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CECH, Thomas Robert (1947 – )

CECH, Thomas Robert (1947 – )

1947 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Jane Gitschier · Gitschier J. (2005) "Meeting a Fork in the Road: An Interview with Tom Cech". PLoS Genetics 1 (6): e76. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0010076 doi:info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.0010076.g001 · CC BY 2.5

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…