Accelerating expansion
- RNA Therapeutics Institute, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
- Corresponding author: erik.sontheimer{at}umassmed.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
Given the day-to-day demands and busy-ness of scientific research and academic life, it is all too easy to forget the benefits of stepping back from time to time to consider the state of our chosen field and how it has progressed over a time span of decades. When I first received Tim Nilsen's request for this piece—which at first I reflexively added to my mental ledger of day-to-day demands!—I did not realize how satisfying it would be to consider how much we have learned across the entire expanse of the RNA field.
I write as someone who, as of the publication of RNA’s inaugural issue in March 1995, was still in the early phases of postdoctoral research. It felt to me then, given all of the RNA science that I had just been taught as a graduate student, like we knew a lot. And I suppose that in some …
