A journey
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for RNA Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Corresponding author: hua.lou{at}case.edu
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Twenty years of the journal RNA, 20 years of RNA research—the journal has witnessed and facilitated an explosive growth of the RNA field, a relatively young field in many ways. Having studied alternative splicing for more than 20 years, it is a great time for me to pause and reflect on what we have learned and still need to learn on this particular topic.
There was heightened excitement when the first issue of RNA was making its way to Sue Berget's laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine where I was conducting part of my postdoctoral research. Only, the excitement was not caused by the anticipated arrival of the journal, although the arrival of this new journal was indeed discussed repeatedly in the laboratory, but by another bigger than usual cleanup of a radioactive material spill in our room specifically reserved for generating and using in vitro RNA splicing substrates. …
