On September 27, 2023, Dr. Yoshiro Shimura died of old age in Kyoto, Japan. He was born and grew up in Yamanashi prefecture, near Tokyo. He entered the Department of Botany at Kyoto University and received an MS degree in plant physiology. He then moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey and obtained his PhD in microbiology and molecular biology under the supervision of Professor Henry J. Vogel (Shimura and Vogel 1966). Following that, Dr. Shimura moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Nathans, where he began studying RNA science, which became his life's work. His first major work was an analysis of the protein synthesis of MS2 RNA phage in vitro and in vivo (Shimura et al. 1967). He also determined the genetic map of the MS2 phage …

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向志村芳郎致敬（1932-2023）

2023年9月27日，志村芳郎博士在日本京都因年老去世。他在东京附近的山梨县出生并长大。他进入京都大学植物学系并获得植物生理学硕士学位。随后，他前往新泽西州罗格斯大学，在 Henry J. Vogel 教授的指导下获得微生物学和分子生物学博士学位（Shimura and Vogel 1966）。此后，志村博士转到约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院 Daniel Nathans 博士的实验室担任博士后研究员，在那里他开始研究 RNA 科学，这成为他一生的工作。他的第一个主要工作是在体外和体内分析 MS2 RNA 噬菌体的蛋白质合成（Shimura 等人，1967）。他还确定了 MS2 噬菌体的遗传图谱……