Thomas R. Cech

Nov 2, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Rachel M. Lance |Howard Markel |Thomas R. Cech |Nicola Twilley

These works of science history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever”by Rachel Lance This story of the men and women who provided invaluable submarine and underwater breathing reconnaissance that led to the Allies’ dramatic and history-making success on D-Day is based on top-secret documents only recently declassified.

Jun 7, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Thomas R. Cech

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Jun 7, 2024 | newsfounded.com | Thomas R. Cech

The following is an excerpt from The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets by Thomas R. Cech. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission that helps support our journalism. Buy the BookThe Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest SecretsOn January 10, 2020, Prof. posted. Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University in Shanghai has published the RNA sequence of a new coronavirus on an open-access website.

May 30, 2024 | businesstimes.com.sg | Thomas R. Cech

FROM E=mc² to splitting the atom to the invention of the transistor, the first half of the 20th century was dominated by breakthroughs in physics. Then, in the early 1950s, biology began to nudge physics out of the scientific spotlight – and when I say “biology”, what I really mean is DNA.

May 16, 2024 | wsj.com | Thomas R. Cech

Selected by Thomas R. Cech, the author of ‘The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets.’By Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg (2017)1. Changing the DNA code in a living organism—to correct a genetic disease, for example—was until recently enormously difficult. Then came the discovery of Crispr gene editing, a tool for rewriting DNA with unprecedented speed and accuracy.