Tom Cech leads RNA splicing dance
As part of BioFrontiers Institute Professor John Rinn’s biochemistry class, this week graduate students performed anÌýRNA splicing interpretive danceÌýon the west lawn of the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Nobel Laureate and BioFrontiers Director Tom CechÌý(in the tie-dyeÌýT-shirt) played the starring role of the catalytic G, since he discovered and won the Nobel Prize for it. The balloons represent different parts of genes—purple are exons and green are introns.
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