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KRUGER, Kelly

KRUGER, Kelly

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source thepaparazzigamer · Kelly Kruger at the 85th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade in Hollywood · CC BY 3.0

1982 CE

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Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena.

Discovery of ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes). Cech discovered that RNA itself could cut strands of RNA, suggesting that life might have started as RNA. "In the 1970s, Cech had been studying the splicing of RNA in…