nobel Prize candidate, and it
will be a dialogue between the candidate and the winner, but the dialogue
between the two was recently rebroadcasted by NHK.
Professor Yamanaka: "In fact, after I gave a
lecture, a plant expert came to talk to me, and I was told that the story is a
matter of course in the plant world, so I thought I might be able to do what I
was doing really."
Katalin Kariko : "Please tell the young people about that story."
It sounds casual, but it's an important story that Professor Yamanaka cut
out because he wanted to see how the other person reacts to this story
in a dialogue with Katalin Kariko , while Katalin Kariko grasps the point
of this story and understands that young people who will be responsible
for the future will get important hints when they struggle with research,
and answer "to the young peopleh
Repetition of detailed work is important for important
inventions and discoveries, but knowing common sense in other departments can
pave the way, so it will be a dialogue that tells you how important free
discussions across academic fields or across countries are.
The life of plants depends on the type, but it is said that the longest
one is much longer than humans, the ginkgo tree of Zoshigaya Kishimogin is over 600 years old, and the ginkgo tree in Kamakura Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine is over 1,000 years old. Recent research on improving species through genome analysis is progressing
greatly, and we may be able to apply to humans of the characteristics of
this ginkgo tree.
Nowadays, animals are commonly used to solve human
problems, but it seems important for plants to work with the same idea for
animals.
In this article, I would like more young people to remember that there
was such a dialogue according to Katalin Kariko's advice on Professor Yamanaka's
hint.
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