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Itakura was born in Tokyo, and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Organic Chemistry there.
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Keiichi Itakura
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In 1975, Itakura joined City of Hope. He was part of a team of scientists including Arthur Riggs who invented recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid technology. Specifically, Itakura synthesized the gene for somatostatin and inserted it into East. Coli.
This was the first demonstration of a foreign gene inserted into East. Coli.
