![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107030905im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Yale Scientists Visualize the Machinery of mRNA Splicing
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April 4, 2008
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Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial self-splicing region of RNA.
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