Rediscovering RNA.

نویسنده

  • Anna Marie Pyle
چکیده

One of the things that I find intriguing about RNA science is that each successive generation of investigators seems to rediscover RNA, and to harbor the conviction that they have revealed its significance and unique attributes for the very first time. This is a good thing—as each generation of RNA scientists feels “ownership” for a fundamental aspect of our understanding, and this has resulted in a collegial, multigenerational and continually exciting field of research. Either because I am getting old or I have spent toomany years teaching Molecular Biology to undergraduates, I enjoy looking for the strands that connect the discoveries of the present with insights from the past. While we tend to think of RNA as a “new science,” nothing could be farther from the truth. Olke Uhlenbeck used to tell me that “we already learned everything from tRNA,” and I just thought he was being grumpy. But in many cases, he was right. We have come a long way in the last 70 years, when RNA science bloomed in places like postwar Cambridge and Manhattan, and I’d like to share a few of the strands connecting past and present that come to mymind when I think about my favorite, but by no means comprehensive, milestones in RNA science:

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • RNA

دوره 21 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015