During Larry Nassar's sexual abuse trial and sentencing, victims' harrowing stories have brought to light Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a condition that is common among gymnasts, but poorly understood.
A mechanism by which different forms of mature mRNAs are generated from the same gene. Alternative splicing is a regulatory mechanism by which variations in the incorporation of the exons, or coding regions, into mRNA leads to the production of more than one related protein, or isoform. RNA interference.
All because of this one discovery called RNAi, with a little i at the end, which I'll explain later. You don't hear much about it, but RNAi is a really big deal. And the curious thing about it is the discovery of RNAi was an accident. It was a puzzle that appeared in a petunia. It was a purple petunia.