Science may speak with the authority of age, but it often moves on the shoulders of youth. Shane Crotty, a 26-year-old HHMI predoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been moving quickly. He just had a paper published in Nature Medicine on the discovery of a new mechanism that overwhelms RNA viruses, and his biography of noted biologist David Baltimore is about to be published. Says Crotty, "It's all very cool." continued...

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
May 2001, pages 8-9.
©2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute