• Question: Have you ever been the first person to discover something?? :)

    Asked by morton to Kerstin on 22 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Kerstin Zechner answered on 22 Mar 2010:

      Yes 🙂 I think anyone who works in a lab for at least a few months is bound to discover something new! After about 3 months into my research, we found that in worms the protein responsible for copying RNA from DNA can read into protective elements at the end of chromosomes known as telomeres.

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