{"id":83732,"date":"2018-08-28T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=83732"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:08:09","slug":"yanagimachi-inaugural-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/yanagimachi-inaugural-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned fertility researcher celebrated at inaugural symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msXW9lzv68g?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83761\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manoa-yanagimachi-r-lab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"364\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manoa-yanagimachi-r-lab.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manoa-yanagimachi-r-lab-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryuzo Yanagimachi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibr.hawaii.edu\/343-2\/emeritis-ryuzo-yanagimachi\/\"><strong>Ryuzo Yanagimachi<\/strong><\/a>, known by colleagues as &ldquo;Dr. Yana,&rdquo; is an internationally-renowned fertility researcher, whose development of the &ldquo;Honolulu Technique&rdquo; to create the world&#8217;s first cloned mouse brought international acclaim to the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>. In August 1998, the achievement was featured in news articles around the world.<\/p>\n<p>On August 27&#8212;20 years later and on Yanagimachi&#8217;s 90th birthday&#8212;the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/tropicalmedicine\/?event=yanagimachi-symposium\">inaugural Yanagimachi Symposium<\/a> convened at the Sullivan Conference Center at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (<abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>). Topics of scientific sessions, which ran throughout the day, included in vitro fertilization (<abbr>IVF<\/abbr>), genetics and genome editing.<\/p>\n<p>Yanagimachi founded the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibr.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute for Biogenesis Research<\/a>, part of <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>, in 2000. Long before that, he had toiled in laboratories devising the reproductive science that led to assisted fertilization in vitro.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have always been curious about nature, about the wonder of life, since I was a boy.<br \/>\n&#8212;Ryuzo Yanagimachi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the early 1960&#8217;s, as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of the world-renowned M.C. Chang of the Worcester Foundation of Experimental Biology, Massachusetts, Yanagimachi put rodent eggs and sperm in a petri dish under the lenses of a microscope and watched the sperm enter into the egg. It was the first time that had been done with rodents.<\/p>\n<p>This <abbr>IVF<\/abbr> was the beginning of his and other scientists&#8217; analytical studies of fertilization in mammals, eventually including humans.<\/p>\n<p>What inspired him then? &ldquo;I have always been curious about nature, about the wonder of life, since I was a boy,&rdquo; Yanagimachi said recently.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/scientific-meeting-august-27-will-celebrate-yana-the-professor-who-cloned-the-worlds-first-mouse\/\"><abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_83763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83763\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manoa-yanagimachi-r-magazine.jpg\" alt=\"magazine story titled &quot;The Mice That Roar&quot;\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manoa-yanagimachi-r-magazine.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manoa-yanagimachi-r-magazine-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Newsweek<\/em> and <em>Time<\/em> magazines were among the publications worldwide reporting on the first cloned mice created at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trailblazing genetics work of Ryuzo Yanagimachi was honored at a day-long event at the John A. 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