Get lucky

• Autores: Bob Holmes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3035, 2015, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The extra gene turns the flowers white. This surprising finding was made independently in the early 19905 by two plant biologists, Richard Jorgensen in the US and Joseph Mol in the Netherlands. Neither dismissed the finding as an error. They suspected they'd found something big, and they had: an entirely new way in which cells regulate gene expression, now called RNA interference. RNAi has since been the subject of a Nobel prize, has saved lives and promises to save many more. Here, Holmes examines whether serendipity can be learned