In the early 1970s, Edwin Southern, a young investigator with Peter Walker's group in Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh) was deeply immersed in the problem of characterizing the two 5S ribosomal RNA ...
RNA has never been 'easy' to work with—compared to DNA, it's a biochemical primadonna, requiring the cleanest conditions and the utmost care in handling. This has been known for decades, but even with ...