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RNA as 'Robin to DNA's Batman'

Jul 29, 2011

This week, The New York Times' Dennis Overbye examines the work of researchers who are "trying to construct Life As We Don't Know It in a thimbleful of liquid," particularly that of Gerald Joyce at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. In this Times video, Overbye discusses Joyce's RNA-focused approach:

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