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Molecular biologist Jeff Coller joins Johns Hopkins As a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, he will hold appointments in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published March 16, 2021 It was during a research semester abroad in Stockholm, home of the Nobel Prize, that molecular biologist Jeff Coller discovered scientist was a viable career path for him, and it was a discovery that he calls magical. Just a few years earlier, biologists Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech had won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that RNA a building block of cellular function can start or accelerate its own chemical processes, an ability that had only been considered possible for proteins. Coller happened to be studying a gene with this form of autocatalytic RNA, and from there it all clicked.

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