Japanese - Scientist | September 6, 1939 -
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.
Susumu Tonegawa
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At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.
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I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.
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The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
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The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
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We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
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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.
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Humans are very imaginative animals.
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Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
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Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.
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