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Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
"The year the journal RNA was founded was slated by some in scientific publishing to be the year that one particular type of RNA's run in the spotlight would end. In 1995 I had recently started as a post-doc with Dieter Söll at Yale when he came into the lab to solemnly inform us all that an editor at a certain (S)cience journal had just told him “we won't be publishing any more tRNA papers.” For a post-doc who had migrated across the Atlantic for the sole purpose of furthering his career by working on tRNA this was not great news, but at least the pizza was as good as promised in New Haven (if you need convincing, try the Italian and Veggie Bombs at Modern Apizza on State Street). Dieter consoled us by saying that plenty of other good journals were still interested in tRNA, plus there was this …"
Recommended Citation
Ibba, M. (2015) Transfer RNA comes of age. RNA 21, 648-649. https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.050179.115
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This article was originally published in RNA, volume 21, in 2015. https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.050179.115