Cloning Dolly or finding evidence of life on Mars. Those are the sort of discoveries that set the world afire. But most scientists work far from the glare of publicity. Not that that stops them being as passionate about their work as any poker pro. Sometimes researchers rage and smash hypotheses over each others' heads. But fast forward a year, and everyone may be nodding in agreement again. This is the roller-coaster world Carol Featherstone found herself in when she caught up with the researchers who study how the information stored in a gene is released from its nuclear limbo.
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