Caps and tales
- Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Corresponding author: jmc71{at}case.edu
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Happy birthday RNA! Twenty years—wow how time flies! I feel like I grew up (scientifically) with RNA. Back when the journal started in 1995, I was just a first year graduate student in Marv Wickens’ lab. Having only been in the lab three months, I still remember all of us huddled in Marv's office when that first issue came out. Marv, as one of the first group of associate editors, was naturally very proud of this accomplishment. We didn't have PDFs back then and no library had a subscription to RNA, so each of us had to take turns looking through Marv's copy. Of course, since it was his copy and the first of its kind we were terrified of ripping a page. I wonder how my future would have turned out if I had torn right through Olke Uhlenbeck's perspective on “Keeping RNA Happy.” Probably nothing. …
