An origin story: ribozyme catalysis by the ribosome
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Corresponding author: Jackman.14{at}osu.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
The answer to the question “What does your lab do?” from non-scientist friends, strangers, or family members often requires some explanation. For me (as with many in the RNA field), the answer to this question typically requires an immediate simplification, often starting with “Well, you have heard of DNA? We study RNA, which is similar…”. Contemporary science outreach and education seems to have successfully made the larger non-scientific world generally aware of the critical roles for DNA in the fascinating biology that we all know of as life. Yet it often remains necessary to explain that there is “another” nucleic acid that plays equal, and for many of us, arguably even more important, roles in the function of living things. In the same way, a journal that focuses explicitly on RNA fulfills this critical function even among scientists. For 20 years, the RNA journal has provided the RNA community with …
