From exotic to exciting
- Center for RNA Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4973, USA
- Corresponding author: exj13{at}case.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
The last 20 years coincide almost perfectly with the time I have been working on RNA. I would therefore like to take a very personal view over that time and abstain from talking about specific results of either our work or the many insights from others that have impacted our field—RNA helicases. The science is frequently discussed in reviews.
What often goes unnoted are opportunities brought by new methods or equipment. In fact, it was a piece of equipment that motivated me to work on RNA. In 1993 I had started my PhD studies at the Chemistry Department of the Technical University Dresden, at the newly minted Biochemical Institute. Dresden is in the former East Germany, and at this time the political adjustments in Germany were still ongoing. There was not a lot of money to go around to equip the new institute with both people and instruments. However, there …
