Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.