Reflections on the RNA world
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
- Corresponding author: mihaela.zavolan{at}unibas.ch
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The authors of these reflections are a generation apart, yet their career paths have much in common. After training in medicine, they both followed the call of “real science” to discover a passion for the world of RNAs, a little corner of which they are now exploring jointly. This is a brief account of these meanderings.
Walter Keller: For me the turning point came when, as a resident in human genetics, I read Jim Watson's 1965 “Molecular Biology of the Gene,” which was a thrilling revelation. After a circuitous postdoctoral journey via the Johns Hopkins University Medical School and the National Institutes of Health I was appointed a Senior Staff Investigator in the Tumor Virus Group of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which was directed by Jim Watson. I worked with such illustrious colleagues as Bob Crouch, Ashley Dunn, Joe Sambrook, Phil Sharp, John Arrand, Rich Roberts, Bill Sugden and …
