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Disfunctioning a gene: Increasing its related functionality?*
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka Usually, when a part...

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20242 min read


What is "genome editing"*
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka In 1996, the ban on...

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20243 min read


Production by Plants: The ultimate option for low-cost and human-friendly biopharmaceuticals!*
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka The leading cause of...

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20242 min read


Non-edible genetically modified plants: Their pros and cons?*
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka There has been a...

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20242 min read


What are Japan's selling points? *
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka The number of...

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20242 min read


Scientific views of life and death!
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka Everyone would want...

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20243 min read


Life's purpose begins at seventy!
Hirokazu Kobayashi CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc. Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, University of Shizuoka People's gestures, speech, and voices do not change much after 55 years, whereas faces and personalities change so much that it is hard to tell who they are. Recently, I attended a seventy-year-old alumni association in my junior high school. “Seventy-year-old” is called “古稀 (koki)” in Japanese. "古稀 (koki)" is said to originate from a line in Du Fu's (712-770) s

Hirokazu Kobayashi
May 6, 20243 min read
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