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There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary to the other approaches which have developed over the same period.

RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex.

Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.