The long unfinished march towards understanding microRNA-mediated repression
- 1Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel and University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
- 2Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Research Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A3 Canada
- Corresponding authors: witold.filipowicz{at}fmi.ch; nahum.sonenberg{at}mcgill.ca
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After 20 years, we can now really speak of a mature RNA. Congratulations!
The teens can be a time of hesitant development for a journal but leaving this period behind may also mean questions and difficult decisions: Should the format and focus remain the same or adjust to research trends? How can the competitive advantage to attract important papers in the field be maintained? Will the research area grow and remain exciting and relevant?
In particular the latter question should not worry a journal like RNA. In the mid-'90s, following the discoveries of mosaic genes and splicing, catalytic RNA, and RNA editing, it seemed rather unlikely that nature (and RNA) would continue to surprise us with even more secrets of comparable caliber. We were entirely wrong! The last 20 years have witnessed at least as many surprising discoveries in the RNA field as the two preceding decades. The …
