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On the trail of travelling RNA

Molecular biologist Juan Pablo Tosar wants to understand how cells talk to each other.
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Juan Pablo Tosar separating extracellular RNA-containing complexes by size-exclusion chromatography in his lab

Juan Pablo Tosar is a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute and the University of the Republic of Uruguay in Montevideo, Uruguay. Pablo Albarenga for Nature

When you see someone wearing gloves, you tend to think they’re protecting themselves from something. In my laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay, we wear gloves to protect our samples from ourselves. We study RNA, and some of the enzymes in our skin can break those molecules down.

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Nature 592, 808 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01088-7

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