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 people”

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 1000 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.