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The first thing we learn in molecular biology class is the central dogma, presented with almost religious fervor: DNA begets RNA begets protein. Then, we’re all properly mortified when we learn of the heretical ways that viruses corrupt this natural flow of information, building RNA from RNA or, even worse, DNA from RNA. The reverence we feel is well founded; when we look at the molecular machines of the central dogma, we are looking at the heart of what keeps us alive, and structural science is revealing that these molecular machines are truly wonders of the subcellular world.
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Goodsell, D.S. (2016). The Central Dogma. In: Atomic Evidence. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32510-1_5
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