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   that it was very exceptional at the time.  Using small RNAs to interfere   
   with translation was already a working technology in animal research   
   that had been spawned by the plant discoveries.   
      
   The lab that I did my genomics post doc in was already using RNA   
   interference in chicken cell culture in 1993.  Finding out that animals   
   also used RNA interference like plants did wasn't that exciting because   
   researchers were already using RNA interference in animal tissue culture   
   to inhibit gene expression.  Their findings were not rejected, just did   
   not spawn much excitement.  Their findings were published in a very   
   important journal (Cell) and were never rejected by the scientific   
   community.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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