title: How a chemist looks at RNA.
abstract: RNA, just another starting material? Nobel Laureate Tom Cech shows that with an education steeped in kinetics, thermodynamics, and molecular structure, and armed with the ability to synthesize molecules, the chemist is ideally suited to investigate RNA.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, Boulder, CO 80309-0596, USA. Thomas.cech@colorado.edu
authors.forename: Thomas R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Cech
mesh_terms: D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D012313:RNA